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Plea for Help: Technical Problems
First of all, assume I'm a five-year-old who has never seen a computer before in my life. This is because a) I'm using a Mac for the first time in my life, b) it's being run in the Japanese language, and c) I'm not exactly a whiz with PCs running in English. I guarantee I won't be offended if you speak very slowly and clearly to me if there's the ( Read more... ) -
Strong Female Characters
This more or less sums up the problem I have always had with beautiful, booksmart, down-to-earth women with martial arts proficiency, perfect aim, unfailing courage and cutting wit (with occasional well-timed endearing vulnerability) being labelled as "strong female characters": Why Strong Female Characters are Bad for Women
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Graduate Loan / Job-Love / Greener Grass
Good news - I got a graduate loan! So far I have used it to clear my credit card, pay off my overdraft and shut down my student account and pay various smaller personal debts, as well as a chunk of what I owe my parents. It's not everything, but it's the financial equivalent of a clean slate I badly need and don't intend to squander. I'm already ( Read more... ) -
Decisions about next year
Based in part on comments to my last post, in part just on the growing impression that this is the right path for me, I've decided to make my MA part time. In the first year I will take five hours of classes per week on gender theory and Japanese cinema. In the second year I will take four hours of classes per week on Japanese language, and ( Read more... ) -
Part Time? Full Time?
For various reasons, I'm seriously considering doing my MA from this September part time - that is, I would complete it in two years instead of one.
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Dissertation / So-ran: all pressured things come to an end
It took four all-nighters this week and a couple last week, but I did it: I completed my first draft of my dissertation by Saturday afternoon at 1.30pm. I'm not fussed about its quality right now, I just want to know if I'm making the right arguments, heading in the right direction and not missing out anything huge or including things that really ( Read more... ) -
TESOL course
Today I took step one towards becoming an English conversation teacher in Japan: I went to the open day of a distance learning TESOL school in Sheffield that I've been eyeing up for a while now, liked the materials they showed me and the advice they offered, and signed up there and then. I'm £525 poorer for it, but I'm viewing it as investment for ( Read more... ) -
Japanese-Related Classes?
Long time no Livejournalling! My hard drive has crashed, so my only chance to use a computer right now is at the university library, where I generally feel I should be doing work so tend to avoid LJ. However, now I have a chance to combine the two, as some future stuff has come up that needs to be taken care of! What luck ( Read more... ) -
Sex trafficking on my doorstep.
This is almost word-for-word imported from my Facebook. I'm so stunned, this is all I can think about right now ( Read more... ) -
Japan Visit / Six Weeks...
Broken keyboard at home + busy time at uni = no LJ for Amelia. Sorry guys, I've not read any of your entries for about a month, and will try to catch up little by little, but am unlikely to read everything I would like to ( Read more... )