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I just realized that the cardboard tubes of my used-up toilet paper rolls have "まいどありがとうございます" or "Thank you for your continuing patronage" printed on them. I can't really think of any other place where the toilet paper tubes thank their customers.
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I got my very own birthday party this year, decorated and well-attended! Yay! Thank you sooo much AD for organizing the party and hosting it in your house. I hope the clean up wasn't too bad! And thanks to everyone for coming. I love seeing you all. Pictures and sounds to come soon.
Did I just make excessive use of exclamation marks?!!?
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What a whirlwind couple of weeks. I've been completely swamped with social engagements and actual work-work that I haven't had time to sit down and update for a while. Here are the major things that have happened:
I'm getting an extra day off this weekend, so I'll have some time to veg. I can't wait! Maybe I'll get some fun photos, videos and sounds up.
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Because we live on opposite sides of the international date line, SE and my birthdays actually overlapped and we got to be birthday people on the same day. Weeeeee!
So, I'm officially 28. Actually, for most of last year I was under the delusion that I was 28. Then I calculated my birthday a few months ago and realized, hey, I'm actually not 28! But I still felt like I was 28.
Therefore, when Steve asked me how it felt to be 28, I said, "Just the same. I was 28 last year too."
SE gave me an mp3 player which I immediately downloaded music onto and hung around my next on my way out the door. I felt myself melding into the "young set" as I silently mouthed along with my favorite songs and occasionally busted a move. He he.
There is also a mp3 recorder function. I went wild with that and recorded two of my classes at school, an English conversation with two girls who actually want to learn English so badly that they come to talk to me every week after school, and the near-entirety of the birthday party that Andrew organized for me. I think people really enjoyed me sticking my new recording device in their face. Yeah, baby, yeah.
In the future, maybe I'll use it more clandestinely, to record sounds on the street. Or maybe I'll use it to record my audition for American Idol or a broadcast karaoke show. Possibilities? Endless....
Now I have lots of samples of native speech to use in my English classes. I don't know if it is completely unrealistic to think that I will actually edit all these sound bites and use them, but at least I'll have them in the future for memories or a major electronic auto-biography. Or maybe if one of my friends gets famous, I can make good money blackmailing them. He he. (Rubs hands together and cackles like a bowl of Rice Krispies.)
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Remember that song and also the Eddie Murphey (not of Williams College fame) movie? Anyway... I just sold my soul to Bette Midler for an airplane ticket to the US in August. I am hoping to do one week in the San Francisco area and one week in the Boston area. Boston peeps, get in touch. See some of you in August! Yay!
I am hoping to see you all and gather some super cool materials for class. Things which appeal to the young set but is also usable in a low-level English class. I am also thinking of buying a sound recorder or video camera and recording real live native speakers doing every day things. Will YOU be the next victim? (Maniacal laughter in the background as the scene fades out to a black screen.)
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Tokyo Recontractor's Conference! (To be updated soon)
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