I haven't been doing anything interesting lately. I've been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer a lot, since it turns out that one of the Chinese teachers, Ariel, is a fan of American TV series, and as a whole bunch of them on DVD (dodgy pirate versions, of course - real copies are out of the price range of the average Chinese person, and I'm not sure they even sell them here).
I'm currently trying to compile POV-Ray from the Unix source, since the Mac maintainer seems to have a grudge against OS X and the Intel Macs (the docs recommend running under OS 9 for speed reasons!), and the native Mac version does not have a universal binary, nor does the PPC binary work under Rosetta, nor does the Mac source compile easily with Xcode. At least it's open-source, and I have the option of compiling it myself.
Now that the gas is on I've been cooking real food, instead of eating instant noodles every night. I've also been swapping ideas with Alex's girlfriend; she cooks a lot when she's here. I'm gradually getting a feel for Chinese cooking, and I taught her and Alex how to make rice fritters.
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