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I have no internet at home. Again. This time it's my fault. Sorta. My internet provider changed its name and started sending me bills with different labeling, which I automatically threw away thinking they were junk mail. Then one week my internet decreased in speed with each passing day until, five days later, it stopped entirely. So now I'm offline, again, but it's not so annoying this time as I have much paper-grading to do and I think I was watching too much TV anyway. But I'll pay my bill tomorrow, and should be surfing around soon after that. For now though, this post will be short. Just 10 or 11 paragraphs.
Thanksgiving was only a fraction as hellish as it normally is. Here in Japan, American Thanksgiving Day coincided with Japanese Labor Day (this coincidence doesn't always occur, I gather), so I didn't have to work. For the feast, I ate a superb avocado+bacon cheeseburger, which was much preferable to turkey, an inferior fowl when compared with the noble chicken.
A lot of Japanese people call their Labor Day "Thanksgiving", only they give their thanks to laborers who work hard to bring them the first-world lifestyle Japan's consumer culture has grown accustomed to. Call me a commie, but I like directing my thankfulness this direction far better than directing it toward an abstract concept of 'family', which doesn't apply to me very well.
I asked a student what the Japanese name for the holiday was, and, after thinking for about five or six seconds told me, "I don't remember."
AH, JAPAN! So many holidays, one can't even remember all their names!
Anyway, I must skedaddle. In my next post, I will write about how I'm rediscovering my inner-asshole. And no, this will have nothing to do with my colon or anal beads.
His jersey number is one shy of the legend's, but, with regard to pure photographic appearance, he emulates John Elway's blankly regal "brain-dead hick" aspect.
Here ... see what I mean?
Does anyone else have goosebumps?
2 comments:
Damn nice freakin debut cutler... way to be!!! Here's an idea mikey, let plummer play out the year and see if you can get anything for him in to off season, rather than just cutting him, or letting him ride the pine. I hate to say it fellow bronco fans, but my grip on the mike shannahan bandwagon is starting to slip..
Lest we forget, Elway had some really, REALLY bad games. Ol' bowlegs was downright dumb in about 40% of his games, but thankfully, the 60% of the time he was brilliant is what we remember most. I still say Cutler gives us the best chance in 2007 and beyond. Without Kubiak as offensive coordinator and QB guru, the learning curve will be slower, but he'll get there. As for Plummer, I've supported him and am grateful for his leadership to many, many victories, but it's time for him to go. He's lost the fans, he's lost the team, and it seems he's lost his way.
I do agree on the Shanahan thing. After all this time, I do believe he's slipping ever so slightly.
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