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So my day has mostly consisted of spending lots of money. I reserved a copy of Harry Potter from a bookstore around here... it's amazing how international the HP thing is! Which is, of course, to my advantage. I can't believe all the Taiwan bookstores have basically already sold out of OotP, even though they're only stocking the English copy right now! I guess it's kind of like me wanting to learn Japanese so I could read manga as soon as they came out. So hopefully I will have a copy by the 26th, in the nice Bloombury edition, which I like much better anyhow. I don't quite get why the American publishers felt as though they had to change certain Britishisms -- I read stuff like Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, Five Children and It, and etc, etc, as a kid, and while the British words sometimes confused me, they never really put me off reading a book. Well, with the exception of the rendition of Martha's accent in The Secret Garden. But then, I read Little Princess and decided to pick up the Secret Garden again anyway.

Speaking of which, I wonder why so much of the good kid lit out there seems to be British? L.M Montgomery, C.S. Lewis, Philip Pullman, Lloyd Alexander, Ursula K. LeGuin, Frances Hodgson Burnett, tons and tons more... or maybe I was only given mostly British stuff?

Anyhow, I want to post a picture of me and my new straightened hair in my funny, girly, very Taiwan-like clothes, except I can't use my university webspace anymore. Sigh.

I also did much avoiding of the fact that I have to get a job. Mostly, it just reminds me of all the things I can't do.

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Speaking of which, I wonder why so much of the good kid lit out there seems to be British? L.M Montgomery...

Eep! I feel kinda bound by patriotism to point out that Montgomery was Canadian. She was even born in Prince Edward Island, in a little village called Clifton (later New London). I should know, I visited her house when I was 11 on a family road trip!

But yeah, Lewis and Frances Hodgeson Burnett were two of my favourite authors when I was a kid. I didn't start reading L'Engle (hey, an American!) until I was older. So mostly British authors, don't know why...

Is it strange being back in Taiwan? Or have you visited often enough during your uni years that it doesn't seem like a big change? Know what you mean about getting a job. Handing out resumes in a no-fun ongoing process :(

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So know Montgomery is Canadian too! Silly me... her books made me desperately want to visit Prince Edward Island.

Being in Taiwan actually feels pretty normal... I come back here about twice a year, and the strangest thing is, I think I've pretty much gotten over culture shock going to and from NJ to California to Taiwan.

And resumes suck... anything that is supposed to summarize everything you can do in a page sucks.