When I moved into this house a couple years ago, my landlord said I could do whatever I wanted to the yard and garden (as long as I didn't piss off the neighborhood). I appreciated this leeway, because the landlord's idea of gardening is to lay out vast plots of mulch, dotted with a few hostas marching in a rigid row. It looked like the ' ( Read more... )

-- Grade, grade, grade
-- Conference proposal, so as not to abandon flange5 (requires much reading, and probably abandoning that idea since it surely won't pan out like I hope it will -- and then coming up with new-old stuff last minute ( Read more... )

I don't know if Nino is supposed to be a dentist or a waiter in this outfit -- or maybe a dentist with a second job who mixes uniforms -- but I love the hair.


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So I am lame about forgetting my camera when I go to photogenic places -- hence no pictures from the harrowing field trip to the American Shakespeare Center in Virginia. I also forgot my camera last weekend when my college friend who lives two hours away expressed an urge to visit the "Open Barn" event at a llama farm outside her town ( Read more... )

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Since it seems like the only legitimate thing to do with my life at this point is to become a crazy cat lady, I have acquired two crazy cats. One of my actually decent students (she’s thirty and therefore places a bit more value on her education than the kids who never particularly liked school in the first pace but just don’t know what else to do ( Read more... )

One of my colleagues was diagnosed with Vitamin D deficiency. That's how gloomy it is around here.

It’s a new year, and I’m still alive, in case anyone was wondering. I’ve been lurking in the background on LJ to keep up with Arashi and other JE stuff (mostly just being aware of what’s going on, but not really able to watch anything longer than tiny clips) because I need at least one thing (divisible by five or sixteen) that makes me smile ( Read more... )

And things like this are why:



Not that any of my students seem even misguidedly motivated to go to grad school...

Just so there's a little fanning in here, Ohno's wailing at the beginning of "Moving On'" makes me think of Bad Company's "Bad Company," for some reason. Also, the Music Station camerapersons spend way too much time on MatsuJun's face when they could be looking at Ohno's ass. (And their treatment of TOKIO's performance was kind of nauseating -- ( Read more... )