Quote of the Day (by previously mentioned student)
"I had a bowel movement. So, I feel good today."
Dude, I fell on the floor laughing. I think the laughing is encouraging him which is awesome. Ive never been able to motivate a student to learn through laughing at him/her before. Usually they get all self-consious with the why-are-you-laughing-at-me face. This could be a whole new school of pedagogy.
Well, got hit by a car coming home from work today. There was a fast approaching storm and I was trying to outrun it. On MY bike with a busted ankle, didnt know what the heck I was thinking.
There are a lot of intersections in my city that have no corners and high fences. This lady pulled out a little too much as I was going by and BANG!
I think her car took more damage than I did. The chain popped off my bike but I scrached the fuck out of the front of her car. She was mortified, thought that I was dead or something. She saw me limping and I think she started to contemplate the ol ritual suicide but I showed her my cast. By the way, how the hell do you say "Old Injury" in Japanese?
It seems I am narrowly averting serious injury left and right here. As FU might say, "DEATH!"
God bless the dictionary. . .
I had a student come up to me and say the following two things. First, " John sensei, I have a bad case of diaherria." Then, "I'm having trouble making stool." Takes me back to the middle school (and beyond) days when I used to look up bad/disgusting words in the dictionary. I though those days were over, until I got to Japan and realized that I could use those electronic Japanese/English dictionaries to look up bad words in Japanese. Score!
Just got back from my trip to New Orleans. I want to give a shout out to all the peeps who took care of me while I was there. I think I will give you guys the low down in list form.
Things that I lost while intoxicated in New Orleans*
1. My University of Arizona credit card
2. My brothers cell phone
3. My virginity
4. The Walmsley house key (which precipitated me jumping a six foot high fence)
5. My wallet (seperate from the credit card incident)
6. A pair of shorts
7. A shirt
8. My dignity
9. A couple of screws from Kara's sunroof
10. about 10 million brain cells
11. My luggage (though that is Northwest Airlines fault, still havent gotten it back yet)
Injuries accrued during this trip
1. Scorching sunburn on legs, arms and back
2. Deeply bruised big toe on right foot (ultimate frisbee injury)
3. Slightly fractured ankle and partially torn ligament in left foot (seperate ultimate injury)
4. Scared shitless (I guess that would be an anus injury) while driving-no skidding and pulling a 360- across two lanes of I-10 traffic at 70 miles per hours when Karas car caught a nail throwing her sun roof to the winds. Best near death experience ever.
People who I love who I got to see over this vacation and would like to thank profusely for the great time.
1. Mom
2. Rob
3. Ben
4. Doug
5. Beerdo
6. FU
7. Arthi
8. Mark
9. Andrea
10. Cam
11. Kara
12. Todd
13. Tory
14. Pam
15. Janet
16. Dan
17. Julie
18. Lisa (the new 8th roommate)
19. E. French
The list goes on and on, sorry if I cant remember
There was a shitload of people who I still didnt get to see while I was in town. The foot and the car accident slowed me down considerably. Thats too bad.
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The JazzFest itself was awesome. I got to see three days of action and I was pleasently surprised by many bands that I had never heard of before. Smitty Dees Brass band for one. These guys put on a great show at a side stage and just torn it up. The food was something else as well. The seafood cornbread, crawfish, crawfish patty, oyster and artichoke soup in a bread bowl, crawfish beignets, just plain biegnets, strawberry lemonade, crawfish monica, mango freeze and did I mention the seafood cornbread? God damn that food was awesome.
On Friday, we went tubing (the origin of the aforementioned sun burn). 5.5 hours on the Bogachitta River. Tom Beers intertube got popped by a sharp somethingand immediately sank. His tube was tied to the cooler tube and quickly became an anchor. We sat around and laughed at Beer struggling with the tube and the current for a good 20 minutes or so. There was also a few Bigs' butt crack sightings. Tubing is good for that.
Overall, I had an awesome time. I only took one roll of film that got wet so I dont know if it will come out. Im hoping. I need to get some pictures from Dougs so I can post. Oh shit, I need to call Doug. Its been on the list for the last two days but I havent done it yet. So tired. . .
* As proposed by Tom Beer