There’s a bar in Winnipeg for people like me! Yes, a nightclub for the nerd in you, with servers wearing glasses instead of contacts and “go-go dancers dressed as sexy librarians.” Okay, it sounds a little cheesy, but it certainly sounds a step (even a short step) up from Hooters and the like. Though, of course, the real test of the place is what a server says when asked to give her opinion on, oh, Canadian reliance on American muscle or whether Ezra Pound was outright insane or a product of the 19th century trying to survive into the 20th. …
Month: October 2004
Bad Body Condition, Good Body Condition
Bad Body Condition is the name of an old trivia game team that used to play at the Jeonju trivia contests. I don’t remember if they won a lot, though I think Myoung and Thai were on that team. Not sure… Well, it also describes me, somewhat anyway. I was beginning to feel a little better, and then, Wham, Thursday I started sneezing again. Sneezing, nose running, and so on. I’ve no idea exactly why though I think my using mosquito spray inside the house triggered some of it. Somehow I got through my first class, and stomped up the …
Thinking Back
Laura‘s short Friday Five question for the week is this: “There was a light and then someone hit me…” What are your five earliest memories? This is really a difficult question for me. I don’t remember so much from my early childhood, so I’m going to have to think hard to answer this. Excuse that smoke smell, it’s my brain scalding. I remember going out to the coast and staring out into the ocean. When I was a kid we lived in Nova Scotia and I have this strong memory of going to some kind of bay which was shaped …
‘Nother Damable Quiz
Apparently, I’m evil. You are <blink> There’s no two ways about it – you’re pure evil. Sure, there may be a few people who say you’ve got a good soul deep down, but really, you’re irredeemable. Right? Which HTML tag am I? at workingwith.me.uk I found this on Persephone’s Synaptic Misfire.
Korean Pedagogy
I have another question here, and anyone who can answer from experience would be appreciated if they could give me a little information. Can you please describe, in whatever detail you like, what the standard kinds of teaching methods are in a standard Korean classroom? I’m not especially interested in a language classroom; history, civics, art classes, and other subjects are just as important to me. Last night I went out to dinner with the English teachers from the high school where I am teaching a few hours a week, a sideline approved by my current employer. The English staff …
Marmot’s Sex Trade Articles
Over at Marmot’s Hole is a semi-recent series of posts about the sex trade, to one of which — Prostitutes need to eat, too! And where have all the Japanese gone? Canada? — I have posted a lengthy comment on what I think (yes, as a foreigner) can be and should be done regarding the sex trade and the status of women in Korea. And GI Korea also has some good thoughts about prostitution and, well, GIs in Korea.
Wanna Do Your Bit For Science?
Columbia’s got an experiment going on about how people rate and choose to download music. I wish I could say that the free MP3s it offers are worth it, but I hated most of the songs, which often sound like stereotypical versions of punk rock, metal, and indie-garage amateur attempts at, well caricature. But some people might appreciate the stuff on offer. And even if you hate every track, you should try it out to help those scientists who are trying to figure out how we decide what we like, how we rate it, how we act on our spoken …
Prescription and Pharmacist and A Weird Question
Does anyone know a reason why one would not eat pork or chicken while on basic, normal antibiotics? If anyone can explain this to me I would appreciate it. I’ve been busy, so I’ve not posted much. I appreciate all the comments and emails in hopes of my recovery. I am feeling mostly better right now, but I am being dreadfully cautious about my energy, about sleep, about taxing myself. I am taking relaxation quite seriously these days. Yesterday I visited the doctor and I wanted to highlight the fact that it was an excellent experience. The doc, despite his …
Simon’s Done It Again
He’s done it again. No, not mentioning me, though he did link to my post about AllLookSame?. I mean Simon’s put together a great digest of links from pan-Asian blogs. There are some really interesting things there, especially about Japan’s Rape of Nanjing (and a cartoonist writing about it) and North Korea. Go and take it all in. Because you can.
Oh, To Return…
I’m running rather late on this, but I’ll try for an answer just the same. Dan asked on Friday: In all your life’s travels, what are your five favorite spots that you’d most like to visit again to be able to share the spot with friends/family? Was it the place itself or the experiences you had there? To be honest, I still feel relatively poorly traveled compared to a lot of people I know. So it’s going to be a little difficult to answer this question. But I’ll try my best: Rue Ste.-Laurent, Montreal. I think I’m remembering the name …