The Azul's summer vacations (夏休み）are officially OVER. I received the first mail informing about the next Seminar class for my group next week. My sensei returned to Japan yesterday. So, again it's study, write, work, sleep. Ah, and eat. Do laundry. Hopefully, make a backpack.

Quoties from Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:

"Please, would you tell me," said Alice, a little timidly, ... "why your cat grins like that?"
"It's a Cheshire cat," said the Duchess, "and that's why."

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked ( Read more... )

Your results:
You are Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman
75%
Green Lantern
70%
Iron Man
65%
Supergirl
65%
Superman
65%
Spider-Man
60%
Robin
47%
Catwoman
45%
Batman
45%
The Flash
40%
Hulk
40%

You are a beautiful princess
with great strength of character.


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I made a slideshow with the photos from the Japanese farm house where the students made their field practice. I took the photos today. It was sunny and nice, unlike the actual Friday and Saturday when the practice took place, which were cloudy and cooooold ( Read more... )

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News link: Hands off Christmas, say religious leadersI found this on the news today (link above). I think it's about time people realize Christmas has CHRIST written in it and there would be no Christmas without Him. Sure there are a number of adjacent holidays and formerly pagan symbols mixed and lining along, but Christmas is Christmas, still. ( Read more... )

One of my friends, a very dear childhood friend, has a learning disability. It's not a very severe one as far as I know, but her two siblings always called her a moron. Her father was desperate to help her, but sometimes he would just end up yelling at her if she could not study at the minimum speed she was required to learn. They are our neighbors ( Read more... )

Random update, completely unrelated to my latest adventures, but anyway .-.; it's sorta awesome. A robot maker called David Hanson has built a robot he called "Zeno," which looks like Astroboy c.c; sorta. He has better "hair" .-.; but one never knows... Maybe it'll fly sometime. For now, "Zeno" blinks owlishly at peoples and tries to read your face ( Read more... )

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c___c; I'm about to call the cellphone company, ask for the Billing department and tell to whoever gets my call, "Your Soul is MINE!" and snatch it. I really, really feel like doing that. I don't know what I'd do with their soul, but one always can find a use for random things. I might figure something out for it.

( Craziness of the day )