This morning, when I looked at my clock, I reflexively told it "2am, we've got to stop meeting like this." I think talking to a non-interactive inanimate object as if you were in a romcom with it is a sign of something, but I'm not sure I want to know what that is. But hanging out with the lower hours on the wrong side of sleep is something that ( Read more... )

There were finals of Tamaoki Hai on this day. I pitched from the first match, took the plate finals, and was able to become a victory pitcher. The first match was Zaisho team. It was possible o win by one safe hit shut-out though it was a little uneasy because people good at baseball had gathered in adults in Minamidaito. The semifinal is a ( Read more... )

My first memory is to have watched fireworks in Ina City of Nagano. I was big and various fireworks stopped, and the fireworks which were yellow like a sunflower and small fireworks, pink fireworks were terrible and were beautiful. It rained on that day, but I cheer to watch it with terrible fireworks so that the rain vanishes when a large number ( Read more... )

I have six classes today. AHAHAHAHA ahhhhhhh.

Apparently, we have a plan to invade and conquer Canada. The question is: why would we ever want to?

While I'm was doing my Halloween lecture, all I can think of "Samhain is the damn origin of Halloween. The Celts believe that October 31st was the one night of the year when the veil was the thinnest between the living and the dead, and it was Samhain's night ( Read more... )

We're in junior high class watching the We Are the World documentary, when Bruce Springsteen's interview slash solo recording part comes up. At the back of the class I lean over to Bambi and whisper "Yay, the Boss, I love him." Immediately she yells at everyone in Japanese, "Hey everyone check out this guy! Mer's in love with him!" as everyone ( Read more... )

The day after tomorrow we're going to be teaching the kids a bit about the differences of internet culture in terms of smilies (through which the Japanese side I still have the most experience with from the movie 電車男) and anything else I feel like teaching. I mentioned acronyms, and Bambi got very excited, saying she'd be looking forward to ( Read more... )

Today, Bambi told me that she was going to teach our 3rd Graders how to write an "English poem" (what that means, your guess is as good as mine), and asked me to write one before we had class. I asked her what kind (my first thought being LOL limerick but then thought about what a headache it would be to try to explain rhyming patterns to 9th ( Read more... )

Pineapple-sensei just grabbed me and was like "So, this month, you can teach a 3rd grade class right ( Read more... )

Here I am, working on another weekend. I'd been looking forward to having a weekend to get done the mountain I shit I have to do before next weekend; but nope, looks like I don't get that reprieve ( Read more... )