A Bolt from the Blue
<p>Two months ago I wrote that it was a terrible time to need to write a newsletter. I’m not sure it’s gotten much better. Life progresses on fairly normally. I’m counting down the minutes until our winter break as I’ve done many semesters before. I’m <a href="https://twitter.com/GrahamMOliver/status/1344120728963010560" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">struggling</a> with lesson plans, test writing, Chinese class, exercising, eating healthily, maintaining friendships. In short, everything feels like normal. Then, a bolt from the blue, I remember about what’s going on in the US: a pandemic, a refusal to take a pandemic seriously, an insurrection, a maybe refusal to take an insurrection seriously.<br />
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In fact, lately life feels like a series of bolts from the blue. Walking along, minding my own business, and then suddenly being struck by the thought of a bookcase left behind in the US, or the thought that we’ve already been here a year and a half, </p>
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