Keeping busy
Aug. 31st, 2005 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spacealien_vampToday was my first day back at work. Classes won't start until tomorrow, though (and even then, I don't have any classes tomorrow either), so that mainly meant sitting at my desk and reading for eight hours.
I did get a chance to meet the new exchange student from Michigan who arrived last night. She was quite homesick. I hope she feels better once she has a chance to get used to things here.
She went over her self-introduction speech (which she'll present at the opening ceremony tomorrow) with her homeroom teacher. Afterward, the teacher came to consult with me, because the student had mentioned having a step-father when talking about her family. The teacher wanted to know if it was okay to translate "step-father" into Japanese for the other students. She explained that most Japanese people try to keep step-parents a secret, so she didn't know if she should "spill the beans" to the other students. (The divorce rate is quite low here, and I guess it's considered rather embarrassing to have step-parents.)
After I came home, I decided that the photo on my home page was rather outdated, so I worked a couple hours on designing a new one. I intend to revise the look of the page overall...eventually. I made a few tweaks to it tonight, but I spent so much time on the picture that I couldn't finish everything I had planned.
I did get a chance to meet the new exchange student from Michigan who arrived last night. She was quite homesick. I hope she feels better once she has a chance to get used to things here.
She went over her self-introduction speech (which she'll present at the opening ceremony tomorrow) with her homeroom teacher. Afterward, the teacher came to consult with me, because the student had mentioned having a step-father when talking about her family. The teacher wanted to know if it was okay to translate "step-father" into Japanese for the other students. She explained that most Japanese people try to keep step-parents a secret, so she didn't know if she should "spill the beans" to the other students. (The divorce rate is quite low here, and I guess it's considered rather embarrassing to have step-parents.)
After I came home, I decided that the photo on my home page was rather outdated, so I worked a couple hours on designing a new one. I intend to revise the look of the page overall...eventually. I made a few tweaks to it tonight, but I spent so much time on the picture that I couldn't finish everything I had planned.
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Date: 2005-08-31 08:06 am (UTC)As opposed to Marmalade boy, where it's all "Let's divorce, swap and remarry!" hehehe
Looking forward to the new page/pic! And best wishes for a good semester! :-)
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Date: 2005-08-31 01:53 pm (UTC)The picture is already posted at my home page (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~weyrbrat) (the link is also in my user info). I don't know when I'll get the rest of the changes done.
I wrote the vast majority of the pages on my website about ten years ago, and the HTML is all archaic. I'm hoping to update at least some of it to CSS when I get a chance.
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Date: 2005-08-31 03:17 pm (UTC)