If there are three more hits to this blog from someone in Ukraine...

... before anyone from China visits it, then Ukraine will take over the 8th spot in the Connecticut Wit "Top 10 Blog Hits by Country List."

Needless to say, China... if you don't want to lose that coveted 8th spot, you know what you've gotta do!

And Latvia, at number 10, has a long way to go to catch either.

How far into my dotage (a ways off still, I think) before...

...I start believing she was my classmate,

that he was my president,

that I had lived on the twilight side of the hill (as opposed to the morning side of the mountain),

that, while I couldn't always get what I had wanted, when I had tried, I always got what I needed,

that I could, in fact, forget domani (since tomorrow never comes),

and that I had been either here:

or here:

or here:

or here (damn it)!   

Make Room for Mao

At lunch today, Min , our Administrative Support Coordinator (such a lousy title for such an invaluable colleague!), was recounting how much she and her husband have changed from their days in China. She recalled her family's first television (in 1968 or so) and how she had assumed everyone in China had such things. She told us that it was only when she saw how her classmates actually lived (very differently from her very nice life with the t.v. and refrigerator, etc) that she realized that she had to leave China.

This, naturally, led to a discussion but not of politics, human rights, or the redistribution of wealth but rather to what the heck they'd be watching on Chinese tv in the late 60s anyway.

I Love Mao

The Mickey Mao(se) Club

Mao 5-0

My Three Maos
The Mao Bunch

Leave it to Mao

I Dream of Mao
That Mao!

and Hogan's Heroes (because everybody loves making fun of the Nazis)