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Down with Snow, down with Sho
Things I am getting really tired of:
Being sick
Being cold and hiding under my kotatsu
Snowstorms in Tokyo
That Erik Bedard trade
Sho Nakata
But. With the imminent return of baseball season, apparently Norihiro Komada is back as a commentator on Mega-spo! And just as entertaining as always.
Though, something's very wrong when I see footage of some guy in high socks pitching and I think "Dang, he's hot", and then I realize... crap, that's Koji Uehara, who is definitely NOT HOT. Hiroshima's Soyogi, on the other hand, is hot. Though his voice is surprisingly about an octave lower than I expected him to sound. And then later on I'm watching as they show the Ibaraki Golden Golds playing a game today... apparently freaking KIN-CHAN pulled a daida ore! He's only, you know, 66 years old. Or something like that. (He shares my birthday.) Anyway.
I have a bunch of things to make a photopost out of, but apparently Dreamhost is down. So either a little later tonight, or sometime tomorrow.
As for the rest of the day, I still have a cold. Bleh. I spent one of my classes today teaching a student some slang, oddly enough. It's very hard to explain the differences of "up with" "down with" "up to" "up for" and so on. For example:
"What are you up to this weekend?"
"Eh, not much."
"Are you up for seeing a movie?"
"Yeah, I'd be down with that."
"Hmm... do you feel up to seeing a movie?"
"Eh, nah, I'm pretty sick, I came down with a cold this week."
"Down with colds! Up with movies!"
But, aside from being hoarse and all, it wasn't too bad a day. I ended up completing my Englishification of my cheapo Japan map, making big English signs for it ("Where are you from? I'm from Ehime." "Ehime? Where's that? It's on Shikoku. It's near Kochi." "Tokyo is bigger than Nagoya. Sendai is not as cold as Sapporo." "Osaka is about 400 kilometers west of Tokyo.") which are just phrases from various Sprint lessons. It looks pretty cool. Now I just have to finish making my Seattle poster.
I ended up staying at GEOS really late though... Eri and I were going to go to dinner but she wasn't done working until like 9pm. We got pasta at the place under Akabane station again. I had the melanzane again and it was all yummy, but she ordered pepperoncini pasta and I'm not sure she realized it was going to be REALLY SPICY. Whoops.
It's not like I had any plans besides coming home and trying to stay warm, of course.. which is kind of what I'm planning for tomorrow. Just relaxing. I'll probably leave my apartment to get lunch or dinner and other than that I think I should just stay here and try to get well. Or something like that. I mean, especially since it's snowing... riding my bike home in the snow was quite an adventure. This was my first time really riding ON snow; the other times have been through snow but without it stuck to the ground at the time. Funny, but the part of my body that hurt the most when I got home was my arms. Stabilizing a bike in snow is kind of a pain. Fortunately I didn't fall off the bike or get hit by a car or anything, so I win. I guess.
Being sick
Being cold and hiding under my kotatsu
Snowstorms in Tokyo
That Erik Bedard trade
Sho Nakata
But. With the imminent return of baseball season, apparently Norihiro Komada is back as a commentator on Mega-spo! And just as entertaining as always.
Though, something's very wrong when I see footage of some guy in high socks pitching and I think "Dang, he's hot", and then I realize... crap, that's Koji Uehara, who is definitely NOT HOT. Hiroshima's Soyogi, on the other hand, is hot. Though his voice is surprisingly about an octave lower than I expected him to sound. And then later on I'm watching as they show the Ibaraki Golden Golds playing a game today... apparently freaking KIN-CHAN pulled a daida ore! He's only, you know, 66 years old. Or something like that. (He shares my birthday.) Anyway.
I have a bunch of things to make a photopost out of, but apparently Dreamhost is down. So either a little later tonight, or sometime tomorrow.
As for the rest of the day, I still have a cold. Bleh. I spent one of my classes today teaching a student some slang, oddly enough. It's very hard to explain the differences of "up with" "down with" "up to" "up for" and so on. For example:
"What are you up to this weekend?"
"Eh, not much."
"Are you up for seeing a movie?"
"Yeah, I'd be down with that."
"Hmm... do you feel up to seeing a movie?"
"Eh, nah, I'm pretty sick, I came down with a cold this week."
"Down with colds! Up with movies!"
But, aside from being hoarse and all, it wasn't too bad a day. I ended up completing my Englishification of my cheapo Japan map, making big English signs for it ("Where are you from? I'm from Ehime." "Ehime? Where's that? It's on Shikoku. It's near Kochi." "Tokyo is bigger than Nagoya. Sendai is not as cold as Sapporo." "Osaka is about 400 kilometers west of Tokyo.") which are just phrases from various Sprint lessons. It looks pretty cool. Now I just have to finish making my Seattle poster.
I ended up staying at GEOS really late though... Eri and I were going to go to dinner but she wasn't done working until like 9pm. We got pasta at the place under Akabane station again. I had the melanzane again and it was all yummy, but she ordered pepperoncini pasta and I'm not sure she realized it was going to be REALLY SPICY. Whoops.
It's not like I had any plans besides coming home and trying to stay warm, of course.. which is kind of what I'm planning for tomorrow. Just relaxing. I'll probably leave my apartment to get lunch or dinner and other than that I think I should just stay here and try to get well. Or something like that. I mean, especially since it's snowing... riding my bike home in the snow was quite an adventure. This was my first time really riding ON snow; the other times have been through snow but without it stuck to the ground at the time. Funny, but the part of my body that hurt the most when I got home was my arms. Stabilizing a bike in snow is kind of a pain. Fortunately I didn't fall off the bike or get hit by a car or anything, so I win. I guess.
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They DEFINITELY gave up too much for him. Not just to mention that I truly LIKE George Sherrill as a person, it bugs me that he'll probly go to Baltimore and be their closer. Adam Jones was, well, the future of the Seattle outfield, we've been saying that for so long. Mickolio is one of the tallest dudes I've ever seen in my whole life, and I was really excited about him as well. Tillman was a 2nd-round pick that the M's were brilliant to make in the first place. Sigh.
Yeah, Bedard is pretty great and all but I just simply don't like the trade, even though I've even had him on my fantasy team for the last few years. Part of it is that I feel like I've lost my team. I don't even know who the Mariners are anymore. The 2004-2005 Mariners and Tacoma Rainiers are the team I think of as "my" Mariners I think, this current bunch I'm really not so sure of. Good thing I won't be around to watch them, I guess.
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(maybe you're thinking of George Sherrill as the lefty?)
Yeah, I dunno, the Pirates are kinda lost too, but it does seem like they have some plans. Maybe Kuwata will make the team and I'll actually see some of them on TV out here sometimes (that's honestly the only way I can see MLB is if a Japanese dude is on the team).