http://nagasakiblues.com you shall know our velocity Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:15:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en there's a flowchart of sorts sitting on my desk on a sheet of notebook paper, courtesy of megumi. i shall reproduce it, because it's very helpful: hot day these days ... http://nagasakiblues.com/archives/26 Scratch the Southeast Asia. It's getting too hectic around here, and I don't have time for the bittersweet reflection anymore. I don't usually know what I'm talking about, anyways. So, without further ado, I'll just begin posting student writing at random. Takuma watched all of the Back to the Future trilogy ... http://nagasakiblues.com/archives/25 I went to Cambodia recently, and for the next several days the posts will be concerning that, as I transcribe my journal entries from those weeks.   If you've never been to the Killing Fields, this is the part where I explain it to you, minus the statistics. We're supposed to remember the ... http://nagasakiblues.com/archives/24 "I don't get it. What do you mean, you're afraid of animals?" "I'm afraid of all animals. Definitely all of them." "Why?" "Because they're scary." Ayumi and Nana are walking to school beside me, and as is fairly normal, they've taken a break from attempting to speak English and have thus mostly forgotten I'm ... http://nagasakiblues.com/archives/22 Oh man, things have gotten busy. Believe it or not, I have plenty to write about. I just don't have as much time as I'd like, nor the will. I will do better, I will do better. Videos to come as well: Tomorrow in class I'm trying to bring Halloween to Japan by ... http://nagasakiblues.com/archives/21 I don't really like you. You have made a select list of groups of people that I generally dislike by default, which is admirable in a way, but as I get older I find that people irritate me more often, so perhaps it's me that needs to do a little ... http://nagasakiblues.com/archives/20 This a compilation of my notes from the last week: Monday, 10:42 PM The Japan-to-Tennessee jet lag has decimated my biological clock. It is Monday evening, but I have been asleep for the past six hours, waking to a house empty aside from my father, sitting alone in a darkened living room, ... http://nagasakiblues.com/archives/19 To those who have recently left Nagasaki or are leaving in the upcoming days: Thank you. When the cold is awful or the heat is unbearable, the mosquitoes are out in full force, and all the vice principals of the world have teamed up to make things a problem, you've kept it ... http://nagasakiblues.com/archives/18 Fish are dying. This, in and of itself, is not entirely special, but the specific circumstances are. In one Japanese river in particular, 2 tons of dead fish (including 2,000 eels, if I read it correctly) have washed up in the past few days, and nobody seems to have a great explanation ... http://nagasakiblues.com/archives/17 Occasionally, some switch in my head goes off and I can't stop watching television. I could ride a bike. I could get some work done. I could, theoretically, do my laundry or pull the weeds from the garden. There are any number of things I could be doing instead of watching ... http://nagasakiblues.com/archives/16