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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Thursday, June 13, 2002 |
 Interestingly, there was an article in the Telegraph a week or so ago in which it was suggested that Blair would try to muscle in on any success the England team had. Strangely prophetic, or just a lucky guess (not that it would take much to predict this...)?
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Gekkin Live (one of Hiroshima's local evening news programmes) this evening mentioned that Blair had said that he'd visit Japan if England progressed to the semi-finals.
So there's a reason to hope that England lose, then...
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To Kirikushi Elementary School in the afternoon- lessons with the sixth-years and third-years. The children in Kirikushi are always well-behaved and eager (although the sixth-years this year could do with learning how to listen to explanations; even their teacher says they're very childish), but because the school requests so few lessons, it's difficult to do anything meaningful. There's no continuity because of the time between lessons (the last time I took these classes was more than two months ago), and, for the same reason, the children forget anything they've learned. Indeed, I basically did the same lesson today as I'd done two months ago- it wasn't a question of revising things, so much as doing them from scratch.
Yoshioka-kun decided he wanted to come along to see my lessons, so I took him along, although with the lessons being classroom-based (as opposed to 'running around' lessons), there wasn't really much he could help me with. Still, I think he might have gained a few more ideas.
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Forgot to mention this earlier, but Nagareda-kun turned up this morning looking (and making no secret of the fact that he felt) distinctly under the weather. It'll be interesting to see how his health check goes- and even more interesting to see the results...!
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This morning was the audit for the International Club's accounts. Two of the club members are elected as auditors, and they have to come and check the accounts before we hold the club's AGM. Well, either they were amazingly quick, or they weren't bothered, because from start to finish the whole thing took less than ten minutes. As far as I could see, all they did was to check a column of figures to make sure that the total was correct (which, given that it was a spreadsheet, was pretty likely). But anyway, the important thing is that the accounts for the last financial year are no longer my responsibility- the two auditors stamped their hanko to confirm that everything was in order, so everything is sorted. Now all I have to do is chair the AGM itself...
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By the way, the portrait of George W. Bush looks like a Spitting Image puppet...
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Found a superb site this morning. It's... the Jelly Belly jelly bean art gallery... While some of the likenesses are- well, let's be charitable and say they're tenuous- the very idea that someone would sit down and make a mosaic out of jelly beans is fascinating.
Some people have too much time on their hands...
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"Pull up the anchor. In full bail."
Yes, it's another T-shirt. Even given the relative correctness of the first part, why on earth would anyone want to wear something that said this?
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Updated: 8/1/03; 8:07:41 pm.
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