Worst part of week over! Did kick-ass on the presentation and my kanbun readings for this week. :D Now to find motivation for the next 36 hours.

To Do Before I Leave Thursday Morning:
-Edit resume for scholarship
-Edit letter of intent for scholarship
-Put all the pieces together and drop off before class
-Finish two articles and a few dozen stories for ( Read more... )

Already a month into my second semester here.  It's going by so fast!  It's certainly a lot busier than last semester, but I'm enjoying my classes a lot more.

EASIA 599- Historiography of Premodern Japan
This is my "read until my eyes bleed" course.  We have two books a week or so to read, and spend two hours discussing them.  Additionally, I need to ( Read more... )

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope everyone had a great New Year's Eve if you did anything special, and if not I hope you were able to relax and have a good time anyway.  My family usually doesn't do anything, but we ended up going to a party hosted by some of my parent's friends from Boy Scouts.  We had a great time, and were right across from the ( Read more... )

Once again I am stealing this idea from terrorcandy in making a 2011 music mix.  The rules are simple: I've chosen one photo and one song from each month of this year, summing up my experience.  Here's my 2010 mix.

( Music choices and photos! )

I'm really enjoying being home.  Even though I had a fantastic time in Japan last winter, it still sucked not being home for the holidays.  Thankfully, Alberta is a hell of a lot closer (and has much cheaper flights,) so coming home wasn't a problem.  It's been pretty chill so far; I've been hanging with my dad and the dog (Soupy is so cute!) and ( Read more... )

Long time no update.  But of course now I'm doing my finals, so an update is necessary for procrastination purposes.

Those who follow me on twitter already know this, but I had a lot of roommate drama, and so I moved a couple weeks ago.  I'm still in the same apartment complex run by the university, but it's a different apartment and a new roommate ( Read more... )

One of the things I've really loved so far this semester is how well the things I'm learning in my classes are fitting together.  Take my EASIA graduate seminar and EASIA 101 (which I'm TAing)- for the seminar, I've read Orientalism, "The Invention of Tradition," and a number of other texts that form basics for studies of East Asia.  In 101, these ( Read more... )

*Experienced my first Canadian Thanksgiving; my building had a potluck with ham, potatoes, turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, pie, etc. There is already plans among the American students in the building to have our own Thanksgiving potluck next month, so I get two Thanksgivings this year. :D (I am okay with this since I didn't get ( Read more... )

Today I was hanging around campus working on my readings for EASIA 598, the graduate course everyone in my department has to take. It's essentially an overview of the various disciplines within the field of East Asian Studies. Thus far we've done Orientalism, some works on the problems with Eurocentric studies in the Humanities, Asia's place in ( Read more... )

( Just so I can keep track )