Things I have just now learned from going through this stack of papers:

Udon is used when you eat in different time.

Sushi is made of rice and ingredients. Ohhh, so that's what that was!
But it is also made of natto. OH GAWD.

Re: Shamisen. This the trunk is made of a cat raw hide. Crap. I think this is true.

Re: Yukata. It is made of a workman. ( Read more... )

Man. Long story: I'm supposed to write some haiku for a lesson that some teacher (not one of mine) is doing. Her kids made little presentations in English about haiku (we watched recordings of these), and we're supposed to use those to make one and send it back to them ( Read more... )

That a clocks are to continue ticking. This is an update about a plane ticket, my visa, and grumbling. It's a boring update in which I ramble about plans for leaving Japan ( Read more... )

Look! Your cat is by the chair ( Read more... )

Breaking it down.
Thanks to Lily for putting this up.

I'm liveblogging!
4 on the Japanese scale in Ehime? 3 in Kagawa.

3 = "Felt by most people in the building. Some people are frightened. Dishes in a cupboard rattle occasionally. Electric wires swing slightly."

There was an outdoor concert in Marugame, and I went to it. Afterwards there was a party at the Marugame castle, which was 'lit up,' kind of and sort of. Pictures are ~ 400k.

Purupurin played. They were awesome. They didn't have CDs or anything, though, or I would have bought one.
LAME played after the Watanabes. The Watanabes are also awesome ( Read more... )

I have been looking at Amazon (.co.jp) to find myself a new usb memory stick. Flash memory is kicking down doors, people. I guess it's not exactly news, anymore. Flash memory has been snapping necks for the last two years ( Read more... )

I'm the best-kept secret on the internet!

I posted this. It was posted about here. Now it's on Joystiq! I'm going to count the seconds until Kotaku reposts it. This is, probably, the food chain for every news story featured on the 'big games blogs.' (Although Joystiq really does have a lot of original, cool content ( Read more... )

Shiun is having nine teachers leave. The extra four are year-contract workers, who I guess don't have tenure or whatever they'd call it in this case. Because their contract was only for a year to start with, they weren't listed on the big table of transfers.

Was that boring? Well, check this out! Extreme penmanship!