One of this year's valuable lessons.

I will always remember 2009 as the year I flew off the rails.

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Kore wa shokudoo desu.

“Watashitachi wa kore kara shokudoo e ikimasu.”

We are going to the cafeteria now.

The fact that I had to mentally translate the above sentence piece by piece while reading it tells me how much my Japanese has slipped since college.

Ever since that painful conversation I tried to have with the elderly taxi driver in Kamakura, I’d always promised myself that I’d get back to studying Japanese. Traveling, watching anime, meeting new people, even talking with a client, I’d been struck by just how often a good grasp of Japanese would come in handy. (more…)

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People who know me from different periods in my life have wildly divergent opinions of me. People who’ve known me since childhood think I’m a genius. People from UP think I’m an evil slacker nerd. People from law school think I’m a weird loner at school who also happens to be fun at parties. So it’s not easy to find common ground about my personality traits except that I’m a weirdo.

If I had to point a particular trait out, though, it’s that I like to learn.

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