Just buried. I'm in the last couple months of my grad program, so things are getting a bit intense. I'm still enjoying it, I'm just focused on writing and working out what happens next.

Man, I should probably make an effort to make a useful post more than once a month. It is hard to remember what I was doing back then!

( Here, have a grab-bag of updates. )

Yes, indeedy, I have three Canadians in my house! They have arrived safely and appear to be enjoying their vacation so far. On Wednesday they did the traditional seeing-of-all-three-sights-in-my-town, and then yesterday was a holiday so I got to go with them up to Lake Haruna. The sky magically cleared up just as the bus pulled in, which was ( Read more... )

When last we spoke, my school had just had all its entrance ceremonies. Nothing much else happened last week- there was apparently a lot of mixing and matching of schedule-stuff, which I was sort of out in the cold for. Turns out that we're keeping the same system as last year (the "by-request-only" system), but our three baby English teachers seem ( Read more... )

( So B & Z seem to be enjoying themselves. )

So, B and Z succesfully arrived in Japan, yay! And I managed to pick them up from the airport, and we made the long and exciting trip back to my house.
( Adventures in Threes )

My friends B and Z from UBC are getting here tomorrow. I'M A TEENY TINY BIT EXCITED.

In other news, this article not only tells me that I was right to skip out on the kerosene heater (like smoking two packs a day? all that black gunk on my floors was definitely from the kerosene heater), but also has kind of a neat gadget in it ( Read more... )

More links to things I think are cool, yay!

Here, have some cool bacteria:

We had that lightswitch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off. NOT SO YOU COULD THROW LIGHT-SWITCH RAVES.

Also, some cloning:

This is the older article.

Oh, so now you're the King of Bob.Also, also, this might seem wacky, but I really like this ( Read more... )

So basically, this article says some of the stuff that is really frustrating about living in Japan, albeit with slightly less evident rage: I say, "Hey Japan, you're pretty hip to the jive with the whole efficiency thing! How bout that sustainability, eh?" and Japan is like, "What's... sustainability, precious?" And then I rage for a while about ( Read more... )

By which I mean that they caught and killed the mouse that has been haunting the teachers' room for the last few weeks. Hopefully there was only one!

So, the past couple of days have been pretty mind-numbing. In reality, it hasn't been that different from what I would normally do, but somehow having the idea that I might be able to leave early ( Read more... )