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The surest sign, to me, that I am leaving a place:

the kitchen is bare, and the spices are gone.

I still have a few spices left. A very few. They are hanging out in the much-bared corner of my shelftop, looking all Pico Why Were Our Compatriots Taken From Us.

Is it sad that I feel empty without my tiny bottles of mint and almond extract?

18 days ( Read more... )

( cut for a buncha complaining shut up pico )

Linkies first:

Beth Bernobich Interview
---- this interview makes me want to read this woman. She's got really good, cogent, and interesting answers to her questions, and seems to have her head on real straight. (I might, based on what the content of said books sound like, might recommend her to historicula since they sound pretty good and maybe like you' ( Read more... )

Alright. Did it. Went through the long, repetiive, and mos imporantly arduous processes, and finally, finally made the purchase of the Silk Road Trip. (And accompanying train tickey to BJ.)

Dang dang dang it was a pile of clusterfluster, trying to due the bank transfer - had to rewrite the form five times (FIVE) and run all about. ( Read more... )

Gosh, you guys! That went WELL!

Just had the planning meeting for the semester, and I'll be teaching like this:

Listening and Speaking (STS)
Tues AM 8-10, 10-12
Thurs AM 8-10 10-12

Academic Writing (AW)
Tues 3.45-5.30
Wed 3.45-5.30
Thurs 3.45-5.30
Fri 3.45-5.30

Study-Abroad WorkshopTBD, once/twice a month, each month ( Read more... )

I was wandering the world of the internet last night, and came, by wandering ways, acrosst a mention of Japan and its four-season issue. It's all nihonjihron*, of course, but it got me to thinking about seasons, and how we deal with them. It's got some fun stuff in the comments of people acerbicly commenting on their own seasons, sure, but ( Read more... )

ATTENTION. THIS POST WILL BE RIDDLED WITH TYPOES BECAUSE I'M TYPING ON A CHINESE KEYBOARD AND IT DOESN'T SEEM TO HAVE FIGURED ME OUT. so there ( Read more... )