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He was tall, and strong, and he could do anything. I keep thinking those words, over and over again. He was smart, he could make anything. That was what my daddy was, to me, when I was younger. And if it turned out later that he wasn’t tall, god was he strong.
He was depressed. Very […]
Filed by shaun at October 14th, 2010 under indifferenthonest
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So you walk home between the rice fields, and the moon isn’t out, but all your other old friends are: Orion for the first time this year, and the little bear and great, and even elusive Draco, all spread out across the enormous night above you. And the occasional headlights from behind make every step […]
Filed by shaun at October 1st, 2010 under indifferenthonest
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Let’s talk a bit about the grammar of the self, shall we?
As a(n assistant) language teacher, you spend a lot more time thinking about grammar than most people. Clauses and tenses are less automatic.
I realized just now that, barring narrative or a lower-level English student, there is only one tense that is really appropriate for […]
Filed by shaun at September 3rd, 2010 under indifferenthonest
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New ALTs (Assistant Language Teacher; me) are coming. If this were only a canyon instead of a basin, I’d have a great Mamas & Papas quote for a title (they are all young girls). This meant my (self-imposed) duty was to e-mail and brief them on the area. It was a bit of a challenge […]
Filed by shaun at July 17th, 2010 under indifferenthonest
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I’m happy, very happy almost all the time now, because I honestly love teaching, and I live in a gorgeous and interesting place, and materially am pretty comfortable. But even with all this happiness (most of the time I drive home from work just amazed at how great my day was, even on the relatively […]
Filed by shaun at May 23rd, 2010 under indifferenthonest
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13 days left to go, and about one suitcase-worth of extra stuff to squeeze in somewhere. The baggage allowance is two bags of 50lbs each plus the carryon and personal item, and international shipping is insanely expensive for anything larger than small parcels. While harsh evaluation along the lines of whether any ceramic skull candy […]
Filed by shaun at September 30th, 2009 under indifferenthonest
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I’m moving to Japan next month.
Filed by shaun at September 4th, 2009 under indifferenthonest
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Daniel N Robinson, at the end of a lecture about psychology and the witch hunts in early modern Europe:
What is the moral tale that I hope to have conveyed with this story about minds possessed?
First, theories come quite easily to us when we seek to explain the aberrant or eccentric behavior of others. Secondly, we […]
Filed by shaun at September 3rd, 2009 under indifferenthonest
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