Sports Kit, Good News For a Friend, Realization

Went for a jog today with the nike sports kit, about 1 hr up steep hill downhill, felt good after drinking etc last night. Thoughts on the future etc, not much in general, on the creative side trying to figure out how to make work situation more interesting. Thoughts etc, on dividing work into specific compartments focused on individual problems, rather than being overly spread out as a possible way of addressing more difficult problems etc.

On the exercise + effects on reality front, again notice that I am meeting many more different people extremely strange, since getting back into rapid foot motions. Notion of being able to cram a lot more things into a small space at the moment which is useful.

Important notice, old friend of mine from teaching days 4 years ago or so, is moving to Philadelphia, he’s chinese, never been to the us, but as seems to be the case seems to speak better english than many of the people who have lived abroad and come back – sea turtles – maybe its just natural talent, or living far away from the object of his interest has allowed him to magnify it. In any case, he has managed to accomplish something rather rare and new in going to teach Chinese in the US for a year, and it will an peculiar comparison to the treatment of foreign teachers coming to China, like zoo monkeys/ kings of some sort.

Final note of value, based on conversations etc, starting to realize that the key to everything in China may be based on the the ability to entertain people for long periods of time, my experiences in this are limited, but when I run into business-ish types here they generally tend to throw me throw what seems to be a pre-manufactured amusement park of meetings with people which is slightly unnatural and which seems very unpractical at the time, the startling realization when you see their true planning face behind the spectacle being present, that they are likely honing their entertainment skills. Whether you can classify this as good or bad, matters not, but it obviously requires slightly complex thinking which was set in the beginning at some point and than followed.