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Back by popular demand - Mr.Handpanda belts out another karaoke hit! The JET midyear conference is tomorrow, which means I should a) be sleeping already b) have dealt with the fact that I have no clean clothes already c) probably have found the information sheet I lost earlier last week already. and people say I procrastinate!! *harumphs* Well I never! Anyway, I just didn't want to leave it a whole week without an update -...
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Posted on: 01/28/2004 03:31 PM
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Super cute pandas just waiting to be GETS'd...! M came down to visit this past weekend, which happened to coincide with the coming of one of the worst snowstorms in recent history. After spending almost 8 hours on what is normally a 2.5 hour train ride (train got stuck due to snow), she was pretty pooped and we ended up spending most of the weekend inside, which was just as well seeing as how it...
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Posted on: 01/26/2004 03:31 PM
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Dear Mr./Mrs. JET Administrator. Hello! My name is Mr. Panda and I want to thank you for sending me to the freezing ass end of Japan. I know that on my "location request" form I wrote down such wonderfully warm places as "Kobe" "The Kansai region" and "Okinawan Islands", but I appreciate that in your infinite wisdom you took that to mean "Please send me to the coldest place on Honshu one can possibly fathom"....
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Posted on: 01/22/2004 03:31 PM
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Snowy panda. Note super cool neck gaiter from back in the states. Wow, so it's snowing a lot tonight. This picture doesn't do it justice - this is the snow that was left on my body after I put away my bike, walked up three flights of stairs, fished around for my keys, got in my apartment, took off my shoes, put away my perishable groceries and then hunted around for my camera. Believe me,...
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Posted on: 01/21/2004 03:31 PM
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Kind of sleepy, so this will mainly be a picture post. One of my new year's resolutions - to be a better teacher - seems to be paying off as a back-to-the-basics approach coupled with copious amounts of panda patience have generated what must be a milestone achievement - one of my classes actually did homework...! I am Tom Cruise. My l33t samurai skillz ownz j00r's. Well, technically, nobody really did it at "home" persay...
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Posted on: 01/18/2004 03:31 PM
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Today was like one gigantic bad-weather hairball all rolled up in a divine kitty's throat and hacked up upon an unsuspecting populace. I mean, it snowed, rained, sleeted, hailed and practically hurricane'd all within the span of eight hours - despite my head to foot raingear, I got soaked to the bone and almost blown into a drainaged ditch three times on my harrowing bike ride home from school. Goodness gracious!! Panda shows the effects...
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Posted on: 01/13/2004 03:31 PM
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I made an interesting discovery the other day - Japanese girls love Velveeta cheese. Velveeta - "Melts better and 1/2 less Fat than Cheddar Cheese" A while back, my family sent me a big box of goodies from the states, and included in the box were a variety of foodstuffs, including Velveeta cheese. Anyway, M came to visit me a couple of weeks ago and for dinner one night, I ended up making some grilled...
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Posted on: 01/10/2004 03:31 PM
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First of all, my deepest thanks to everyone for their words of support on my last post. I really and deeply appreciate it. Waiting for a train while watching a cold winter sunset... Things are slowly moving on here in the House of Panda. Today marked the inevitable return to work for me, my oh-too-short panda holiday having sadly come to an end. I returned to the office to find the teacher that sits next...
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Posted on: 01/07/2004 03:31 PM
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Things have been stressful here for the past couple of days; a less than pleasant ending to my winter vacation. First of, as many of you have no doubt noticed, my images haven't been displaying. This seems to be due to the fact that my web host has either a) had a catastrophic server failure or b) gone out of business without bothering to inform me. My website is completely dead, I don't have FTP...
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Posted on: 01/05/2004 03:31 PM
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Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a fun, safe New Year's eve! *sniff* another year, another Tarepanda calendar gone into storage... Here in Japan, there are a variety of customs which are supposed to be observed on New Year's day (oshougatsu). Feeling particularly "cultural" today, I decided to do my best to follow some of them. First of all, New Year's day is a holiday to be spent with your close family and relatives....
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Posted on: 01/01/2004 03:31 PM
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