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 …