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ow… It's been a week since I've been here. I have been preoccupied with a number of different things and have neglected to update this record of my life… such as it is. In any event, I have reached a point in my life where there are simply not enough hours in a day to [...]
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ork work work. What a weekend. M was much better by Saturday, which was a relief. But I had so much work, that all I've been doing is grading. I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I know that I am teaching more classes than before, but that doesn't really explain the dramatic [...]
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think I’ve OD-ed on J-drama. I’m beginning to hallucinate, I think. Well, not really, but I do think I saw a sign that I should try to break this habit. Over the past few weeks, we saw all 49 episodes of Shinsengumi. For those of you who don’t know, Shinsegumi was an organization that originated [...]
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ear my house in Vienna-Fairfax is a Korean supermarket called Lotte. They have a video rental section. I checked it out. They had Japanese animation. They had Japanese movies. They had *gulp* Japanese drama. I told M. They have a bunch of shows! She reminded me that I’m pretty busy with work. They have Taiga [...]
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very spring semester, I teach a course called Japanese culture through film. It is not really a film class, because I’m not really a film instructor. I can view films and critique them in my own way, but I don’t consider myself a film expert. I couldn’t break down a mis-en-scene if my life depended [...]
