I Swear, It's Not Me
It's embarrasing when someone thinks you cut a fart... guilty or not. *sigh* Every morning, I find myself rushing to catch up on things. The alarm goes off--or M nudges me to wake up--and it takes me 15 to 20 minutes to get me to stir out of bed. I trudge on over to the computer, turn it on, go take my morning leak as the ( Read more... )

On Saturday, when I went to M's friend's house for dinner, we talked about riding the train home from work. One person said that he noticed that very few passengers do what the Japanese do--read a book or listen to music. I don't really agree. I have seen my share of those who read novels, work on their laptops or listen to their iPods, although ( Read more... )

Everyone has already heard the jokes about Vice President Dick Cheney. He's a Republican, so he hates lawyers and supports the NRA. Of course, this is not really a laughing matter. Shooting a friend by accident--and I am pretty sure that it was an accident--is no laughing matter. But worse than making jokes of it, some are taking the matter lightly ( Read more... )

Today is Presidents Day. What a day. The fourth day of a four day weekend for me. So I should perhaps think about something presidential. I could imagine all manner of isues, from the congressional hearings on the failures of FEMA and Homeland Security reagarding Katrina. I could make a crack about lawyers, the NRA and Dick Cheney. I could muse on ( Read more... )

In my never ending effort to take my mind off of the direction our nation is headed--the growing debt that most of you will have to deal with when you reach my age, the billions spent on the Iraq war which could have been spent on the Katrina victims or on education, inflexible supreme court justices--I waste countless hours watching J-Drama. Yes, ( Read more... )

I'm an Idiot

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es, I am officially and perhaps even legally idiotic. Why? Because I believe that words are unstable and meanings can be easily displaced. I have mentioned this many times, here and elsewhere. Words and texts can change given different contexts and circumstances. I've done this before, I think, but just for the heck of it, let's ( Read more... )

J-Drama Junkie II

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think I've OD-ed on J-drama. I'm beginning to hallucinate, I think. Well, not really, but I do think I saw a sign that I should try to break this habit. Over the past few weeks, we saw all 49 episodes of Shinsengumi. For those of you who don't know, Shinsegumi was an organization that originated as a group of friends and ( Read more... )

J-Drama Junkie

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ear my house in Vienna-Fairfax is a Korean supermarket called Lotte. They have a video rental section. I checked it out. They had Japanese animation. They had Japanese movies. They had *gulp* Japanese drama. I told M. They have a bunch of shows! She reminded me that I'm pretty busy with work. They have Taiga dorama! She ( Read more... )

Snow

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very warm winter has turned into a snowy one. It started snowing Saturday morning, started to accumulate by mid-afternoon, and it's been snowing since. I'm sure it's no big deal for many, but there's about a foot of snow, and the thought of having to shovel it is already making my back hurt. I'm hoping it keeps snowing 'til Monday ( Read more... )

You know you're getting older...

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ver since I turned 50, I've been obsessed with it. I think I'm truly going through some sort of mid-life crisis. No, I have no plans to buy a Corvette, although that's mostly because I don't have the money... I presume that most who read this site will not understand this preoccupation with age. Wait another ( Read more... )