Today was a pleasant and sleepy day. The sky was a deep and sleepy cloudless blue. My students were sleepy but friendly. I got one test (sleepily) written and out of the way, and only have one left to go. And my Peanuts DVD (“It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!”) is arriving tomorrow morning; a rare treat for the first years after the tests are over. I couldn’t think of a better way to teach them about Halloween traditions than that fine Halloween tradition – watching Peanuts! Well, hopefully it will keep them awake anyway…

Friend and artist Yui Katoh has a blog up. It’s been up for a little while now but I completely forgot to blog it. I have been remiss and now I make amends. Go to her blog, take a look at her pictures and then encourage her (with comments) to post some more because they are MARVELOUS: Yui Katoh.

Rik Abel has started podcasting and swears he will make a regular habit of it. Do we believe him? Who can tell? Here’s what he has to say:

Although I love techno music I have never tried my hand at creating my own mixes, and realistically, I probably never will. Luckily, I have lots of talented DJ type friends who can do that kind of thing for me. So this is the first in a fairly regular series of podcasts where I will be piggybacking on the talent of these friends in order to bask in their reflected glory, and hopefully expose them to a wider audience. Because they really are very good, all of them. As I’m sure you will agree once you check out their mixes…

Read more, and more importantly, listen, here: Rik Abel.

There is a list of up-and-coming events in Kyoto that may be of interest to someone up here: Up-and-coming.

And then there is this, which if you haven’t seen it is… well, it’s got bunnies in it. What more can you possibly need to know? Bravia Bunnies.

I’m sleepy. Goodnight!