Midaregami

It’s something like a week after the fact, but it bears mentioning that I very much enjoyed my birthday. The festivities were spread out over the weekend, but here are the highlights. I:

1. Saw Serenity.
2. Made and ate spaghetti from scratch.
3. Received some excellent presents.

Regarding Serenity. The same graduate student colleague who turned me on to “Settlers of Catan” lent me the Firefly box set, and despite a few complaints I have with some quirks of the show, it was ridiculously, gloriously good. And, thanks to my late appreciation of it, I only had to wait a few weeks for the release of the movie, “Serenity,” that promised to conclude the series (whose run was tragically cut short). The movie was good, damn good. I am a leaf on the wind.

About the spaghetti. A huge shipment of boxes from home arrived, and among the books and DVDs that define my identity as a dork was my beloved spaghetti maker. We made a batch that very night, homemade noodles and sauce, which, with the nice Chianti Jake bought, combined to make a meal that was, in his words, “retardedly good.” Retardedly. I need to do it again soon.

And finally, a word on presents. I got excellent, unexpected presents that I will enjoy for months or years to come. And flowers. That’s pretty much all that needs saying—that and the fact that I have shockingly cool friends.

More posts are coming—big, meaty discourses on classical Japanese and the nature of suffering, among others—but in the meantime Fluffy asks that I translate the sentences from the previously-posted homework assignment into English, so here they are. Warning: They are not funny. Seriously. They were just random sentences I came up with to fit a particular tree-structure.

1. Takumi performed at the Budokan.
2. Sachiko cheered Takumi on at the Budokan.
3. Takumi was made to quit heroin by Sachiko.
4. Takumi said that Sachiko was not going out with Shota.
5. Shota kissed Sachiko, who was listening to music.

See? Not funny.

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