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Okay, a more significant lowlight: my dad is in hospital.
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It is serious, and increasingly so. He's being sent off to a psychiatric hospital imminently.
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So sorry to hear that, arren.  I hope his condition improves soon.
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Thank you for your kind words. I haven't heard anything new, and I suppose no news is good news, but I'm still worried.
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Weirdlight:
I went to a short lecture on Sadakitchi Hartmann (1867 to 1944) this evening, (looks at the clock) well, last evening and it was a small affair with some chairs set up in our local Library, maybe 60 people and I enjoyed it. He was quite a character and wrote poetry in general as well as Haiku; Tanka (a form that I had never heard of) and other short poems.
Where the narrator (Bill, a friend of mine) was standing, the light was glaring off of the screen and he was having trouble reading a sample of Sadakitchi's Haiku. After a few false starts, He asked if anyone could read it and I, without thinking about it, did so. Later in his talk there was an example of a Tanka poem and another longer poem and Bill asked me if I would read those as well.
I asked for a moment to look at the poetry to try and pick up on the 'metre' or 'tempo', so to speak and did so. The last two lines of the last poem, I should have delivered a bit differently, leaving a slight pause before the last two words, "my love" before continuing on to the last line. But I suppose that I did well enough, seeing as I hadn't seen the verses before...
Weird evening, but a HL: as well, as I met some old friends that I haven't seen in years, including a past Mayor.
As for the talk, I did enjoy learning about this unusual man who was an acquaintance of many actors (both stage and screen), poets, artists and writers, dancers, all of which he did himself! He had friends such as Walt Whitman, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Anthony Quinn and many, many others who wrote back and forth to him and came out to the desert where we live to visit with him... I can recall only a few of many, many mentioned throughout the talk.
I will be reading some more of him in the future... I knew of him as an exccentric character who lived with his family in a shack that he built himself out on the Indian Reservation outside of town. Everyday, he's walk into town 2-1/2 miles to the post office to pick up his mail from all over the world.
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Sheesh LL:
The sun is coming up and I haven't even been to bed yet...
Goodnight, all...
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quote:
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LL: I hate British trains. -__-
That's probably a reasonable feeling after returning from Japan.
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Just had a bit of an arduous journey home which was compounded by late trains. -.- And indeed, speaking generally our trains are disgraceful in comparison to Japan's, on top of being the most expensive in Europe.
HL: barbecue. :3
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Hey, I'm alive and I'm moving to Hokkaido soon! I should probably be able to see NC during our orientation.
I just bought a functioning laptop (rip bank account) after endless problems with my last one.
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Wow, it's been a while! Good to hear from you FFF. Where in Hokkaido will you go? I went to Sapporo for a few days once and it was nice, but I imagine JETs are more likely to be sent somewhere more out of the way.
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Wow, it's been a while! Good to hear from you FFF. Where in Hokkaido will you go? I went to Sapporo for a few days once and it was nice, but I imagine JETs are more likely to be sent somewhere more out of the way.
There's a decent number in Sapporo but I'll be living in a small city about two-three hours away from Sapporo. JET has been expanding a lot in the past couple years so there are more in Tokyo, Osaka, etc. now than previously. Besides NC, two of my friends also got Tokyo.
I got exactly what I asked for, maybe because this was my third time trying. lol I've had a lot of people push for me to get into the programme and I've been pretty emotional since I got accepted.
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Lowlight: Had the JLPT today. The reading section wasn't as bad as it has been in the past, but I struggled a bit with the other parts. I suppose we'll see.
Highlight: At least it's over now! And whatever the result, I think I won't take it again unless absolutely necessary.
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and I'm NOTTT!!! 
laptop, we might be able to hear from you more...