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Jul. 19th, 2007 07:44 pmA year ago today, I was in China. Exactly what I was doing is harder to pin down, lost to the complications of the dateline, but over the two middle days of the week I visited a Ming Emperor's tomb, struggled up part of the Great Wall, and wandered around the Summer Palaces, all in the sticky, smoggy heat of Beijing's summer.
Today was far less adventurous, but not unpleasant; I spent a quiet day at work trying to un-mangle conference-paper manuscripts. And in just over a week I'll be on my way home -- a trip so straightforward, compared to last summer's odysseys, that I am almost completely relaxed about it. No side-trips, no trying to pack for six weeks and two countries in one suitcase, no airport connections, just cab-van-plane-train-cab-train-cab-home, and the same in reverse a couple of weeks later, if all goes well.
Today was far less adventurous, but not unpleasant; I spent a quiet day at work trying to un-mangle conference-paper manuscripts. And in just over a week I'll be on my way home -- a trip so straightforward, compared to last summer's odysseys, that I am almost completely relaxed about it. No side-trips, no trying to pack for six weeks and two countries in one suitcase, no airport connections, just cab-van-plane-train-cab-train-cab-home, and the same in reverse a couple of weeks later, if all goes well.
