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class-y

Posted by Michael on 4 October, 2006

The instructor for my (what is essentially) Buddhism 102 class is, at this point in time, very iffy; but at least the assignments are interesting. The homework for next week?

Determine if I have a soul, or not.

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at long last it’s crashed

Posted by Michael on 29 September, 2006

Back into the school thing; gallery. Read the rest of this entry »

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project initiated

Posted by Michael on 15 July, 2006

Between sporadic tutoring sessions, Michael dreams and schemes. Read the rest of this entry »

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insert clever pun-reference re:schedule

Posted by Michael on 14 April, 2006

I'm lacking in a witty post title. Alas.

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induction junction

Posted by Michael on 2 April, 2006

So, yesterday was the welcoming ceremony / ..whatever the opposite of the graduation ceremony would be. Big auditorium filled with a thousand-odd students in dark suits, and their parents in an upper balcony row. Started off with a Buddhist (Bukkyo) monk performing some ritual (cleansing? start-fresh? blessing?), and ended with some kind of school-spirit cheerleaders doing a routine set to some dance-y Brazillian number. Took hours for the word "surreal" to finally pop into place.

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