Chillin'
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Mahoroba is Japanese Arcadia
Max was overtired and sleep-deprived today, so he just threw a big fit on and off for a couple hours. It was impossible to get any work done, but I still love him with all my heart. ———- —- — — – – – — ———- —- — — – – – — Sometimes, though, I stay in the bathroom longer than I need to… And I’m not even reading. The ceiling fan turns and water from the shower drips with a steady rhythm… I’m hesitant to leave my sphere of tranquility. It seems that Thailand is my new Yamato and my bathroom is the precise location of Mahoroba. ———-…
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RIP Rapt7
My big white PC died today. Goodbye, brother. You served me well.
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Thai Superheroes
Among other subjects, I teach writing at my university. Writing is a subject that really helps identify certain types of students… like the girl who just today turned in a paper about Wonder Woman’s daily schedule, which included eating somtam every morning and helping people in need from 2 to 4PM everyday because “doing too much every day good causes stress and also acne.” Reading her paper brought back the days of learning to put together rudimentary sentences in hot Japanese classrooms… And it inspired me to challenge her class with more assignments that can be properly exploited by the clever ones. UPDATE: I’m grading papers at home and just…
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Portent
A couple nights ago I dreamed I flipped my car (the Crown) over and bench pressed it. I woke up and bench pressed Max instead. No complaints there.
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A conversation I just had
A: Why did you let the mouse escape from the (nonlethal cage-type) trap? B: I was trying to put it in a box! A: Why? B: I wanted to put it in the box and let it go outside somewhere… A. Why didn’t you just take the cage outside and let it go? B: There are ants on it! I hate ants! ….. A. Hi! I’m NOVA! (hey guys! maybe it’s time to update the old website…
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garfinken
I get this strange urge to slap people who sing I am a rock out loud*… It triggers my “anti-mime” reflex on some primal level. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////// * Yes, this happens with surprising regularity in both Japan and Thailand (I hear that Scarborough Fair is the more popular track in China though.
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aaaand…we’re back!
So apparently our telephone lines got waterlogged from one of the storms spawned by the cyclone last week…. Never heard that one before, but it was apparently enough to add resistance or noise that interfered with the synchronization of the DSL connection. Strange.
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Line down
Just a quick note: Our DSL at home is down after some big gusts from the big typhoon in Burma last week. Not sure what the problem is, but Friday was off so the telecom guys are enjoying a 3 day weekend. Updates will resume when out internet service does. Oh I almost forgot: My supervisor from school came over to see Max a couple days ago and he farted in her arms so loudly she almost dropped him. It was AWESOME WIND!!
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Isan News Update
It has been raining the past week, which is a rather curious development for this area this time of year. In fact, there was a pretty serious storm a couple nights ago and it rained fairly hard last night as well. The huge tract of land (future housing lots) behind our house has been filled in with shallow ponds (kind of returning it to its natural status of swamp, except elevated a couple meters with fill dirt), from which many noisy amphibians have emerged. This sudden spate of precipitation is in stark contrast to the first year I lived here, when I saw no real rain from October 2006 all…
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Nailed twice
Couldn’t find the original source for this one, but it earned a place here for giving me a good laugh: My dad’s Shih Tzu would hump on command: Jak! Humpy-humpy! It was awesome. (thx to FBO for the pic)
