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I think one way to get back on track with the bookblogging thing is to admit that I'm reading something beforehand, instead of guiltily putting a trashy book back onto the shelves and trying to pretend I was reading something intellectual, and end up blogging nothing. So, for the record, I'm reading The Private World of Georgette Heyer, bookblog to come!

Things I can't:

1) Read more than five pages of a novel if there's no dialogue. Someone needs to talk!
2) Bow, Japanese style. I... I strongly suspect this is my racefail (one of many instances), as I teach Japanese people English and at the end of the lesson I, um... nod and chirp, "See you next week!" My other boss, on the other hand, executes a perfect 45-degree coming and going and says things like "Please work hard!"
3) Sit in a chair for longer than 15 minutes without adopting a cross-legged posture. This is why I hate chairs with armrests.
4) Go anywhere without a sweater, even though I live in the tropics.
5) Be bored with my job. I quit my last two jobs because of this. The problem is that my threshold for boredom gets lower with every passing year.

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Claude Levi-Strauss dead at 100. I'm ashamed to say that I thought he died a long time ago.

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Fic:

Overlap, Tokyo Babylon/X/Yami no Matsuei, by zanzou_chan

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Excerpt from The Twelve Kingdoms: The Perfect World by Fuyumi Ono, translated by pengisama