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Are you ready to learn everything you never thought you'd need to know about Chinese Vampires? Good. The "Jiang Shi" , written in Chinese as 僵尸 or as 僵屍 in "Traditional Chinese," literally means "stiff corpse." Technically, Jiang Shi are closer to Chinese counterparts of a Westerner's image of a zombie than a vampire. How to identify them? Well, their most obvious feature is their mode of transportation - because of the rigor mortis in their legs, Chinese Vampires hop. It's almost comical, until they KILL YOU! Some other interesting Chinese vampire traits: they are blind and have no knowledge, they track people by smelling their breath (this means holding your breath keeps them from seeing you - kinda like T-Rex's from Jurassic Park.) They chase people trying to steal their "po" or life force of some type. How to fight them you ask? Well Taoist monks can write spells on rice parchment, and stick them to their forehead with sticky ...

Woo! Break is almost here, with the exception of a Microeconomics final I'm severely dreading. So I thought I'd post the plans I'm considering for over break : 1.) Saturday, celebrate Chinese New Years with Grandpa and his Tai chi class. I try to go to this every year, grandpa's allowed to bring a guest and they all remember me from when I went and visited their class back when I was like 7! Though this time its during the day, and at a Thai restaurant, hrmm . 2.) Read Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope which mom bought me for 2005 Christmas. It looks nice on my book shelf, but like many of those books, I really do mean to get around to reading them. 3.) Party with the gang, which seems to include returning to Akron a sure-heck-of-a-lot. 4.) This weekend, Christmas-up the house! After the Saturday night uber -cleaning (u.u; why can't my family clean on their own...) I'll put up all the Christmas decorations, and maybe even get the tree - or maybe go Sund...