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I’m back in Houston, guys, so that means:

1. Unlimited Facebooking (The Facebook checking opportunities in China were few and far between, especially because access to the site is sporadically quota’d.)

2. Unlimited Youtubing (I’ve never been that huge of a YouTuber, but since its completely banned in China, it makes every second of that new Bo Burnham song more enjoyable–don’t go checking; I’m JK. He hasn’t updated for four months.)

3. Unlimited Blogging (Theoretically, this could really happen, but as I clearly updated more often in China when I had limited access to the more luxurious aspects of living at home, I’m not sure more Internet time will actually yield more blog entries. We’ll see.)

Alas, folks, I have digressed before even biting into the meat of my original blog idea. Mother Nature, was it? Ah, yes. On July 22, 2009, I witnessed a complete solar eclipse. The next one will occur in 2132, some 100 years from now, so I imagine I gots a one-up on you guys. Since I’m such a nice girl, I figure some video action will be a nice stand-in for the real deal–provided you weren’t somewhere in the eclipse’s path from India to Japan.

(Okay, so I tried to upload my vids, but somehow keep getting this “file too large” message. Will upload when I figure out how to deal with this.)

::EDIT  17/09/2009::

Moving on.

The second wondrous gift of Mistress Gaia came in the form of a rodent creature. Imagine my surprise when after two months abroad, I arrive home to find my car covered with mice/rat droppings. Four hours of hardcore vacuuming and severe Wet Wiping later, I emerge from a poop-free car. The culprit? A bag of rabbit food (for my bunny, Basil) that I forgot to take out of the trunk. Apparently the pest had claimed my entire car from wheel (the greatest concentration of feces was on the driver’s seat) to trunk as its domain.

Props to that little parasite. Not many creatures can extract four hours of my life without agonizing retribution.

Time for bed. I’m slowly getting over this jet-lag thing.