I’m going home in 3 days! I can’t wrap my head around not having been State-side in more than a year. But alas, I’ll be home for Christmas in one of the most anticipated Christmases in the Yueh family history. My to-do list:

• Presents. Check! All bought.
• Money. Check! Converted. (Side note: a shit load of cash isn’t so cool when you’ve spent a year paying for really expensive things in cash. Has anyone seen 19,800 anything in denominations of 100? It’s amazing.)
• Apartment. 3/4 check! Mostly cleaned. Can’t have it dirty when the new year arrives.
• Christmas cards. 1/4 check. I’m in the process of converting non-Christmas cards into Christmas cards.
• Packing. No check :( But at least I got my suitcase back.

Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg is in Beijing. Shouldn’t he be banned since Facebook is? Especially if he might be coming here to … spy*? Just add him to the list of important people who have recently visited. Off the top my head, Dianne von Furstenberg and Anna Wintour.

*By spy, I mean research stealthily, which is what Time magazine and Forbes’ Oliver Chiang speculated.