I will admit to having talked some smack about the Clarion West Write-a-thon, specifically to my two friends who are attending CW this year. I believe there was something said to the effect of, “You are going down!” Though whether this had to do with dominating in terms of quantity of writing (something NaNoWriMo . . . → Read More: Gearing up for the Clarion West Write-a-thon 2011
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A year or two ago, on the advice of my favorite yoga instructor (who had also studied Japanese), I started listening to the podcasts at JapanesePod101.com in an attempt to learn more about the language. And I quickly devoured their culture podcasts (I bought a membership to the site based on those podcasts), which where . . . → Read More: A piece of cake Week 1 of Japanese: Survived. After an introduction to why, linguistically, Japanese is a much easier language to learn than English, we’ve started in on learning hiragana, one of the three scripts (along with katakana and kanji) that we’ll be studying. This is the part of the class I’m most worried about. My . . . → Read More: Relearning to write While waiting to see the Orange Mighty Trio perform at Sea Change on Friday, I researched coal mining over drinks and dessert. I discovered the source of the word “undermining” (cutting out a space beneath a block of coal, during which process the miner would sometimes crawl under the block, hoping that it wouldn’t let go and crush him as he worked) and the hazards (and benefits) of mine rats. I thought their blend of classical music and jazz made for a wonderful soundtrack for the novel. By the end of the night, album in hand, I was off and running. I’m in the midst of many projects, with many irons in the fire. Here are a few just starting to heat up. . . . → Read More: In the midst |
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