I found several awesome world literature anthologies in the library. I haven't been this exciting about reading in a long time ( Read more... )

I'm :so: excited someone finally posted this video. It's the first Bollywood song I ever heard, and I used to listen to this particular remix all the time. I had never seen the video.

Also apparently I like really like reggae and dancehall, at least at 1 in the morning.

haha airline food is funny

People talk about things like "language abuse" and "destroying our language" and most of the time I think they're being unreasonable ( Read more... )

I just found this site, and looked up what song was No. 1 in Australia on my birthday.

It was "Never Gonna Give You Up."

Haha.

I read the following argument in a comment to a BBC blog entry ( Read more... )

I suppose that I do not fully comprehend the intricacies of the Japanese concept of meiwaku, or, "causing trouble to the people around you."

I guess it didn't occur to the person in the room next to me that practicing electric guitar at 1 in the morning might be a little bit rude.

I am trying to make a list of all the people I really, really want to get at least some kind of souvenir for.

The list is over 100 people.

This should be interesting.

Oh hell yeah!I agree that Ms. Sigurdardottir's sexuality is more or less completely irrelevant to the matter at hand, but it wouldn't hurt the status of gay people around the world if a gay prime minister could lead Iceland out of its financial crisis. Also I would love to live in Iceland one day, so it would be nice if things there stopped ( Read more... )

On the other hand, as exhausting, frustrating, and sometimes downright unpleasant as they might be, for better or for worse I am interacting with Japanese college students in their language on their terms, and consequently these are the events that make my experience in Japan authentic, and they are the reason I came here in the first place ( Read more... )