Nice, laid back weekend

So I really took it easy this weekend, and ended up going to an Indian restaurant on Saturday with about 10 people from the ShanghaiExpat group instead of hitting up the bars early. After dinner we got invitations to the grand opening of a new bar downtown called "The Den" and got nice couch seats plus free drinks. Bowed out of the impromptu bar crawl and headed home early so I could get some sleep and be ready for today's adventure at the famous Fabric Market. It's three huge floors of vendors selling every kind of fabric you can imagine and they'll tailor any piece of clothing you want. As long as you're willing to put some serious time into the bargaining, you can get some amazing deals. The only thing I picked up was two meters of a nice cotton which will eventually be a dress shirt. I did find some really nice material for a suit but it was towards the end of the day and I didn't have the hour it would probably take to get to the price I wanted, or the exact design of the suit I want... but it's not going anywhere, so I'll try again another weekend.

The big news is that I finally found a good website for posting my pictures that I can actually access from China. So this evening, while watching Superman Returns, I uploaded the first batch of photos to sterny.smugmug.com. There'll be more soon, but the upload speed is miserable in my apartment so I could only get so many up in one sitting.

The other big news, which I have been waiting on for about 4 weeks, is that my primary med school application through AMCAS (the American Medical College Application Service) should be verified Monday or Tuesday, at which point I will be able to start filling out the secondary applications for the many, many schools I am applying to this time around. As soon as the process gets underway, I'll start putting regular updates on the blog. Well, it's late and I suspect I have a long day of surveying tomorrow, so I'm off to bed.