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  • Happy New Year! A great and productive 2006 for everyone, from the O-man Currently playing on the comments page is a newer version of "Christmas Eve" by Shela.

  • Almost Finished Y es, I finally decided to get serious last night and graded furiously. Consequently, I am just about finished. Just in time for the Sun Bowl where UCLA plays Northwestern. I hope to greet the N…

  • The Mostest 2005--Movies Science Fiction + Action = high marks T he word "film" is a term I associate with academia. I show Japanese Films: Ikiru, Woman in the Dune, Seven Samurai, Twenty-four Eyes. I enjoy th…

  • It's the Last Week of the Year C hristmas is over and everyone is getting ready for the New Year, and I can't freakin' believe that I'm still grading! Aaaargh. I suppose if I had just sat down and focused last …

  • The Mostest 2005--Sports Rounding third and heading home... I know a lot of you are going to hate this. I have had people tell me personally that when they get the first inlking that its a sports post, they st…

  • Merry Christmas!and just to be on the safe side Happy Holidays! Love and Peace to all of ya, Onigiriman Leave a comment and listen to "Christmas Eve" by Yamashita Tatsuro "

  • The Mostest 2005--TV Island. Space. Island. Space. I can't make up my mind! TV is usually a source of information for me. Most of my time in front of the small screen is spent watching sports--anywhere from th…

  • Physically and Emotionally Cold A brief rant on a stressful day T he heater in our house is broken. Seriously. We have not been getting any heat for the last three days and it can be scary cold. The repair man…

  • Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays Just being confused I lived in Japan for about seven years in the 90s. When I returned to the States, I realized that there was a conscious distinction between saying Merry Ch…

  • The Mostest 2005--Prices Gas, gas, gas I t seems that gas has played a central role in my life this year. The faux heart attack was actually a build up of gas in my intestines. Fortunately, this was only a te…

  • The Mostest 2005--Health No Flu shot A t the end of every year, we get Top Ten Lists and the Best of Lists and the Worst of Lists. I like reading these lists a lot, as it allows me to recall many of the the th…

  • A Midlife in Crisis Turning Five-0 N ot that this has any legitimacy, but these Internet "games" are fun. I went to SleepingCutie's site and found this name decoder of sorts. First, however, I want to …

  • A Monkey For Grades N ow that the semester is over, it has actually just started for me. While students go through the process of studying and taking finals, it is time for me to start grading them. And thanks …

  • Flu shot A fter the I-think-I'm-having-a-heart-attack incident, all I could do was think about how old I was getting. My mother died of cancer, but she had had a heart attack years before that, back in 1989 whe…

  • Last Day of Classes A nother semester done. I always thought that life would get easier as I got older, but it turns out to be the opposite for me. It seems that every year seems to get harder. Teaching is noth…

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