This week's Travel section in the Sunday New York Times features another Shanghai article. Wow, two Shanghai features in a week, must be a new record. Funny how this was this week's "Frugal Traveler" article, yet they managed to squeeze in a stop at M on the Bund. I guess I'm just to poor right now, but I find nothing frugal about M. Can't wait to finally score a job. I'm not really a big fan of unemployment. People are buying me dinners and I feel like a big leech. Sheesh. By the way, the end of that Times piece mentions the Shanghai pajama phenomenon, which the Associated Press expounded on about a week ago. Hmm...it seems like I'm turning this into a blog of Shanghai media coverage. (And damn I think. I should've written that pajama piece!)

Looks like I might be scoring an apartment soon. I saw an older place that I liked off of Gao An Road in the French Concession. It's a short walk from the Shanghai Library and right by the subway station and a strip of restaurants and bars on Hengshan Lu. Got some issues to address with the landlord, but it's looking good. And even if it doesn't work out, it looks like there are similar units floating around in the neighborhood, which is so much more interesting than living on Siping Road (aka "The Boulevard of Death"). Never live in a place facing a 7-lane boulevard. Crossing the street to catch a cab was like playing Frogger.