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Thursday, November 6, 2008, 19:00
so how psyched are we about our new president? hell yeah! of course i would have loved for cynthia mckinney to have gotten more votes and for people to stop controlling the legality of other people’s marriages with ballots, but i am choosing to be content with what i consider to be a major major [...]
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Saturday, November 1, 2008 21:00
wow, i am so tired! halloween parties are no fun when you’re old.
so i’d like to tell you about the first week of june….the 2nd anniversary of when i met josh. truthfully, josh and i were too damn busy to remember that that was in fact the meeting of our anniversary until a few days [...]
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Tuesday, October 28, 18:00
so i came to japan with a vague idea that somehow the experience of living in a country that is so completely different from my own might give me some perspective on how my students and their families who migrated to the United States from countries like Mexico might feel living in an environment so [...]
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Sunday, October 5, 2008, 11:30
today i am going to see radiohead in concert….yay! :) i actually have a viral trachial infection, but i’m not letting that stop me from experiencing the loveliness of radiohead of course. i also could possibly have temporomandibular dysfunction (TMD or TMJ), i found out yesterday. stupid stress. so i have had a really relaxing [...]
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Monday, September 15, 2008, 14:30
thank god for respect for elders day! it provides the same type of post-summer vacation relief as labor day does for workers who hate mondays back in the states! (except for millsaps college attendees, as i so sorely remember….) anyway, so today i have the day off work, and i have spent it talking to [...]
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Thursday, September 11, 2008, 22:00
so i need to take a little break from all this presidential campaigning nonsense to relive one of my favorite times in japan–hanami, which means “cherry blossom time” (or something). i find it very interesting how so many eloquent japanese words lend themselves to clumsy multi-word translations in english. anyway, in this case pictures speak [...]
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Wednesday, August 6, 13:00
i am starting to love wordpress. in other news today is the anniversary of the hiroshima bombing. i have never been to hiroshima, and i don’t know if i’m going to go. perhaps unsurprisingly i was invited to many more anniversary events that are taking place in the USA than in japan. i might go [...]
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Saturday, July 19, 20:00
so i came to japan with this idea that we shouldn’t judge other people’s cultural values because who says that “ours” are so right anyway? then i started considering the cultural values of the united states and how maybe all my personal values don’t mesh with the widely accepted ones in my home country. so [...]
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Monday, July 14, 21:00
god, i hate mondays. josh and i had such a lovely weekend that this morning was a cruel reminder of the fact that we have to go somewhere at a certain time and act professional all day in order to survive on this planet. yuck.
anyway, let’s talk about march. the month of march i mean. [...]
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