Bardiac

Thanks for all the encouraging comments, folks. Please know that were my Mom to blog, you'd probably get to hear that I'm uncommunic...

In both senses. It's just after 11 pm. My Mom just came out of her bedroom to check if I'm not in bed yet. (She did the same thing...

I love King Lear . But just today, I find myself wondering which I'm more like, Regan or Goneril. I'm feeling guilty, and frustrate...

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I got a lot done today, mostly a visit to Kyoto, to see Nijo-jo , which was at one time the Shogun's castle in Kyoto, and is now a world...

I went to my last meeting of the English club today, which was fun and sad at the same time. I think meeting up with G, getting to know peo...

One of my students wrote a kick-ass final paper. Seriously good work! I'm going to pretend I had something to do with it, and go out to...

I try to warn my students to prepare for midterms and finals as an athletic event. If you're going to be clutching a pencil or pen for ...

I need better self-discipline about grading. I used to have better self-discipline, but I've lost some of it. I need to get it back. *...

There was a mid-size quake reportedly felt in Tokyo a couple days ago. The epicenter was out to sea, and so there wasn't a lot of damag...

Through the semester, I've gotten mildly frustrated by students coming in late to class. Weirdly, the class starts at 2:25pm. And ever...

I've blogged a couple times before about getting to know some folks here who are part of an English club that gets together every other ...

A student just came in to talk to me (before class, so she gets kudus for that) about turning her final essay in late. I told her I'd a...

I've been holding office hours for the past several days, and then last week (before a big four day weekend here). The final papers are...

Suggestions! I really appreciate the suggestions folks made for my fall classes . If you made a suggestion, please email me your snail addr...

I went out today with a friend, first to a shrine, and then to the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art for an exhibit of the works of AKI...

Last weekend, I went with some of the office staff and faculty to a Hanshin Tigers game. The Hanshin Tigers are the local professional base...

I have just under a month left here, and I'm mentally getting ready to go home. But I'm also conflicted about home. And in between...

When I first got here, on my first trip to Kyoto, I saw a couple maiko (apprentice geisha), and blogged about wondering if a geisha could be...

A number of people have been blogging about what's happening at the University of Toledo. New Kid on the Hallway wrote an especially i...