http://nagasakiblues.com you shall know our velocity Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:46:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "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 I've broken my unspoken promise to keep updating at least once a week, and I can't say it's because I've been busy. Quite the opposite, for the most part. The last few weeks have been very eventful, but at least during the afternoons I'm plenty available at work. I suppose ... http://nagasakiblues.com/archives/14 Today I have lost my finest students to graduation. Out the window, they're holding big boquets and failing in attempts not to cry and generally making a big mess out of their parents' attempts to take pictures, and I'm not going to see that again. Acknowledging the fact that there will be more students (even ... http://nagasakiblues.com/archives/13 Out the window, the ocean's doing this stellar trick where it catches the sunlight just so and scatters it like glitter on the half-hearted waves of the Ariake Sea. It is a beautiful day, and I'd almost forgotten them. When it's cold here, this place feels desolate. On the other hand, ... http://nagasakiblues.com/archives/12