Ah, how embarrassing! Yesterday (Saturday 11/19) I attended the graduate school Theme and Method event. For that our first year Masters' students (Hakase Zenki students) make short presentations about the topics that they are planning to write their second-year graduation theses (shushironbun) about, and answer questions about them. In recent years, we also on that day listen to a lecture by someone who in the past attended our graduate school and or taught in it. And then we have a party in the early evening. It's mostly a fun event, and is a good way for us to increase communication and camaraderie between students and teachers, because we are all kind of like a big family. Well, I did my best to dress up a little--I even wore a necktie, which I almost never do... And I had a great time at the party, eating tasty food (sushi, chicken, pasta, etc.) and drinking beer and chatting with students and teachers and so on. And I felt pretty good when I got home--until I walked in our door and my wife happened to see me and say, "Your fly is open!" Eeek! Achaa! I remembered visiting the toilet just before the party, so at least it wasn't open all day, but still--how careless to forget to zip it up! I will have to be careful in future to avoid such lapses in attention to detail. ANYWAY, last week was OK. We had a little earthquake during the Friday introduction to American Culture and Literature class about Where the Wild Things Are, and it was fun reading the picture book out loud to the students. In Culture class we had the first two group reports, one about street culture and one about American education, and they were fine, really, but I didn't leave enough time for questions and answers for the second group, alas. In my graduate school seminar, the three students and I cried over the end of Charlotte's Web. We had a Humanities meeting for nearly two hours, much of which I slept through. And I developed a bad right eyelid twitch! We're two/thirds of the way through Koki. I'm still in shock and disgust over the election... See you next weekend!
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