
Sense at the Mandarin is fairly reasonable for lunch. Special occasion only. What's the special occasion?

It's June! The rainy season is upon us, and I'm ignoring the above photo.


Celebrate the win with some beer.

Frozen beer! Yeah, it's as bad as it sounds.


So this is neat. My students are all way into America (or maybe I'm just forcing my culture on them). So I mailed all 50 state's official tourism boards and asked for any materials I might use in class. Rad! Like 30 of the states sent me packets of stuff.
And thanks Texas . . . for the pack of 100% Japanese language brochures! Kind of not what I was going for but it's all good. Can't you be more like Nevada; gambling literature galore!


Birds!

Who needs a telephoto lens?