Typhoon 8 Day

Super cute cat outside this restaurant near my apartment building. There are quite a few stray cats in HK I've noticed, as well as cats adopted by street-level stores.

Today is the fourth day in HK this summer of typhoon signal no. 8, which means no work/school. And it's oddly nice this time, because our publication was supposed to be done by today and it was major crunch time, but because we knew today would be no work, everyone worked at breakneck speed yesterday (Thurs) to finish everything. So September issue is done and we get a three-day weekend yay. So I can blog and listen to the Mix and eat junk food and read and not be stressing (except about the weekend which I find SO stressful. Every weekend should be typhoon 8).

Shite, I love listening to the Mix stream in the morning here, meaning nighttime in Chicago, because there's no talk. I love mainstream American pop rock. Like just now they played Spill Canvas's "All Over You." I like that kind of song. And Rihanna's Umbrella, I used to hate it, but I love it now because it reminds me of... I dunno, it makes me happy. Just now they played Viva La Vida, and I actually know multiple people who are obsessed with that song. OK, now it's Pink. I love Pink, because I'm a dork. Ooh now it's Lifehouse, whom I only have lukewarm feelings toward. I mean yeah their songs are "nice" but nauseatingly cheesey and technically simplistic.

People send me all kinds of random stuff at work (by courier! People use courier here like it's free or something. I know, it's because HK's so small and labor is cheap, but still). A few days ago I got, of all things, VODKA. Snow Queen Vodka to be specific, which is from Kazakhstan. Well I can probably tell you everything there is to know about Snow Queen Vodka from Kazakhstan now, so it worked, but the thing about those little bottles of alcohol are they're so cute. Miniatures rock! Ooh yeah, that's me at work, I am a Post-It fiend.