Half-Way Day: China Strikes Back

So, I am 90 days in with 90 days to go and I am feeling 

pretty comfortable. I think to myself, "Ryan, you have all

of the luxuries of home that you are used to. If you want

Pop-Tarts or Dr.Pepper you know where to get them. You

have this whole thing under control" rather smugly as I

pound down the last of my Dr.Pepper reserves. So I set 

out to the City Shop, where I fully expect to find a small

cache of Dr.Pepper lining the soda aisle. I march into the

store, excreting my Dr.Pepper Bravado. I arrive to the

stand where I have found my precious cola one multiple

occasions in the past, only to find my prize missing. In 

its place, 4 Diet Dr. Peppers mixed into a mountain of

Sprite and A&W Root Beers. In my frenzied disbelief, I

grab a Cherry Coke and a Vanilla Coke in an attempt to 

make up for the lack of the real thing.

Hubris is my fatal flaw. Today China took advantage of

that.

90 more days of Shanghai. 90 more days of Desideratum.