Friday, June 20, 2003 - 10:17a.m.
A co-worker told me the other day, out of the blue, "I'm never going on an elevator with you." Apparently he had a dream that he and I were in an elevator in a very tall building, and the lift malfunctioned and we fell a thousand meters to our deaths. ....Gee, thanks.
On the topic of dreams - I have been having really apocalyptic dreams ever since I moved to Tokyo. Dreams of crumbling buildings, huge earthquakes, war, nuclear mushroom clouds... *shudder* Maybe it's stress.
I also frequently have dreams in which I lose teeth. Never my front teeth, but my molars. And after the teeth fall out, new ones grow back. What do these dreams symbolize?? And yes, I brush and floss daily!!
A phallic? story for June:
I was trying to teach a kids class (containing 7 second/third graders) the word "gold." It was difficult to get my point across to kids that young using only English, but I pointed to my silver watch strap and said, "silver!" and then to the gold hands of the watch and said, "gold!" and they started nodding and saying, "AH! Kin ka!!" . Then one kid started on this soliloquy about kintama which literally is "golden balls" and mean... well, bluntly put, scrotum. He was telling his classmates (in Japanese, of course): "You know how they say kintama is gold balls, right? But of course, they're not really gold. I heard that inside, they're really green!" His classmates were giving him looks of admiration (they were mostly boys). I'm curious now... are there any people who are enlightened in medicine who can confirm this statement from eight-year-old Ryo?
Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 10:33 p.m.
mid-June obsessions:
--Captain Love: PS. A comedic simulation game on the theme of what love is.
--White Widow (Jim Lehrer) : A story of devastating lust.
--New Cinema Paradise (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso): I'm getting hooked on Italian movies.
I just realized I've been misspelling "pronunciation" my whole life. ...I've been spelling it "proNOUNciation." Argh. Other words I always have trouble is "advise/advice." I always have to stop and think which word I should use when I'm talking about the verb or the noun. Also the word "embarrass." How many r's and s's? And I also seem to forget the "i before e, except after c" rule when writing "receive" or "weird."
Ooh, I'm so excited about the Harry book!!! I'm having my book sent to me from amazon.com, but just in case it arrives when I'm not home, I'm having it sent to my workplace...
Friday, June 13, 2003 - 10:33 a.m.
Am I a bad human being? The other day, I was teaching a class of four kindergardeners, and one of them was really young and really snotty and slobbery and wet, and really grimy and sticky and dirty. All throughout the class, when the little boy was holding my hand, I kept on thinking to myself "EWW LET GO!!! I WANT TO WASH MY HANDS!!!"
Late May to June stuff:
--Dark Chronicle: PS2. I finally passed it!!
--Coraline (Neil Gaiman) : Spooky children's book.
--Chicago: Cool musical movie!
--Matrix Reloaded: Went to a preview and missed the last train.
--The Hours: It was rather difficult to understand...
--Hart's War: Colin Farrell~!!
--Life Is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella): *sob*
