As I sit on the couch this lovely lazy Saturday afternoon and think about the movie we watched last night, Salju is trying to ooch into my lap. Ooching is the army crawl doggies do when they’re told to lay down and stay, but they MUST BE NEAR THE FOOD. Ooching is what cats do when they know Mommy doesn’t

In class Saturday the professor had all of us introduce ourselves (groan) and say where we’d come from, why we’re taking the class, and something unique about ourselves. I always feel like a dip when I say “Oh, yea, and I speak Chinese” which seems just so self-absorbed. My Chinese isn’t stellar anyway, so making that claim isn’t the most

Yesterday was about 80 degrees. Today is in the 20s. That’s weather in Texas. What is cool, though, is the way the local media makes it into a major event. “Arctic Blast”…”Blizzard Blast”…”Bitter Blast” This is how “snow” looks in Texas, ok. My grandmother has had feet of snow in Pennsylvania already, but Texans freak out over this. Ya know

I need to get something off my chest, and it got on my chest because of a page I saw while previewing another Japanese language learning book: Language Poseurs It just pisses me off. Many Americans who learn Japanese are learning it in the hopes of reading manga, or meeting chicks, or watching anime. The anime and manga don’t bother