Nice little Saturday

In the end I never ended up going out last night. While 10 kuai ($1.25) Cuervo Tequila shots is a hell of a draw, I did the shockingly responsible thing and stayed in, finishing drafts of 16 of the 22 essays I have to do for this weeks nine secondary applications to medical school There were a few that were just variations on "what have you been doing since you graduated?", but I'm still impressed with myself and so I rewarded myself by opening a nice bottle of wine and watching the last 5 episodes of Season 2 of "Arrested Development" and then the movie "Rent." Both were good, but kinda opposite ends of the movie genre spectrum. Woke up pretty early this morning and cleaned up the apartment, spent some time online trying to figure out how to get a visa to travel to Vietnam as there are no Vietnamese consulates in Shanghai... the options are actually disturbingly slim, either travel to Beijing to get the visa, or take your chances with a letter of invitation made by a company here and try and apply for a temporary visa when you arrive in Ho Chi Min City.

Heading out soon to run some errands... drop off dry cleaning and buy food (I am now down to just two cans of tuna fish, rice that I can't figure out how to cook properly, a variety of condiments and peanut butter... oh and of course beer, a bottle of wine, and some Jim Beam, but only Keith Richards can live off of a pantry like that.) I am also heading to Malone's at 6 pm to watch my very first Rugby match and have it explained to me, I expect fairly colorfully, by a Brit and an Aussie. This could get messy.