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Posted to lj_bizI'm sorry you are sensitive to the words "selling out" but that is how it does appear; you need the money, so LiveJournal, like television news and my local public schools, becomes just another commodity that will gradually be subsumed by corporate values. I suspected it was inevitable that this would happen once LJ was sold, because ( Read more... )

Gods I'm frustrated. My new Japanese teacher speaks very FAST and pushes the class fast, and I'm having trouble. When I talked to her she acknowledged crowding and few help resources (a half hour tutoring session for 35 students?), but she feels Americans get stuck in habitually slow speech if they aren't forced to speed up. She said I could always ( Read more... )

Rented a U-Haul to get my stuff, finally closing the storage space down after 10 years! Now my new, clean room is full of dusty old boxes, but I have bedding, warm clothes, anime and books again, including all my Japanese dictionaries. Just in time for 2nd-year Japanese.

My favorite new book is Making Sense of Japanese by Jay Rubin - great sense ( Read more... )

I have a place to live! It was pretty grungy, but it's had a thorough cleaning and some paint, and it's looking pretty nice. My room is big and bright and empty.

Now I just have to figure out how to get what's left of my possessions out of storage in another city... futon! rain gear! winter clothes! anime! manga! Japanese dictionaries!

I'm back from the shadows. I was hiding out for a year... health issues. I was living with family, which is hard to do for a brief reunion, let alone an extended stay. The town was hot, dry and dusty, my allergies were bad, and public transit was useless... just the main routes, weekdays 6AM to 6PM. People keep voting down bonds to expand transit; ( Read more... )

A friend sent this *must read* link:
"Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites".
My response:



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I'm thinking about returning to the big city, maybe this summer after I finish a Japanese class at the local college. I'm an urban gal. Small towns kind of freak me out; sometimes people react oddly if you aren't like them, and I'm different in so many ways from the dominant culture, even if I don't have visible body art ( Read more... )

Remember the old Coasters song, "Get a Job"? Well, I got one, at last! It's seasonal and the pay is low, but it's hopefully gonna be full-time. Inbound sales calls, for products I can support: catalog sales which began with Northwest pears but over the years have expanded to include a broad range of goodies. I'll be working swing shift ( Read more... )

Alive, kicking, and going to a job interview today. Finally replaced the broken iBook. So I'll be back on LJ soon, and catching up on friends and fiction!