Trackback should be working now… now on to getting my Awasu news aggregator all set up, and testing my own RSS feed (and making it available on my site). No rest for the wicked…
Month: July 2003
The Snow Country – Yasunari Kawabata (…and my musings on Western and Japanese modes of reconciling civilized life with human emotions…)
(I should begin this by saying I don’t know a damned thing about Japan. I know a few books, a few movies, and I’ve known a few people, but my knowledge of Japan relies solely on this. Therefore what I am writing about here involves a lot of what I imagine or induce from the literature and art I know about. It could be grossly erroneous. As always, if you think so, please do comment and tell me what else I should see, read, listen to, or look at. That said…) I have just, a few minutes ago, finished reading …
Times and Activities
Here’s a handout to be used with 20-sided dice, which works on present perfect and on telling times. The idea is, the students roll twice, to obtain a time and to obtain an activity. Then they role play phone calls from one to the other, at first just answering the phone and roleplaying as if they were in the middle of that activity. After a few tries, get them doing followup questions. Of course, the phone call is coming from overseas and the friend who is calling has no idea what local time is. So students get practice at transforming …
Pain
So here’s what I have learned in the last few days… 1. It’s amazing how radically your view of a situation can change. Sometimes pain is self-inflicted, and very often I think the effects of emotional pain of this type can be overcome far more easily than one imagines. 2. It’s amazing how quickly back pain can result from improperly executing the head motions in the butterfly stroke. We’ve just begun learning to do it. I made a joke in Korean about how our classs used to look like a bunch of retarded frogs, but now we look like retarded …
Illicit/Impossible: Romantic Neuroses and History
History isn’t always what is convenient, comfortable, or acceptable to us, as I’m reminded reading this article sent to me by my friend John Wendel, about what’s going on at Thomas Jefferson’s old estate, Monticello. Here’s a snippet: The country has been fascinated for the better part of two centuries with the question of whether Jefferson followed his father-in-law’s example and fathered children by Elizabeth’s daughter, Sally. Leading historians who doubted this have done an about-face since genetic evidence linked Jefferson to one Hemings child. There is a growing consensus that Jefferson fathered most, if not all, of Sally’s children, …
trying some more…
GatorLog: All things Weblog This fellow left a trackback on my website, but it’s not working I think I shall have to spend Thursday figuring out why. Anyway, it was very nice of you, Gatorlog, and I really appreciate your thoughts and explanations. I realize that power means different things in Korean. I knew about the electricity because I tried saying it to one of the office girls the other day, my CD player is out of “him” and she looked at me like I was crazy for a second. Anyway, your thoughts were interesting. And believe me, I find …
not working?
eclexys: Power, Power, Power, and Power: Musings on Language, Categories, and Isomorphisms http://www.gatorlog.com/more.php?id=105_0_1_0_M I wonder why this isn’t working properly. My trackbacks code seems to be in order, but…
mt trackback test
Here is page about TrackBack Development, and I’m just using it for a test on my own trackback system, which should be working but which isn’t. Hm…
소식
소식을 좀 만 있어요… 1. 어재 밤에 수영 다시 시작 했어요… “butterfly” 해음 배우고있지만 뒤를 엄정 앞으고 있다! 그런데 재미이자나… 내 생각에는 다시 갈거예요. 2. 어재도 머리 잔었어요. 지금은 12mm 만 있엉요! 시원하다! 다른 소식을 쓰기 싫어 하지만 모두 잘 해요. 새로운 사진이 보고싶 스며, 이 페이지에 가고 다른 사진이 이페이지에서 볼수있어요! 펭이지들이 내 영어 블록에 있어요. 나중에 봐요.
개털로그 한테
개털로그 한테… 와! 논평이 고마워요! 네, 광주에 가봤어요. 광주에서 우리 밴드 (다방 밴드)는 공연 연주 했어요. 곡스 (Gok’s) 라이브 클업을 알아요? 그 클럽에서 연주 했어요. 언재 한국어 왈거예요? 그리고, 언제 미국에 갔어요? 당신의 블록에서 다른 논평을 보고 재미있었어요. 어 공부를 어려워요! 화이팅! FIGHTING!