The past two days were amazing!

On Wednesday I was at Kaibara and co-taught with Yoshida-sensei. 2nd years are good times! I got them to ask me some really good questions about Christmas and they take notes for fun (or at least the Basic Science class does). They also drew and described some hilarious Christmas scenes (mostly involving Santa ( Read more... )

Yashiro Prison was not all that bad; the kitchen staff teamed up with some ALTs to produce quite the band. On Thursday night we had three guitars, a mandolin, a ukulele, and a violin, not to mention the scores of singers. Plans were sorta made on Friday to go to Kyoto for Obon on Saturday. The plan was to meet at the Kyoto train station between ( Read more... )

Taken from a statement made in a conversation heard while walking down the hall:

QUESTION!

Is Gaston's evilness different from that of Jafar's, Scar's, Cruella's, Ursula's, etc.?

ANSWERS!

I want to hear them.

Bottlenose dolphin rescues stranded whales. How neat is that ( Read more... )

( Stewardship opportunity with the DNR on March Eighth )

LOOKIT GUYS LOOKIT

:D I got sorta-featured on DEVIANTART! My Nightcrawler is up there! GUCKMAL GUCKMAL!

It was a week ago, but I've been distracted and don't check my messages all that often.

WHY DON'T I HAVE ANY KURT ICONS!?

Jazz Funk vs Gary Numan ... and bears

Holy crap, the AYF History course is mowing down everything in its sight. Four of us had to split up a reading, summarize it, and share notes last night. I'm still waiting for two people to e-mail their summaries to me. Our professor is bonkers with the work he's given us. There will likely be bitching and complaining today in class.

Over dinner yesterday, Beki and I bemoaned our failure to have mastered German in the 6-7 years we've been learning it. Seriously. I've spent about 1/3 of my life learning German and I feel like I've gotten nowhere. So, while procrastinating and trying to avoid my homework, I present you with an excerpt from Mark Twain's The Awful German ( Read more... )

Basel was great, if a bit of a pain. Got to the Hauptbahnhof around 9 and was greeted by the Mittmans and a butter pretzel ( mmm ). Hour train ride there ( Read more... )