fever...

my darling baby girl is in the hospital. she's been here since friday morning. she's had a fever for about a week and threw up a few times. now the fever is gone but she has a rash. it was a little shocking for me but i think she'll be ok now.

Swish and Flick

This is my second typeface. It's a thin small-caps script. Inspired by Snape and the 'L' that my friend Twist used to write 'Love'. Not recommended for use with italics on or pair kerning off. Recommended for large print. Not recommended for large pieces of text because it ends up looking like back hair.

As with anything I create, it's under creative commons share alike. In other words, you can do whatever you want with it but, if you edit it, you still have to let others do whatever they want with your new edited version.
Download 'Swish And Flick' here.

Leafy Sea Dragon

Did you know this animal existed? I'll bet you didn't. I didn't either until just a few weeks ago when Kenji and I and some friends of ours visited the Suma aquarium. It looks like something out of spore.

Eigo Doujou

I've got an idea for a movie; an idea for a movie and not a reality because it could never exist in the real world. It is merely an English teacher's fantasy world called Eigo Doujou. You may be familiar with the word doujou as a place where Karate and other martial arts are practiced. These are skills that are mastered only through rigorous training on the part of a student who is willing to endure anything to meet the impossibly high standards of the master. I believe that mastering English as a second language requires the same dedication.

In my little fantasy world, all students would join of their own free will based on their understanding that the fun comes from developing their skill and finding their own ways of expressing themselves rather than being led to believe that English simply a set of games and activities. For many students, when the card games stop being fun, English stops being fun.

In this world my classroom decisions won't be second guessed by third party interests or information. Fluency in English is the ONLY goal to which the class must aspire AS A CLASS.

English practice will not be given the lowest possible priority in students' weekly schedules while putting the highest possible expectations on the teacher. If you want to master the piano, find a piano master. If you want to speak crappy English, find a crappy English school. The dojo is for English mastery.

Much more to come on this...

Work: If it's too complicated, simplify it. If it takes too long, don't do anything else (including sleep or eat) until it's done. If it's too difficult, know that before you start and start anyway.