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No work accomplished today
I wanted to get some midterm grading done the past five hours, but I ended up entertaining Max instead. He wouldn’t go to sleep and Nam was busy putting together…
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Monkey Time at Kosamphi Forest Park
A few weeks ago we decided to go out for a drive. It was time to take Max for his first visit to the monkey park in the nearby town…
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smell my armpit
I forgot to post my instructional photo on how to harvest bananas, caveman style: Unable to hold the clump with one hand while chopping with the other (the clump was…
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Himiko’s Punch Perm (aka Pimiko’s Punch Perm – PPP)
As in, they have reconfirmed Himiko’s tomb as the kofun (burial mound) in Sakurai that T and Adam and I walked around on the way past Miwa Jinja on a…
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Baby Mantis
The other day I felt a spider running on my shoulder so I caught it in my hand. It turned out to be a baby praying mantis the size of…
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Away for a few…
The English Program at my university is leaving tomorrow at 5:30 AM for a four day trip to a national forest in Saraburi for our annual English Camp. It will…
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Volunteering in Kalasin
Last week a few of us teachers were asked to visit some classes being taught on a volunteer basis by our Business English major students out in Kalasin. We went…
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Birth of a U.S. Citizen Abroad, reported
Now all we have to do is wait for the results. If everything goes well I’ll go to pick up his passport in two or three weeks. The entire application…
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Rico Suuu
Have you ever stayed at a 5-star resort? I’ve done so on a couple of occasions, and Nam has done it a few times more than me, and we both…
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Half full
I just came in from picking chillies off our bushes in the front yard and began errantly picking my nose when checking email. At least I’ll never make that mistake…
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Murasaki Inu
A lifetime ago (13 or 14 years ago to be a bit more exact) I sat in a stuffy classroom in Tenri, Japan, and started penning my first essay in…
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Thai ATM Horror Story
So today turned out to be a big bummer because of the stupid Thai banking system. In short, I tried to withdraw 20,000 Baht from my Japanese bank with an…
