About to go to the library for the first time. Hopefully I can find some Japanese books at an appropriate level of difficulty. #
time for Japanese class…what to study now that the JLPT is over？ #
Nothing to do for first and second period #
Last class of the semester: 4th period today! Too bad [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
Sneaky’s Weekly Twitter Update – 2008-12-20
Winter vacation is here, finally
I have been waiting forever for a real vacation. Sure I had a lot of time off during my job troubles last year and earlier this year, but I never could enjoy them. Even my times off on golden week and obon were quite busy and tiring. Well thankfully I’ve finally begun what I can [...]
象の消滅 – The Elephant Vanishes
When I went to the library on Sunday, Ranmafan had just posted about the Murakami novel that he was reading, and for years Naftali has highly recommended Murakami’s work. So at the library, I got a copy of The Elephant Vanishes in Japanese.
I’ve read maybe 6 or 7 pages of the story “眠り/ Sleep” so far. [...]
Soviet Infiltration
A-Yo’s visa application has been approved by USCIS. It only took 7.5
months to get approved! And now it will take another month for them
to transmit the approved petition to the embassy in Kazakhstan and then a couple more weeks for A-Yo to schedule an appointment and jump through
various hoops at the US Embassy [...]
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew!
A funny thing happened today at the post office. I went to mail a couple of Christmas packages to America when I noticed there was a tv crew there. Well after spending ten minutes mailing and talking in Japanese I go to leave. Well the tv crew had moved to a table in the front [...]
Christmas Movie Quiz
1) Which movie opening on Christmas will do better at the box office: Valkyrie with Tom Cruise as a Nazi or Marley and Me featuring a rambunctious but lovable dog that teaches its owners about the things that really matter in life?
2) Who is the idiot that scheduled a WWII Hitler assassination-attempt film to open [...]
Norwegian Wood – AKA yes I do read novels
The other day I was at work reading the book “Dune” during my lunch break. One of the Japanese staff walked in with the biggest look of shock I’ve seen from her. She then said, “You are reading!?!?!? Not a comic book?!?!?!!” I always get that remark when people find out that I enjoy reading [...]
Sneaky’s Weekly Twitter Update – 2008-12-13
あ・あ・あ…あ・あ・あ! #
@podgy I heard there was a 人身事故 not a 地震事故 ＾＿＾ It hit some guy that was on the tracks. in reply to podgy #
ok, enough goofing off on the computer….time to get ready for my lessons! #
@podgy あ・あ・あ…あ・あ・あ! in reply to podgy #
hmmm…twitter doesn’t give a lot of context for the @ replies. #
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