Well, my camera chord is still in Sanpoku. My sanity, I know not where. My workload has increased quite a bit (yea, verily, more even), hence the two week lag in between posts. I don't really have time for a proper post today either (perhaps never will until I get internet in my apartment- which is a process unto itself. I swear I can hear the jingling of bells and smell the fumes of an animal upon the altar whenever I try to approach the issue), but, just so everyone knows that I am still alive, here are some items from the last two weeks.
1. My Denshi Jisho's (electronic dictionary's) entry for "oblivion" utilizes the drug "Nembutal" as an example: "He took two Nembutal and slipped into oblivion."
2. For whatever reason, the bunkasai (culture festival) at one of my shogakkos had a sugar cane plant standing in with the exhibits of PTA-created art. No name plaque. No explanation. Just a random sugar cane plant. Now that the festival is over, it has been dismembered and the stalks lie in a box in the teacher's room, awaiting I know not what fate. At any rate, we've got sugar cane here in Arakawa-machi, Japan.
3. For whatever reason, "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" are in wide parlance here, but not the word "vampire." Just one of those things that you discover teaching English around Halloween.
That's all for now. Hopefully (and I know I said this a long time ago) I will get my camera chord back and be able to actually post some photos. Until then...you know...hang tight.
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