So the problem with not blogging is that you have lots more to report when you do, and then you're behind, and that's not even counting

Asianboi Roundup

Alric is feeling better about his love-shyness... novel! He does seem like he is on the verge of some sort of breakthrough, while at the same time he is cocky enough to consider competing with me for the hand of Last, Best Hope.

Brother is now of legal drinking age, and is PRing, though they don't have Sinusoidal trophies quite yet.

Joephet has recovered from our abusive relationship--he has upgraded to an M.D.

Kenneth is interviewing with various whitey organizations. I suspect that they are probably still better than some dates they are on, though I doubt they have been touching his tremendous rack.

Lostin is still bitter. But, with possibly just one year left in college, it can only go uphill.

Others are in second-round interview for inclusion onto this list.

Rob Chin is trying to reduce the Asian poon trade deficit (His GDP--Gross Domestic Poon).

So yesterday was a journey spanning two states, at least--having been pleasantly surprised at the reasonableness of Macy's Cellar, my brother got a visit and yet more alcohol paraphernalia--what else do you get someone who doesn't have a TV or read? But, slapdash as the visit was, it was satisfactory from the hoagie point of view as well finding yet another dictionary to add to my collection, which now runs:

Lutz's Doublespeak
Quine's Quiddities
Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars
Dictionary of Theories
Saul's The Doubter's Companion
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
Lambdin's Doublespeak Dictionary
Lutz's Doublespeak Defined
Flaubert's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
Webster's Unafraid Dictionary
Bierce's Devil's Dictionary
Bierce and Buff's Devil's Dictionaries
Dalzell's The Slang of Sin
Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot
Cuddon's A Diciontary of Literary Terms (better than Abrams'!!)
The Year 3000 (a who's who of the future!)

I fear there must be more someplace, but the intention is simple--collect dictionaries that are not run of the mill, and actually express the secret ideology underpinning most works--a lexicographer, after all, is an empirical scientist, at best. Suggestions & donations are appreciated.

The rest of this week in teaching was satisfactorier than the first part--on Friday I felt as if I had a lesson worth teaching, actually, and I realized at some point in fruitful conversation with another teacher that any lesson worth attending had better not be fully videotapable, which is in marked contrast with Duke's give-everyone-an-iPod response...

Class last night was light, though it was hard not to laugh when I was in sonkyo and I heard a rip. I am now sitting around in boxers with an enormous vertical gash down the back. This wardrobe choice is somehow very Chinese.