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RMU English Skills Competition
This is what I’ve been working on the past couple of weeks in between teaching. It culminated in the actual competition yesterday, which went well except for the poor planning and execution of a couple events/aspects. The guilty parties won’t even admit there were problems, which is part of the problem, of course. At least, that’s the feedback from some of the school administrators who attended. Both from what I saw and the feedback survey, everyone else did really well; props all around. Our next event is the annual International Day. Preparation begins next week.
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Better not be crushed…
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Now Nam has a cold…
Which means that sick mommy is quarantined with sick toddler in the big bedroom and that Mina is keeping daddy busy. All night. She is fun to watch when she isn’t crying, but I guess that goes for all babies. Mina got a lucky bracelet from the temple for New Years.
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Max has a stomach bug or something
He threw up everything four times today. I thought he had gotten a bit better after he came with me to our faculty’s new year dinner and he chowed on steamed fish, but he threw it all up again after we came home. Oops. Had to strip sheets off of two king size beds and start drying mattresses with fans. We keep making him rehydrate, but dehydration is a fear since he throws up so much; we’ll take him to the clinic tomorrow. Mina is being no more or less cooperative than can be expected of a soft, pink, newborn potato lump.
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Nam and Mina
A photo from a couple weeks ago..
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The preview of the sequel to the best movie review, ever
I wish this news had come out before George Lucas was on the Daily Show last week because it might made his weak argument that the target audiences of the first three and last three movies are different, so it’s OK that the last three he made sucked a little easier to swallow. Let’s put this in perspective: The sequel to the review ripping the shit out of the movie is going to be more hotly anticipated by the original fans than the sequel itself was (the fans had seen the first one by then and knew it was all a sad downhill slide after the appearance of, say, Ewoks).…
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Psst… Mommy says it’s BEDTIME!
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Koyuki Highball
Japan’s greatest gift to the world of delicious beverages: The Kaku Highball Tell me you wouldn’t try that.
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Another Facebook Hack
This time it’s a systemic flaw that Facebook admits to; the gist of it is that if someone knows your e-mail address, they can find you even if you’ve restricted search privacy. Rogue Marketers Can Mine Your Info on Facebook Don’t be fooled by the title, anybody can mine your info this way thanks to the new privacy settings.
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runs
Yesterday I got food poisoning for the first time in a couple years; it was probably a bad spot of ground pork or chicken I had for breakfast. I started feeling queasy in the late morning and had Nam pick me up after she picked up Max from a half-day at nursery school (we’re sharing the Cefiro until Nam stats working again in a couple weeks because the insurance ran out on my Crown and I figured I could hold off on re-insuring until we really need two cars again – this whole week she’s been dropping me off at school, dropping Max off at preschool, and I’ve been walking…
