sooooo, since everyone posted, well, nearly everyone, in such a short time, i had a good 30 minutes of reading to do at work. thank you so much, because my new schedule has me sitting at work 4 out of 5 days with only 3 hours of actual work in the 7 hours i'm here ( Read more... )

I just read an article about Charles Babbage, an early father of computing, and how a former curator at a museum recently built Babbage's greatest design; one that he himself never saw come to fruition due to lack of funding, and the shear "craziness" of his ideas at the time (Victorian England). They used only materials available to him, and ( Read more... )

The person who comes out to this book ( Read more... )

so i'm getting a cat.  i'm going to adopt one and volunteer at a shelter here that rescues cats and dogs.  apparently, as though people didn't already know, they eat dogs here, and cats, too, i guess.  but it's not just some underground thing.  it's an actual industry, and since it's not "illegal" per se, there are organizations that work against ( Read more... )

 so.  i am writing this in light of recent pondering.

i am considering seriously: two years in Seoul, two years in Japan (theoretically outside Kyoto, someplace more rural and chill than a gigantic city), and then either directly to my master's in teaching ESL (or math), or a year in a Spanish speaking country (then the master's deal).

this is not ( Read more... )

so.  it's been a hwa-ile ( Read more... )

not the candy bar.  i get 1.4 million won today!  sometime...  i think ( Read more... )

so i get two elementary classes this week because one of the teachers is on vacation in thailand.  sick.  it also means i have 5 classes today, in a row, so like 6 straight hours of teaching with little to no breaks plus no prep.  fun i hope ( Read more... )

Hey! So hopefully you guys haven't sent anything to me yet, because it apparently takes a retarded amount of time to send it to me at my apartment.  BUT, if you send it to me school it gets there at the normal speed, so here's that address ( Read more... )

So I was reading so back posts, ones I missed and ones that are fairly new...  LJ is the same as it's always been, the venting and ranting spot I knew and loved so long ago ( Read more... )