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The good: Just got back from a walk around the neighborhood. There was a festival going on up near our station, so Megumi and I walked up to the soccer field, where they had a bunch of people playing drums and dancing and stalls set up to sell beer and fried noodles and such. Summer festivals are the best part about summer in Japan. (The summer weather is the worst.) We drank beer and awamori (Okinawan booze) and ate noodles and boiled soybeans and listened to the music. Fireworks for the finale´. Great stuff.
The bad: The weather, and the work I have to do this weekend. Must wrap up another 10-15 pages of this article on Chinese and Japanese views of history, and how they lead to trouble. I might have to give up and close the windows and fire up the air conditioner. We’re an eco-friendly house usually but this is getting ridiculous.
The good: On the way back from the festival we found a restaurant we hadn’t seen before. Italian joint. Great selection of wines, wonderful snack-style food (we had the mozzarella/tomato salad and the prosciutto with fresh figs), and very affordable prices . . . Plus the guy who runs the place says he stays open until two most nights. So we’ll be heading there again.
The bad: Got home and looked at email, and there was a note from a woman who’s scheduled to teach a class this summer at the language school whose translation program I coordinate. Sudden crisis in her life. She might not be able to hold herself together for the class. So I might have to take on an extra six classes later this month. Not to complain about an extra 180,000 yen coming in, but that’s a lot of evenings I don’t know if my schedule can take at this point . . . I’ll probably suck it up and take care of it just the same. (When there are three classes a week you can’t assign much in the way of homework, which means there isn’t as much to deal with outside of classroom hours; that’s one nice thing about this item.)
The good: Got a package from my brother and his wife. New sticks of RAM for the computer. I have the home machine up to 2GB, which will definitely tide me over until there’s a sweet new Intel-based Mac on the market for me in a couple of years. Memory is good.
So hot . . . Time to get some sleep.
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