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From Kalon_Kakon
A) First, recommend to me:
1. a movie:
2. a book:
3. a musical artist, song, or album:
(B) I want everyone who reads this to ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want (Don't be shy).
(C) Then I want you to go to your journal, copy and paste this allowing your friends to ask you anything. -
Another apt tanka
働けど
働けどなお
我がくらし
楽にならざる。
ジッと手を見る
石川啄木
I work and
I work but
My life
Gets no easier.
I stare at my hands.
Ishikawa Takuboku
Although he was a middle school drop-out and otherwise led a peripatetic life of penury and failure, Ishikawa Takuboku is considered one of the greatest masters of the tanka form of Japanese poetry. Within two years of ( Read more... ) -
Goin' to Japan
Hey there to both of you who occasionally visit my journal. You probably already know by now that I'll be returning to Japan because Mapi's visa was mistakenly denied. I found out this morning that the embassy has sent off a request to clarify the matter through official channels, which means that my efforts to get them to correct their own ( Read more... ) -
Stolen from (Oops, I forgot where)
I am:
12%
Republican."You're a tax-and-spend liberal democrat. People like you are the reason everyone else votes for guys like Reagan or George W."
Are You A Republican?
I'm surprised I scored that high. -
Jobs
Of course, no job. But I had thought that I could always go back and work with the same construction company that used to employ me. No luck. I suck so bad that I can't even get hired as a day laborer. What will I do? -
Job searches suck
Whew. I just spent several hours working on a Japanese translation test in hopes of getting a good job with a Japanese company. Of course, I'd rather teach, but what're you gonna do? The only thing I hate more than working is looking for work. And the only thing worse than that is having no money. (If there are two things lower on the list ( Read more... ) -
Postremo die classum (Calling all Latinists)
Well, I finished my paper and translation, both due yesterday. Neither was as good as I would have liked, but now that they're done, I'm glad. I was pretty proud of the intro to my paper, since I worked hard on putting it into Latin. But since it took me so long just to write the first three paragraphs, I realized that it had been a mistake to ( Read more... ) -
All the dreams of Naniwa
つゆと落ち
つゆと消えにし
我が身かな
難波のことは
夢のまた夢
豊富秀吉
As the dew falls
As the dew disappears
Such is my life, I suppose.
All the the things of Naniwa
Were but a dream within a dream.Toyotomi Hideyoshi ( Read more... ) -
Failed Greek entry
I tried to transfer the entry from my paper journal for this date to this entry, but apparently my Greek font isn't supported on LiveJournal. It's just as well, since my poor Greek composition skills would have been on display for the world. Maybe I'll fool around with fonts when I have more time and try again later.
