December 2009
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Dec 25th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 21st
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ListenI Go I Go I Go by Wave Machines Being in Japan,...
Dec 21st
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This is the view from my balcony today.  It’s been snowing like this for the past two days.
Dec 17th
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First Trailer for Iron Man 2 Yes, please!
Dec 17th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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William Shatner read some passages from Sarah Palin’s autobiography on Conan O’Brien on Friday, and then Palin showed up to read from Shatner’s book, too. (via inothernews)
Dec 12th
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helpful tip:
When you have to eat the school lunch in Japan, it’s always a good idea to sit next to a teacher who will eat ANYTHING. I have unloaded so much uneatable food on my desk-neighbor.
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Russell Brand on meeting the Queen. This man is brilliant, and he kissed me in LA once.  True story.
Dec 7th
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I'm sick
and it’s bad, but not really bad enough to keep me home from work, which is annoying.  Even if it were that bad, though, I might end up going to work anyways because taking sick leave is such a pain here.  You have to get a doctor’s note to take sick leave, which means you have to pay to go see the doctor, then you have to pay extra to get an actual doctor’s note from him/her,...
Dec 7th
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flavors.me/lawrencedenes →
sure, why not?
Dec 5th
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The first trailer for the remake of Death At A Funeral with Chris Rock. When I heard about this I was really skeptical because I love love LOVE the original, but after seeing this trailer, I’m only slightly skeptical.  The cast they got for this is absolutely fantastic.  And I’m so pleased that they got Peter Dinklage to reprise his role from the original.  I gotta say, though, Alan...
Dec 5th
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This is way overdue because basically I’m lazy, but here’s some video from one of my school’s “Sports Day,” which was way back in September.  The school divided into 3 teams and competed in races, tug of war, some tire pulling game, some piggyback fighting game, and cheers.  The kids really got into it and there was a lot of crying at the end of the day, both from the...
Dec 3rd
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While there are many things
about the Japanese school system that I think are really wonderful, there are a few things that I think are so bad it baffles me that they are actual policies. At the top of that list is this: It is impossible to fail in Japanese schools. No matter how poorly a student does, or even if they turn in every homework assignment blank, they will continue to advance through the grades and eventually...
Dec 2nd
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November 2009
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I forgot to mention
that I did, in fact, get a chance to see the Japanese remake of the movie Sideways, and while the general story was pretty much the same as the American version (a man about to get married and his friend go for a bachelor party trip of sorts in Napa Valley), the movie was basically wildly different.  At least, I think it was (I saw the original in theaters, which means it’s been quite a...
Nov 30th