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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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Friday, July 19, 2002 |
 Natto
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Chuugen
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Can't see Nomi
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Buildings
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Speaking of articles, the Navy article is still not out of my hair. I phoned Tokyo about the school name problem, and it turns out that the editor who asked me to write the article is having second thoughts about changing the name after all...
I still have to decide on the title, too...
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I wonder what happened to that article I was asked to write? Despite all the rush while I was in Matsue, they never got back to me...
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CDs, or pieces of music, worthy of mention...
Why does it always rain on me? by Travis
Primarily because this is exactly what I feel today. Twice I left the office; twice it started to rain. In the end I gave home and rode home in the rain.
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In Japan, there is a custom of meguri, which means something
along the lines of 'going round visiting things'. There's
onsen-meguri, which is visiting one hot-spring after the other,
or reijo-meguri, which is the custom of visiting lots (about 100,
if my memory serves me correctly) of temples around the island of
Shikoku.
Well, I'm going to add another meguri to this list:
cash-machine-meguri. It seems that every time I go to get money,
the Japanese woman in front of me (and it almost invariably is a woman)
will not only spend enough time at the cash machine that I forget what
I'm withdrawing money for, but then will go straight across the road to
the next cash machine, and spend six or seven hours in there as well.
Presumably they then go on to yet another cash machine, but I've never
been able to watch that far...
Anyway, what is this 'custom'? Why do
so many Japanese women spend their days (whole days!) just wandering
from cash machine to cash machine? What do they actually do? How
much money do they withdraw? Do they then put the money into the next
machine? Is it some sort of sophisticated cash-laundering operation?
Could I get a whole doctoral dissertation out of this?
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I got my jinji-ido tsuchi-sho today; the head of the office read
it out formally, and passed it over to me. So I'm employed for the next
twelve months, then (which, given Wednesday's little episode, is a
relief).
The head of the office also said that further renewals of my
contract should be possible for as long as I wanted, which is also good
to know.
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I hate having to deal with incompetent people.
I went to the Junior
High School this morning to talk to the third years about studying
English during the summer break; it had been arranged that I should turn
up just before nine o'clock. Well, I'd assumed that turning up just
before nine meant I'd be able to speak at nine, or just after nine. But
I assumed wrongly. It turns out that I arrived at nine, so that I could
sit around wasting time until 9.35. How annoying.
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Breakfast Show Staple Randomhaiku of the day (from The Genuine Haiku Generator)
ferryboats clamor
eels rhapsodize, lazy clear prune
searching, flatly, proud
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