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So summer is here. I started my first full-time job ever today. I'm having fun, though it is nice that I get to telecommute. Steve came home sodden and miserable; he's severely sleep-deprived and starting to show it. He went to bed at 6 pm tonight; I can only hope he feels better in the morning. It's never pretty when he hasn't been sleeping well ( Read more... )

The lyrics meme. The deal is, you put your whole playlist on random, and for the first 10 songs that play you write your favorite lyric from the song. Whoever guesses the most songs/artists correctly wins a nifty prize (hint: it's music related)! I skipped any songs in Japanese since I figured it's more fair that way ( Read more... )

Finals week is coming to an end. That's one of the more significant events of every year of my life, at least for one more year. Only one more year ( Read more... )

Augh! My Livejournal account finally expired. So long, icons... *waves a hankerchief ( Read more... )

( Survey meme. Woot. )

"Prior to the Meiji Restoration in 1867, Japan was essentially comprised of independent fiefdoms and clams."

...sigh. Anne needs to go to bed.

"I believe language should have variability. For people who speak one language, another language seems strange. Each language has their own view of the world, and that applies to dialects too. If you lose one dialect, then you lose one view of the world."

-Mutou Teruaki-sensei, on the decline of regional dialects in Japan