… and some of them are funny. But, since I’m still working in analog that needs to get digitized via scanning, I am screwed as far as my desire to show you the pics at top speed. I also just worked a long freaking day. This overtime business… I taught 7 hours today, and then there was listening to the introductory speeches at teacher training. Most of the teachers had enough understanding to realize that the speaker was, for a good 15 minutes or more, explaining to students where they can eat in the neighborhood. I swear talking about food …

Coming soon is a tenuous title for this time of the year… after all, I’m about to embark on a protracted period of overtime work, and my time will be short for a while. Still, there are a few posts I want to make.

Okay, I was spelunking the stats application for my website, and I have to say, some of you people are quite odd. Someone actually found my site by searching the keywords “bob marley belly button rings” over at msn. And I also discovered hits from places like California (a massive number of hits in fact), Taiwan, Israel, and other places. Now, I know the hits misattributed as coming from “North Korea” are accounted for by my own visits to the site, and by those of some friends and students in Korea. I know of a few people in Virginia, Saskatchewan, …

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…

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 …