After teaching the "Do you like __/Yes I do" lesson I came back to the teachers room to check reddit grade home work, and the students came in for cleaning time ( Read more... )

Last weekend I was an extra in a Japanese movie. A call was sent out by the prefectural office for volunteers and I replied to it as fast as anything. I love movies so much I just could not pass up the opportunity to be in one, even is only as background filler. The movie is called Leonie, and is a biopic about Leonie Gilmour, mother of famous ( Read more... )

I do this to myself - wait too long to upload photos, which means when I finally do get to it I have to dedicate half a day to it. Bleh. But it's all done for now, though I actually do have some more on my camera and phone that need to go up. But this update catches me up to Kimono party with Sayaka, and goes all the way back to mid-May when my ( Read more... )

It's been a long time in coming, and has finally arrived. The Goodbyes. I've now had my Last Visit at 3 of my 14 schools, and it's getting harder at each one ( Read more... )

I went up to Osaka/Kyoto this past weekend for a long overdue visit with a good friend. Sayaka is the high school exchange student my family had hosted back in 1998. We've been friends ever since, but even though I'm in Japan now we still don't get to see one another that often. It had actually been 2 years between visits, so we planned to meet ( Read more... )

...was the title of a spam email I recently received, and wow! I love it ( Read more... )

My laptop has been kind of FUBAR lately, BSoDing waaaay too frequently. And sure, one could troubleshoot...or one could format and start again!! Yaaaay!!

I was also secretly hoping that even though my XP CD is in Japanese that I'd somehow magically be able to reinstall in English. Nope. Anyway, thanks to this ridonkulawesome walk-through by ( Read more... )

I have never been so proud of a student as I am right now ( Read more... )

So an interesting (?) factoid about myself I like to tell people is that I have a half-fake tooth. But that is no longer true! I now have a 3/4 fake tooth! Possibly even 4/5, not really sure ( Read more... )

A few choice images from my trip last weekend:


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