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Institutional bias, failed plans and self-inflicted torture

Rage against the World!

Quite a bit has happened since my last post back in February. Did your world darken while I was away? Or brighten up? Hmm. Don’t answer that question, whatever your answer is. I have this niggling feeling that my draftsmanship has deteriorated during my long sabbatical. The only things I wrote during that period were dull law notes taken during revision classes. Hour upon hour of torture. It screws with your head, and not in a good way. Continue reading Institutional bias, failed plans and self-inflicted torture

Checklist: Emigration

What to do, where to start…

Holiday season now, at least until late August. So now’s the perfect time to get started on the difficult task of ‘emigrating’ to- no, I’m not leaving this country, so don’t weep… I’m just preparing for an eventual move from this WordPress blog to a free [...]

Photoshoot: Prospective Supermodels and Violent Plushies

日本語をもっと使わぬとやばいから、今回日本語でポストしてみる。確かに…二回目かな?少ないよね…で,今日のポストはダン二さんのサイトで見た「00長門」を凌ぐために書いた。なんだか理不尽な理由見たいけど、まあいっか。さて、始めようかな…

Just to make sure my Japanese doesn’t rot without my classes, this post will be in Japanese, with simple English (and slightly different) underneath. I do believe this is the second post I’ve done in Japanese… anyway, this is a response to a post entitled “00 Nagato“. Moving on…

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こなたに羽だと!!

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It's 2009, and I'm still waiting. Hurry up already!

Well, well. I rarely bother reposting things I’ve seen on other news sites, but this was just too interesting/amusing to pass up: According to a post on sankakucomplex.com, a prominent ‘alternative’ Japanese news site (it’s often unsuitable for work, unlike dannychoo.com), Hirano Aya, seiyuu best known for providing the voice behind characters such as [...]