Another day at the desk, making sure the computer doesn’t get lonely.
Did my taxes, read my book, ate a salad lunch in preparation for a swimsuit vacation, haven’t cracked my Japanese yet.
Looked at my giant pack list, which got me sort of excited, but not past the swimsuit hurdle. Ugh, why do I have to […]
Came to school this bright lovely morning to find a parking lot full of bright baby junior high students, all ready for their entrance exams. Some of you will be mine, little kiddies, come to me!
Creepiness aside, I had a good eyebrow raising moment this morning when the vice principal made a special announcement during […]
Winter in Japan is really cold, and next month will be the worst. Don’t be fooled by the fact that it’s an island in the Pacific. Northern Hokkaido nearly touches Russia, and even the south gets snow.
A little snow, what am I whining about, right? Before you start saying I’m losing my Midwestern edge, […]
I was home for Christmas this year. It was the first time I’ve been home since coming to Japan a year and a half ago. Since I bought my tickets I had been awaiting this trip anxiously. I was excited to go home, and nervous that somehow I might have gotten old, or that too […]
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 […]
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 […]
Monday June 27th
13:10pm
Today doubts and wild self-questioning swept the area
in reaction to an unforseen action taken by scholastic
administrators. In a sudden burst of inspiration, a
respected teacher boldly closed the windows of the
staffroom at a local high school, and turned on the
air-conditioning, even though July will not begin for
another three days. This move came as […]
This past Saturday I played Ultimate frisbee. I guess it had been a few years since the last time I got roped into playing fetch, and it was sounding kind of fresh and fun instead of like a game only your dog is dumb enough to get tricked into.
Anyway, the warm-up was fine, even fun, […]