http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com Less Professional Every Day Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:36:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I watched the movie Okuribito last night.  Look it up on wikipedia, it's an award-winning film about a former professional cello player who is forced to take a job as an undertaker to make ends meet, and is faced with the supposedly unjust scorn of his family and community.  It ... http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/20100215/the-bad-prejudiced-people-were-right.html If no one minds, I'll just make this my little space to work at forestalling the total loss of my English faculties. http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/20100206/hmm.html Growing up in Southern California, where everyone has a car, you wouldn't really come across the scene above. Things might just have been easier if they'd bought a smaller tree. http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/20081224/one-way-to-get-the-tree-home.html Indeed, they're just conducting research out there - research in both the fields of deliciousology and deliciousonomy.  Feast your mammalian eyes on this! By the way, I do think the beef-snarfers from the outside world are hypocritical to be all up in arms about this - but yes none of Japan's ... http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/20081215/whale-curry.html We've got a few younger women in our classes, singles who are getting the most out of their non-married years before some man comes along and not so much sweeps them off their feet as takes away their one leg to stand on. Most of them are pretty bright. ... http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/20081211/domesticity-kills.html Or more so than I am, at least?  I know I've got him beat on these things: -Time spent living here -Language -Cultural fluency -Interest in Japan And maybe a few more I haven't the sociological state of mind to come up with.  On any criterion besides the one with immutable physical manifestations, I win ... http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/20081208/is-my-dad-japanese.html who comes in for a trial, or rather I should say every student's mom, initially addresses me only in some variety of learner's English. After they are informed, or simply observe, that I speak Japanese as well they adapt with varying degrees of success - some not addressing me ... http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/20081203/every-student.html Business is good, what can I say? We're the best place in town and everyone knows it. Evidently enough people know it to drive one of our competitors out of business. I love having new students, and hearing them say they wished they'd known about us years ... http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/20081201/why-i-dont-post-that-much-either.html I'll admit what all two readers of this blog (which probably are simply Mark and I) have already noticed, how there hasn't been much in the way of posts coming from me. When I started this, I had more time since school-wise not much was getting done and that left ... http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/20081128/whats-made-posting-fewer-and-further-between.html It's probably not good to expect your language's onomatopoeia to translate well. Actually though, this would be impossible to render in the Japanese syllabary, answering for me the question of why they didn't just leave this in Japanese, but unfortunately leaving the one of whence they drew the inspiration for this ... http://www.liberatedpaprikafront.com/20081126/short-bus-gran-prix.html