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I'm watching this documentary by one of my favorite British (Scottish) broadcasters. It's essentially about Japan. About a Scotsman active in Japan during the period that first interested me in this country ( Read more... )

I wrote some of my dissertation this morning! It wasn't a whole hour, after getting the old laptop fired up (it's five years old, now) and the relevant files opnened, but I got some more done! Maybe I can get a little more done, tonight--though it's a late night for me getting home in the best circumstances...

I wonder if maybe I shouldn't adjust my approach to this dissertation... Maybe I should just assume that I am going to fail, rather than try to do a "good job" and "earn" a "high mark"... Also, I am sick of my topic. So sick. Here's a hint: never chose a basic assumption as a research topic. Never. You will only be unhappy and tired because ( Read more... )

I got results from the student surveys at the trade school I work at. One of my students called me "mean-spirited". :-(

How do you know you're not a shitty teacher??

Sometimes taking the train in Tokyo makes me want to peel everyone else's skin off of their faces. Of course I don't and I wouldn't, but then I might settle for pushing a few into situations of physical contact with matter at a high degree of velocitudinal differentiation. Yes, I made that word up. I'm an applied linguist, I'm allowed ( Read more... )

God... I can't seem to get over that feeling I had as an eight-year-old : I haven't done anything, etc.

Maybe I'm just tired... really tired.... for nothing.

This past weekend I went to a workshop on Reacting to the Past--it's apparently all the rage in America just now. I think it was a good experience. I changed the course of world history ( Read more... )

Whoops, I auto-logged in--must be kismet ( Read more... )

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