A post over at O’s made me think about a comment I made yesterday to my Japanese co-teacher. In our English Reading class we read and filled in a worksheet I made about the history of Thanksgiving. After the Mayflower and the Pilgrims and three days of feasting with their Injun friends and the happy […]
Last night, in the absence of having Voyager episodes to watch or email to check, I cleaned my apartment (more like shuffled things into different piles) and made ready for winter (dug my kerosene heater out of the media equivalent of a snowdrift).
I also cooked dinner, for the first time in awhile. I’ve been skipping […]
My computer was crap. It never worked quite right and always made funny sounds. One day the hard drive started making an interesting clicking noise.
I thought it might be trying to tell me something so instead of backing up important information I restarted it one too many times and now it is fried.
Fuck.
And then […]
I woke up last Thursday and started puking, and puked my guts out for half a day. At noon the shit fairy came to visit and stayed until Sunday. It was a wasted weekend, and now I’m back to basically normal digestion but I am coughing up the nasty snotty phlegm of last winter and […]
If there is one thing that makes otherwise liberal and free-thought advocating folks bond with just about anybody else, that would be hating vegetarians. I kinda get it and I kinda don’t, but mostly I just wonder what gets people so annoyed about my stating a preference that doesn’t infringe on their liberties.
I have […]
And Happy Halloween. As my students now know, ãƒ?ãƒï½³ï½ªãƒ¼ãƒ³ã?¯ã‚·ãƒ¢ãƒŠå…ˆç”Ÿã?®å¤§å¥½ã??ã?ªholidayã? 。I celebrated with friends at a local bar, with about the best music I’ve heard at a DJ’d event in Japan.
I was a pirate. Unfortunately there were enough pirates for a respectably sized crew. For the record, I am in Japan, besides for web surfing I am […]