2008-11-30 11:46 pm
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Recent Happenings

I still haven't written about Samurai 7, have I? A few things. )

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Artistic ventures )

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This morning, I beat Jorudan's predictions. It was giving me two time options to get where I was going; the arrival times were 25 minutes apart, so I thought, "There has to be a faster connection than that!" And there was, and I made it, with 20 seconds to spare. I was the green and grey blur racing through Shibuya at 8:30. ^_^

I spent much of today in the studio, because I am a movie star! Coming soon to a theatre near you! )

Also, my screen name is Adele Robinson, because I had to go back to my grandmother's maiden name to find one that wasn't German/Austrian or French, i.e. that would be easier for the Japanese teachers to understand. And that sounded, you know, English.

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Date #2 with Karaoke Guy tonight. V. gentleman-like. Still have not gotten laid. )


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That... turned out much longer than I thought it would.
2008-11-22 12:02 am
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Are any of you Tokyo (and surrounding areas, of course) people art lovers? I'd like to go see the "Vermeer and the Delft Style" exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art in Ueno -- it features 7 actual Vermeer paintings! The exhibition runs until the 14th of December. Let me know if you're interested!

ETA: here is some info: in Japanese and in English.

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On of the unquantifiable rewards of teaching that I like best is the amount of lols you get out of students mispronouncing or misunderstanding things. Today, we started working on "Rudoph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" for the kids' little Christmas show. My co-teacher R and I were trying to figure out which roles they should play, so we started assigning them reindeer names.

"And we need a Santa," R said. "Maybe Chikara [our oldest boy] could be Santa?"

"That would leave us one reindeer short," I pointed out, because there are 9 kids in the class.

"I'm not short," Chikara protested, standing up. "I'm tall!"

He was mightily confused when we both burst out laughing, but seemed to accept our explanation of, "We meant a different kind of short!"
2008-09-27 10:21 am
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Above my television, there's my Dream Live 5th poster. Above my bookcase, there's my Imperial Presence poster. And now, above where I lay out my futon, is this:

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