omg I am soo lazy these days. So first of all, three days ago I slept 20 hours and missed my meeting with the ILO，who went on a business trip the next day for a week, so now I have to wait forever to get my research approved. So I spent the next day writing my paper, and then had dinner with my dad's friend and his son who goes to Oxford. The next day I woke up really really late again, and decided to wait until after lunch to go to work, and then met up with my roommate's friend Lin li who goes to Beida and will be at Stanford this fall. I had to go to a concert at 7:30 at the new egg-shaped national theater to see Kevin perform with the Stanford Symphony Orchestra. In the middle, I was helping a colleague prepare for his English exam to study at Oxford - so there was another day wasted with no research done. Sigh.

So I went with XuZheng, the Oxford kid, to watch the concert at the National Theater. I was sooo late - it was embarassing because I had to make Kevin wait for me to get the tickets - and he was performing! Anyway - the Beijing metro is so slow and annoying! To switch lines it takes forever! I had to switch lines three times. So I asked this random guy - how do you get to the National Theater? and he told me and he was like, oh I am happening to go that direction as well, so he spent the entire like one hour talking to me and asking me for my contact information! He was nice enough, but it was still very weird. He asked me if I had a cell phone and I said no I didnt, and then later my cell phone started ringing and I had no choice but to answer it because it was kevin. Sigh... I told him I would send him a text msg later so that he would have my phone number...but I never plan to.

The National Theater is HUGE! And beautiful! And the seats are comfortable. I watched the Stanford Orchestra and Choir perform with the Jin Xing dance troup. Jin Xing is the first transexual in China - and her dancing and choreography is very modern - though I dont really understand much of it...

Anyway - and then I went to sleep around 12 am and didn't wake up until today at 4pm! Another day of research wasted.... I don't know when I'm going to get around to doing my research! And who knows how productive I will be over the weekend...