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  • Christmas Season is here W ell, Thanksgiving has come and gone, leaving a few extra pounds on this sorry-ass body of mine. And now Christmas season is upon us. Ho-ho-ho. Time to warm up the credit card and buy…

  • Senryu Tsubame 川柳 September F rom msbLiSs: "See, you can observe how your online students' poetry is evolving with the feedback you provide and the model of others to follow. =o)" Well, I'm glad you appreci…

  • When a groove turns into a rut S ometimes things get into a rut without me even noticing them. I work 24/7 it seems. At school, I teach, talk to students during office hours, prepare for class the next day, the…

  • Xanga changes C hange is an inevitable part of life. Some for the good, some for the bad. What I need to work on is my ability to accept it and deal with it on its terms. This is, of course, easier said than do…

  • Happy Thanksgiving T here are many reasons to be thankful for, truly... I just need a minute or two to think of a few... um. Yeah... like, I'm still alive, although that's debatable. As much work as I have now,…

  • Thanksgiving break T oday is the final day before Thanksgiving break. Now classes on Tuesday were fine. Attendance rate was about 90%. I love my language courses. I demand a lot, and these students give a lot. …

  • On the Margins T hanks for all the ideas. There were a number of good ideas--I certainly like to write about my youth, and of course sex--but still, the will to write is faltering. I simply feel "blah". Is it a…

  • Uninspired L ately, I have felt run-down, abused, over-worked. Perhaps that is why I have felt totally uninspired to write. I am completely drained. I feel like a character in a Murakami Haruki story, the fathe…

  • We played the University of Oregon in Oregon today. And we won, 34-26. The way we played against Washington State last week--a game we should have won, at home, in the Rose Bowl, against one of the worst teams in…

  • Bungo class T onight is the annual bungo--literary Japanese--class. It's a special class where we chant classical Japanese texts--s‚­ì‚Ì—¬‚ê‚͐₦‚¸‚µ‚Ä--and sacrifice virgins. hehehehe. Actually, its a meeti…

  • PTES P reviously, in the ever dramatic and tramatic life of a Riceball--that's Onigiriman to you and me--I mentioned how I hated the negative vibes I've been manifesting. Well, today I talked to a student who s…

  • The Sky is Falling J ust call me Chicken Little, or maybe a Little Chicken. Actually, it's more like chicken and rice. In any event, Rachelsmommy is calling me a political extremist. Or at least I'm on the verg…

  • Changing the Cultural Landscape W ith the election of George Bush, we could see a dramatic change in the cultural landscape. Who will be affected? Women, gays, and racial minorities. You see, if we are not with…

  • "Hey, did you get that off my Xanga banner?" H ahahahaha. Sorry. Most definitely, Link_strife has the phrase, "Shades of Gray" on his page. But this is the title of a song by the Monkees from the 1960s--it shou…

  • Only Shades of Gray A s many of you know, my academic specialty is Japanese Literature. And perhaps the most important aspect of J Lit--as well as J culture in general--is that everything is portrayed in differ…

  • The Year of the Reverse I guess this is the year to change trends, destroy old superstitions. First, the Red Sox not only become the first baseball team to come back from a 0-3 deficit and beat the Yankees, the…

  • Decision 2004 I voted today and man the place was packed. I went at 9AM and there were a kaziilion people. So I went home and returned at 11AM. There were only a million this time, so I decided to wait in lin…

  • Kerry Wins Presidency! T hat's right! Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate has been elected as the 43 president of these United States. Sorry, all you Bush backers. But it's official. Send …

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