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Feather duster
While standing on the street in Minami Azabu, waiting for my DigitalEve mentoring group to arrive for a meeting last night, I fulfilled a small desire. I popped into a nearby household goods shop and scanned the aisles for cleaning supplies to find, in a box next to a bunch of mop heads and cotton…
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Bono, I
I was tipped off yesterday by my friend that her husband’s nickname for me (to differentiate me from her other foreign friends) is Bono. My likeness to the rock star has been discussed before and I’m not entirely convinced. What do you think? I like Bono’s style so I’m not complaining. It could be much…
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Shortly before I was
Shortly before I was assigned to review it as part of the Peer to Peer Review Project, Kaye Ellis ended For Always. What a pity; Kaye is a promising writer. Her prose is clear and expressive with a strong voice that carries emotion. She has a natural gift that many ‘blog writers lack. In the…
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Rich man, poor man
Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. What do I want to be when I grow up? I must be going through a career crisis at the moment. Yesterday I spent 7 hours programming and documenting 21 lines of PHP code. It was fun, but difficult. Last week, I had a…
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Family birthday clusters
Why do family birthdays seem to cluster together? Are there genetic cycles of fertility? My niece, Helen, turned ten on Wednesday; today is my sister’s birthday; mine is in three days. My in-laws have birthdays mainly in late autumn except for my husband and our nephew who share a birthday in early May. It’s odd.…
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Before/after drawings
My pre-instruction self-portrait. I did this in about 30 minutes; it was gruelling. My self-portrait drawn five days later. This one took around six hours but I hardly noticed the time passing.
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Drawing jetlag
Last Thursday, Kristin told the drawing class, “The day after the workshop ends, you’ll feel really jet lagged. Like you’ve been on a long trip.” I thought that was an exaggeration but she might be right. I feel like I’ve just stepped off a 12 hour flight. I’m tired after all this right brain drawing.…
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I just finished day
I just finished day 2 of a five day drawing class at Right Brain Research and my brain is switched over into R-mode; the logical left side is almost shut down. I see the shapes of everything–it makes it difficult to type because I notice the spaces between the keys and the pattern of letters…
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We broke the toilet
We broke the toilet seat. Maybe it was already broken and we just noticed it. Or perhaps (most likely) it was about to break and our big, gaijin butts were the straw that broke the camel’s back and cracked the plastic seat. Having just moved into this new building, I figured I’d better ask the…
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