I’ve posted the last of the photos I took last January. Updates have been made to the Nakano, Food in Tokyo and People in Tokyo galleries, and I’ve created a Komaba gallery, which so far only features the people that I live with. Carry on…
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One of the biggest disappointments of adulthood is discovering that much of life is who you know, and not what you do.
For once, this worked in my favor.
The friend of a friend’s father happens to be a famous kabuki actor, and offered to get said friend two tickets to his latest show. She happily accepted, and took me along.
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Inevitably, and usually with great humor for everybody but the instructor, any good English teacher winds up sticking his foot squarely, firmly and ungarnished in his mouth.
Sometimes, it’s a conversation killer. When I asked a group class once what they did when they were 16 to illustrate “I used to…,” one woman replied, “I used to be a hostess when I was in high school.”
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To me, reading is gold. Reading is love, it’s escape, it’s fun, it’s educational, it’s just about the best thing I can do for myself.
I also, unabashedly, proudly, read comics.
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Sometimes I worry about the wiring in my head.
No, wait. That’s not such a good way to inspire confidence in my readers. But after reading this story about folks setting up casual sex partners using Bluetooth (hence the name) cell phone technology to ask random people on the London Tube if they want to get horizontal, I began to wonder how that capability would be used here.
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I’ve rarely been overjoyed at a conversation I’ve had with a student.
Chalk it up to a well-honed 20-something cynicism, or maybe boring students. Whatever the reason, I would never categorize my reaction to a student conversation as “overjoyed.”
Until now.
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