Weblog » Archives » November 2003

  • -8- Happy Thanksgiving Everyone...... Don't be like me and eat too much... But I'm me and I WILL be eating waaaaaaaay too much: Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, potatoes. My sister had sent a Willy Bird. It's a free r…

  • -7- Where's Sis...... hoping to connect... I wake up at 7:30 to call my sister. I call her house, but she's long gone. I try her cell, but its turned off: It automatically connects to her answering service. I think she'…

  • -6- Empathy is often grounded in experience...I myself was a pretty lame student back in the day... But when I say lame--in response to Takunishi's comment--I mean I was uninspired and unmotivated, i.e. lame--academical…

  • -5- Strictly Speaking ...Grade harshly. Grade strictly... as my mentor once told me. She was a professor of linguistics when I was a TA for first-year Japanese going for my MA. And I did as I was told. However, she also…

  • -4-...Kick $uc's ass!... but unfortunately, it turned out the other way. The Trojan's killed my Bruins, then cut them up into little bitty pieces and had them for lunch on the Coliseum floor. This makes it five straight…

  • -3-...To all the football gods in heaven, hear my prayer...... and while I'm at it, Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas, all I want for the rest of the season, is for the Bruins to beat the Trojans. I know, this is a r…

  • -2-...Hah! Anyway, I'll give it a try and see how it works, tho' it might just totally flop... is just how Coach Dorrell must have felt when he changed quarterbacks a few weeks ago. Drew Olsen had won four straight and …

  • Renblog-1: So what's a Renblog? In medieval Japan, poetic anthologies were compiled in a sequential manner. For most of us in the west, we think of anthologies as books with representative poems by recognized poets. Usua…

  • Starting tomorrow: Renblog--linked weblogs Yes, you read that right, Renblog, an experiment to link blogs day to day much in the fashion of renga, or linked verse. Explanation forthcoming... Maybe tonight... or not... N…

  • Language Center :update: I need to figure out how to ask questions regarding teaching philosophy in language instruction. Hmmm. Why do I need to do this? Our school is planning to create a Language Center. I think that i…

  • Nemo I went to Tower Video to pick up the video for my daughter who lives in Japan and this is what they gave me at the counter. Isn't he just precious? Notice that his right fin is smaller? If you haven't seen the m…

  • Busy, busy, busy *update* sortaWork is catching up with me again. I've got so much freaking work that I think I'm gonna puke. Thank gawd there's only one more week of college football... Well, football for me that is. If…

  • The Bruins definitely suck wind.... WTF is happening?!? *sigh* They needed this game so badly, but they were murdered by Oregon. I mean, it was even a close game. Not from the very beginning. I think it was 14-0 in the f…

  • Xanga's Was Down (edited version of yesterday's JAJournal entry.)And so I linked my RBJ to the JAJournal, and found out that because of RBJ, I am actually getting more readers. I realized this because if an RBJ member co…

  • Scheduled for tomorrowHave you ever had Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki? Well, that's what I'm making for my students tomorrow, my bungo students, that is. I figure they work long and hard to learn one of the most difficult …

  • More submissions: I'm glad more are writing--I presume that these submissions were composed after reading the comments I made on the early submissions. Everyone is composing great poetry. The rules of senryu are strict a…

  • Veterans day: This is a day to honor those who have served in the US military--and that would include my cousin, Andy, who served in the 442 and died in Europe serving a country that felt the need to inter his brothers a…

  • Senryu submissions and comments: Wow, I wasn't sure if anyone would respond--guess I was wrong. But this is great. Okay, now remember this is a practice run, and any comment I make is not to be taken as criticism, but as…

  • J Poetry for the commoner: In the Edo period of Japan--approx. 1600-1868--Japan closed itself from the outide world and enjoyed a time of peace for over 250 years. Tokugawa Ieyasu and his successors ruled Japan with an i…

  • Weekend Ramblings II: Narcissistic momentYes, I'm narcissistic. But I think that's basically true of everyone who maintains a public weblog. I must admit that it makes me even happier--no giddier--to read flattering comm…

  • Bruins play WazzuThe Bruins play Washington State at Pullman, WA, and it will not be a picnic. Matt Moore will again start. He was sacked 8 times last week against a team that is 9th out of ten teams in the Pac10 in s…

  • PerfectSanjuro: Heh, I don't think I'd ever let anyone that I know in a professional matter know that I have a xanga. Apparently one of my teachers has one, and according to what he writes he does some very interesting …

  • Busted again... by the same personHere's Kai's response: You make me sound so mean! In my defense, I turned in the request a month and a half ago.... you'll have *2 months* from the time I turned it in! And I was refer…

  • Say Yes / Chage and AskaHattoriHanzo mentioned that Takeda Tetsuya reminded him of this song, the theme from the TV show "101st Proposal". Tetsuya's famous line was (this might be a paraphrase) "Anata wo aishiter…

  • My desk....I've got so much to give, there is so much to say, night after night, day after day, in spite of our words, they all turn away. Kinda narcissistic, but these aren't my lyrics. They are from an old group, on…

  • Alllooksame....Wow, I got a lot comments saying I look like Takeda Tetsuya! Is that right? Personally, I think the only resemblance is the fact that I'm a dedicated teacher who loves his students, and Tetsuya PLAYED a de…

  • All Look SameNo, no, no. This is not another Asian American post, although I think I should post one soon--I've been writing too many inconsequential pieces for too long. School has kept me too busy to think too deeply a…

  • I think I'll make another list : Update : Any suggestions? I already did movies and foods. Shiroi_Norite thinks I should make a list of my favorite students. I know he's joking, cuz it would be way too narcissistic. Besi…

  • HolloweenFewer children than I would have expected. I think about twenty and a bit came by. I wonder why? Are parents protecting their kids from the evils of sugar and bad teeth? Or are they keeping them from possible po…

Onigiriman

  • Visit Onigiriman's Xanga Site
    • Name: Onigiriman
    • Country: United States
    • State: Virginia
    • Metro: Fairfax County
    • Birthday: 12/15/1955
    • Member Since: 6/15/2003
    • Lifetime

Connect

Recent Weblogs