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Month: December, 2008

Books Make Odd Bedfellows

I generally read several books at once. Usually this is a work of fiction (or two) and then a non-fiction work such as a history text or a Buddhist work. Recently, with the time on my hands from the holidays and not feeling well, I’ve been attempting to finally finish The Baroque Cycle of Neal [...]

Learning Japanese

As part of my ongoing Academic work, I need to know Japanese. This is especially true if I am accepted into the doctoral program at the Graduate Theological Union. Since there is a while until this program starts, I’ve been working on self-study of Japanese. It is definitely slow going to self-study a language and [...]