the long silence

my apologies for the long silence. i've been in beijing, where the state has walled out blogspot (but not, inexplicably live journal). i'm just back in berkeley for surgery, packing and preparing to move my life back to china, where i'm happiest.

i plan to relocate my blog tolive journal and will post the link shortly, as well as concoct an update that doesn't take me a month to compose.
yes, a lot's been happening.