This is my little collection of Mandarin Chinese textbooks and dictionaries, which I make use during, and sometimes in between, evening classes at UCL.
Matt, like you, is a certain sort of monkey. Monkey-brain is a fiddly brain, and that's not always good.
The essence of repulsive monkey is
Step Back, Repulse Oppenent, Keep the Advantage. This is about his Tai Chi, other physical stuff, learning Chinese, and whatever else his brain wants to tell you.
He's got a blog of oddness at
drift words, some work
in Double Loop and somewhere
in space. Contact: monkey AT samsara.plus.com