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Tonight, I sit in front of my computer screen pondering how best to spend the final two hours of my evening. As the sun rose and fell, I languished in indecision. What should I have done? What could I do? The essay I wish to write does not write itself, nor am I finding the task any easier by penning words onto a blank sheet of paper. The ink runs smoothly out of the pen, yet nothing I write satisfies what I intend to say. The computer screen waits patiently, calling for my attention when I feel my mind drift away from the task at hand towards thoughts of others and what they might be doing. Perhaps others are accomplishing more than I have been with the time allotted today. Perhaps they do more anyway and I am the pauper in living a full life. I sit here, arse in a dying cushion, flattened by the weight of my body pressing against the polyester filling. I ought to get up and walk around a bit to bring blood back into my legs, and to also fetch myself a much needed glass of water. Dehydration can be a nasty affair. The computer screen continues to shine, adding no more and no less inspiration than the sheet of paper I have been scribbling on. Each Chinese character forms a block of stylised lines interlocking into a single block shape. I have written a few into an equally sparse number of sentences. Could I answer the question posed by the text? In Chinese? It seems that my language proficiency lacks the umph I desire. Would one year in 北京 resolve this issue? Probably, but there still remains much work to be done elsewhere and before arriving there in late August.

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