So now my manager thinks I'm weird, great. Actually, she said, "You are very mystery," but I'll take that ( Read more... )

So here's the rather more interesting Green Day lyrics on all the karaoke tracks here for some reason:

I went to a shrink
To analyze my dreams,
She says it's lack of sex
That's bringing me down.
I went to a whore,
He said my life's a bore,
So quit my whining 'cause
It's bringing her down...
They have trouble with he/she, since in Japanese the word ( Read more... )

A
ll over the earth
the train will stop here.
I dropped the apple.
The fight was over.

You've all heard of found art, right? Well, this is found poetry. Chris made up these phrases to test a hypothesis* we were arguing as to when we say "thee" and when "thuh," but Kieran and I decided these actually sounded pretty cool in that post-modern, Gertrude ( Read more... )

My partial solution to my inability to study by rote drill...
http://lrnj.com/

Saturday was a dual celebration...one, our only Irish Gotenba-ite is leaving for Tokyo (today I think), so we threw him an expensive farewell nite. There were even fireworks...all Gotenba is glad to be rid of him! Actually, we have no idea what the fireworks were for, but you know, correlation entails causation. I was also celebrating my own ( Read more... )

(not exactly where I was originally going with this...my most depressing piece in Japan so far ( Read more... )

[see "Brett Easton Ellis ( Read more... )

Deleting defunct email addresses from your address book has got to be one of the more depressing activities of the electronic age. It's like deleting memories, leaving scraps and wet chunks of yourself behind on the conveyor belt of ever-consecutive nows. The past is such a difficult concept, which as usual we take so for granted. As a contrasting ( Read more... )

Here waiting for those fleeting moments when ( Read more... )

Must be brief, since I have students coming any moment. More later maybe. Akkochan is fleeing to San Diego for nine days tomorrow, leaving me more or less bereft of texting companions. Much more to say about her, too, and certian phone conversations last night. Running is going well...not quite to my 5 a week goal, but I'm more fit than I've been ( Read more... )