Ron's old supervisor took us out to lunch today at a Chinese restaurant. It was funny how much he expected it to be very foreign to us--of course it somewhat was. He ordered in rapid Mandarin and there were only a few familiar items (I couldn't name any for you, except that some were Dim Sum dumpling type things and others were wide rice noodles). But I at least acquitted myself with chopsticks reasonably well. Manda, I can't even remember how to say "a cat" in Mandarin anymore! Sigh. Anyway, it was a nice chance to visit and to talk practical job stuff and the rest.
I'm writing from GUGS today. No games for me! Sigh. There's a Descent game but no room for me and the only other thing around is chess. I don't know why we don't have the rest of the games today. I did put up a post in Witchfire though. Things are going strangely but interestingly in my weird online rpg. My assassin just caught another assassin at the opera, my cook has just been visited by a queen, my warlord has won a battle and now he and his men are partying, and my queen is getting news that should lead to her actually claiming her throne at last. Great fun. Meanwhile at Hogwarts (as of yesterday), my poor little Slytherin is having crises of conscience that are only going to get worse as time goes on. She's trying to be nice to the Mud--er, Muggle-borns. But it's so hard (as well as politically inexpedient for a Slytherin). Other than the fact that her best friend is in Gryfindore (oh the shame!), things aren't going too bad for her though. The Gryfindores on the other hand are getting in lots and lots of trouble. Hehe.
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It's "mao" (cat). Rhymes with "how," "now," and "cow"; not so much with "brown". ^.^ The tone is like singing the word all on one note--easy to do even if it feels a little silly when you aren't used to Chinese.
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