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  • Passing-to-the-New-Year Noodles I t is a custom in Japan to eat something called, toshikoshi soba. Toshikoshi literally means to pass over to the next year; soba are the buck wheat noodles that are sold by vend…

  • As part of their final, students were required to translate a story called Kama Sutra. This is my own translation. It is not as literal as any I would require my students to submit, but then I'm not being graded... Kama…

  • Bad Christmas BADDER I t's hard for me to remember a truly "bad" Christmas. I have been blessed for most of my life. I can truly say that most of my Christmases have been nice to some degree: Being with family…

  • Death around the holidays can be very depressing. Mrs. H was not my mother or grandmother, but in many ways she was both. I will be back in a few days.

  • I Love Xanga W ho said Xanga was a waste of time because it's populated by a bunch of young people? Man, it's precisely because its populated by today's youth that I find it has value. Like a couple days ago, I…

  • Converting I know that there's gotta be someone out there who can help me? I friend let borrow a disc with M4A audio files, but of course I can't hear them without converting them... I think. (I use Windows XP.…

  • Grading Update J Lit, grades submitted on-line. J-Lit exam consists of essays so it takes longer--if you were wondering... Well, that and procrastinating... One down, three to go. Update: New Christmas song-…

  • About Onigiriman: FAQ I' ve reached the home stretch of the grading the finals... for my first class. I have two finals--count 'em, TWO--for Tuesday. This is not a Dominoes ad. This is two days before Christmas…

  • Still Grading M an, grading sucks. But I love my students and I want to make sure that they all get the grade they deserve. Can you imagine some profs barely scan the final exams? Not me. I think it would be un…

  • Many thanks I must express my appreciation for your many good wishes. While I still feel like I'm getting old--wait until you guys approach 50 and tell me I was wrong--I am, as I have stated a thousand times, y…

  • Repost: Up, Down, or Sideways M ost languages are are written horizontally: English, Greek, even Arabic, albeit in the opposite direction. East Asian languages, on the other hand, are written vertically, with…

  • 49 down 1 more to go W ell, today students in my lit class must turn in their take-home exams, and this is the first bunch of exams I have to grade. But the title above has nothing to do with the number of fina…

  • My Faith I was born into Catholicism. I was baptized a few weeks into my life, and I trudged along with my parents every sunday to Mass. I went to a Catholic schools from 1st to 12th grade. And during those yea…

  • 0-49=50? N o, it's not not some stupid quantum physics mumbo jumbo. It means 0 to 49 equals 50 numbers. It made sense to me yesterday, I wrote "Next week, I will turn 49, the last year of my first half centur…

  • Father Time E motionally, and perhaps to a degree psychologically and spirtiually, I am immature. I do things without thought sometimes--to my everlasting regret--but usually, I just shrug my shoulders and prom…

  • Fighting Genes A s painful as it is to admit at times, I am turning into my father. Growing up, my old man was very much into his own thing and most of my childhood memories center on times spent with my mother…

  • Reminder The senryu topic for the next salon is posted on my main page on the left column. Just click on the topic to go to the post to which you should make you submission. I will accept submissions until the weekend..…

  • A Japanese Christmas I t never occurred to me how many people might really enjoy the song "Christmas Eve" by Yamashita Tatsuro. When I lived in Japan, this song played in the background all over the place, and …

  • Being Open Minded L ast week into the weekend, I was my usual stupid football self. I get so caught up in the rivalry, and I recall many of the actions taken by Trojan fans that have upset me in the past. As a …

  • "It's your blog and you should write about whatever you enjoy writing about." T his site is called Onigiriman. While it's not my real name--in case you were wondering--it is still me, and I will write about wha…

  • AAAARGH! Kudos to the Trojans Y es, we lost. The game was close, but we lost. We played tough against the number one tema in the nation, but we lost. That is the bottom line, no matter how you look at …

  • The Blood Bowl II vs. O kay, today's the day! No more abuse from the $UCsters. It's time to get mad. Time to get down. Time to get even. I was reading a message board where a fellow Bruin was in line …

  • The Blood Bowl vs. T omorrow is the game: the Blood Bowl. Actually, that isn't the real name. In fact this traditional rivalry has no name. The Oregon - Oregon State game is called the Civil War, and t…

  • Okay, it's Rivalry week. Saturday, we play crosstown rival USC. I you are a student of USC or a fan, do not read any further. I don't like to rag too much about 'SC under normal circumstances. My sister got her MBA there…

  • Senryu for December I t took me a long time to judge the previous poems, so I wasn't sure if I should do another one. But it seems that many of you are getting into this senryu thang. So I thought maybe we shou…

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