Here's a great idea:

Leave your socks on your radiator when you go to take a shower so that when you come back, you can put them on and they are nice and warm. Like instant just-came-out-of-the-drier warmness, when you don't have a drier.

I know you were all worried, but you can breathe easy now: I registered successfully for my last semester of classes, though as J knows it took my cursing and threatening of NYUHome for this to happen. As for my current classes, Chinese is being annoying with a tingxie test everyday this week, but luckily I quite enjoy my Environmental class. My prof is cute and so so knowledgeable, so that he can actually field all of our random questions on the situation here in China. Also he is hopefully seeing if we can take a weekend trip to Tianjin (Beijing's "sister city" a one hour train ride to the east) so we can check out their environmental measures. That would be coooool. Especially if it were subsidized by our program (fingers crossed).

Oh yes, so next semester I am taking: History of Vietnam, a Marlowe seminar, Travel Writing, and an EAS class on Japanese literature from the 1990's. Hopefully all goes well. I am, most predictably, excited about the literature classes and not so much about the stupid Marlowe seminar I have to take. Also starting to get anxious about what I'll do in terms of an internship/job for the spring, seeing as all I hear are scary things about the economy sucking and people getting laid off. Especially in publishing...

Which brings me to my last point: I want books for Christmas! This notice goes out to family and friends. I would buy some here but I'm already concerned about the weight of my suitcases going back, so I must refrain. So yeah, support Amazon or B&N or an indie bookstore and thereby support publishers, authors, agents, and my possibly future career... and of course make me happy for Christmas :) (I realize I might be early in posting this request but it was on my mind so I thought I'd put it out there before I forget).