Heading to China

So I will leave for China in two days. I think I need to bring quite some work with me in this trip.

So I finally let the rat go. I put it in a plastic drawer. Had to change water and food at least once a day. It was too much work for me already. Bisides, it made my room smell pretty bad. So I put it in the backyard and let it go. I believe it have been the dinner of a wild cat already. The law of nature, I think.

I commute to SF once every week to consult with that company that sells dog accessary. It is not a bad job at all. They actually are willing to counter-offer me a job, probably with a base salary higher than the one I have got. I will not take it. Maybe one day I will regret if it becomes the microsoft of the dog world one day.

My teaching is almost winding down. I have one last lecture on Nov 27, and then I have student presentations in the last three sessions. It was a fun experience. However, I do feel that social science majors attract some lazy-ass students who regard a techie major too harsh a reality. Also there are some kiss-ups.

And finally, the election. My department has a game of election prediction. Amazingly, I picked the whole senate correctly and bet that democrats will take 230 house seats (right now, democrats have 230, and still 9 undecided). So I easily win the pool, a total of 25 dollars. I guess I know American politics pretty well, plus some damn luck.