So yeah, instead of workout I had a bunch of stuff to do. But instead of lazy cooking (not really lazy) I had a whole ton of cleaning to do and some freaking out to go with it ( Read more... )

Did basics last night.

Afraid tonight will not be so well, need this evening for cooking and laundry. Sigh.

Well, packing goes well, just...more packing yet to go ( Read more... )

Paper work for Japan, computer fubarness (yay warranties), my sister got married (it went well), the Chinese government might be tracking me, packing my life into boxes for storage ( Read more... )

27 pages of solid text, 1 title page, 3 pages of referrences. Now all that remains is 2 pages of zen center reflection and a religions final.

US Narratives of Japan in the 1980s: The Two Stories Yet Untold.

...Are when you start writing shorthand notation in two languages, and especially when you start shorthanding in alphabets a language wasn't meant to be written in ( Read more... )

P-chan's Path to Becoming a Bitter Intellectual: How I learned that liberal arts makes human interaction harder than before.

It's true, the more I read the more bitter I get about other human beings. This is on everything from the 'exoticization' of various parts of the world (esp. East Asia for me, but that's because it's my specialty) to morality ( Read more... )

So the polisci department is having a department end of year luncheon. No biggy, plan to show up for food and intelligent banter.

Then the second email shows: "Please try to make it, we have an award we'd like to announce for you."

Now, I know this isn't some kind of second ceremony because I didn't go to Honor's Day awards and missed something I was ( Read more... )

P-chan has been notified he has won a prize in a Macalester poetry contest.
What the fuck.

End times, they are coming.

For the record, the two poems I submitted were:

Pretty eyes,
from within a festival,
watching the moon.

In front of the mountain,
the river shines,
flowers bloom.

In romanized Japanese these are:
Kirei na me (きれいなめ)
matsuri no naka ni ( ( Read more... )

Cool fact: there is a city in Japan named 'Mountain Mouth'.

Just thought you guys might want to know.