do you think that it's easy to blow up a dog?

I'm not quite sure how it happened but I received my econ 101 grade today and it was miraculously good. I guess I did better on that final than I thought -- considering how I was going into the test with only a C-/D+ average and came out much, much better.

Or maybe the rest of the class had been floundering too.

So turns out I need a student visa to visit China and that I need to travel to the city to obtain one soon since it takes them 1-2 weeks to process the form (at best) and I'm 3-4 weeks from leaving. I'm hoofing back to the city today to visit the Consulate of the PR of China (it's near the Intrepid Air/Space Museum for future reference) and get this visa thing rolling.