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East side

1:14pm JST Friday 15 August 2003

I hear that the eastern seaboard of the US is out of power. Wonder what's up with that?

Work

12:58pm JST Friday 15 August 2003

Yesterday Yukiji helped me get to a travel agency, but I still don't really feel like I can get all my connections connected for my trip to Osaka et. al. with janette.

I got pissed off today when Rich came in and was all, "HI. A little piece of advice, don't say the book is wrong; I wasted five minutes of my lesson correcting a student on an error you made yesterday."

I silently crushed my aluminum drink bottle as he spoke to me. "hmf."

Several minutes later I was like, "okay," and gave my opinion:

That's ridiculous, but it's what the book says should be spoken in that situation. Fuck that. My name is still Rob, so the last line oughta be "He said his name is Rob."

Carla agrees with me that's it's dumb (the book), but what's SUPER dumb is telling the students that this fucked up book is the all high and mighty fucking bible of English. It's a shit book.

"We have enough trouble getting the students to use the book as it is, so don't tell them it's wrong."

At first I was like, I will never concede this point, but then I talked to Phil who suggested that the book is simplifying the language for the students. So I don't have to say that it's wrong, but it's being simplified. And he showed me a page in his (thicker) book that showed the nuances. You rock, Phil.

I copied the page and I'll use it as my guide to augment the FUCKED UP (oops) book if I get to that lesson again.