Amidst a seemingly endless gust that is sweeping throughout my dorm and the slight sound of leaves scraping against each other as they only do in Autumn, I ran outside to grab myself some 煎饼, because, well, dinner tonight wasn’t really enough (it consisted of 2 bowls of rice and a plate of this nasty chicken dish that went mostly uneaten–totally undercooked). In any case 煎饼 is this crepe-like creation that is a concoction of eggs, lettuce, and crispy “stuff”–I don’t know what it is. This object has been a favorite of mine ever since I’ve come over here…to 北大. They didn’t have these things around the 北师大 campus, which would have irked me at the time had I known that such a marvelous fruit of human creativity actually existed.

In any case, the weather today is the coldest that it has been during my entire time in China, hands down (just to keep this in perspective, I’m not a strong supporter of the “hands down” construction, but this time it just calls for it due to the extremeness of the situation). On another note, Google spell-check thinks that extremeness is a word, yet awesomeness is not. This bothers me.

Some people have asked me for my address here, so here it is (for all the world to see):

Dan Loewenherz
中华人民共和国北京
北京大学廖凯原楼240室
北大耶鲁联合本科项目
邮编：100871

If you can’t read it, comment.

Dan