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The Moderator's Mumble 

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(05/09/02) Tak is Awesome!!!!!!!, I am the Walrus

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(04/17/02) I am Stuart.

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(04/16/02) 
I accidentally erased all the files for this Web site. Cool. But don't worry, be happy. All the files also reside on the FTP site. What is FTP site? I am not sure either. As long as it is working it might be better not to wonder why. I was living entire of my life like that.  

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(04/15/02) 
I went to Dr. Weston's office today. I wanted to fix her scanner. But she was so busy that I couldn't reach her computer. But since I got almost nothing to do anymore, I enjoyed being there. It is such a fun place because many people keep on coming and going. I also talked to Dianne. She worried about the expense in New York. I realized the problem too. Is it possible for me to get enough salary to live there, or I have to live in the Central Park? It is kind of cool too.  

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(04/14/02) 
I ate today. It was very good. I like guacamole. Tomatoes, green onions, and sour cream made a perfect harmony. It was reasonable too. Try for your next lunch. 

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(04/12/02) 
Today I talked to Mr. Everett, who hired me in New York office over the phone. He told me that he found studios cost around $600 to $650 a month. He also told me to get used to upgrading Windows 98 to Windows 2000 Professional. Colleagues around me told that the New York office was beautiful. It is in 22nd floor of a building close to the Central Park, Bryant Park, and right across the ABC studio. I told about this to my sister, and she was talking only about Broadway musicals and places to go. My sister is a person who likes to dream. Her personality is completely opposite of mine.  

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(04/11/02) 
It was a peaceful day. I didn't have to go out anywhere. To be honest, if I can, I don't want to do anything. Only if my family is a millionaire, I can stay at home reading books in my house . But for some reason, my parents are not millionaires, so I have to keep on working to earn money. I even came to the other side of the world. I am completely doing opposite to what I really want to do. Do you know someone who will do service hallmark for me? I will give you some awards. "Takudo Distinguished Service Hallmark Award" How about that? 

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(04/10/02) 
After the chapter meeting, Dr. Weston asked me to make the scanner work. I forgot. Dr. Weston, if you see this, please let me know when is your best convenience. [email protected] I don't know why, but the cold that I caught the other day won't cure so well. I am fine, but I am forgetting things and I still have sore throat. Is my brain infected? 1 + 1 = 3. I am still fine.  

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(04/09/02) 
I went to Clock restaurant today. I had a Swiss Burger. It was really good. It was a burger with gravy and mushrooms. It went with a slice of tomato too. The picture is irrelevant. I thought it might be more fun if I had had a photo. 

 

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(04/08/02) 
I want to go to bed right now. Good night. 

 

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(04/07/02) 
We got a bunch of awards in Nashville. They include the most distinguished advisor awards and the fellowship hallmark award. It was such a cool moment. New York was not a dream either. It was real. So many good things are happening these days. I wish there will be no downfalls.  

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(04/01/02) 
Peggy told me that our New York office was going to hire me as a full time employee. It was April 1 today. The New York office is beautiful and close to The Central Park. For the first, I thought that was a joke, but it wasn't. So now I have to think how to exchange the air ticket that I have already bought. Mr. Everett (a technician in New York) told me to learn how to upgrade Windows 98 to Windows 2000 without any problems. It sounded like that they were not kidding. They told me about employee benefits and tax deductions too. I feel like I am really hired. Can you believe it? I can't. But I don't think IS department manager tells this as a funny April fool joke. I hope not. She'd better not. I will wait tomorrow because it is not April 1 tomorrow.  

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(03/31/02) 
This is another good song by Flying Pickets. 

Looking from a window above
It's like a story of love
Can you hear me.
Came back only yesterday
Moving further away
Want you near me.

All I needed was the love you gave
All I needed for another day
All I ever knew
Only you

Sometimes when I think of your name
And it's only a game
And I need you
Listening to the words that you say
Getting harder to stay
When I see you

This is gonna take a long time
And I wonder what's mine
Can't take no more
Wonder if you'll understand
It's just the touch of your hand
Behind a closed door

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(03/30/02) 
Have you ever listened to ? I think this is a very good album. It is very peaceful and valuable. I like all the songs, especially "Nights in White Satin."  

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(03/29/02) 
I wrote something very neat for about 300 words today. Right after that, the most advanced Web site editing software cordially told me that it had to close the window because of some errors. The very neat 300 words are gone somewhere in Mexico.  

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(03/28/02) 
I got a haircut today at last. It is not easy for me to tell dressers what I want. It was already hard enough when I was in Japan too. I inherited my mother's trait, and my hair is hard to handle. It is even worse because I have to use English to explain what I want. But I cannot complain because my hair is still growing for me. Do you want to see the outcome? Find out somewhere in Greenville Tech. 

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(03/27/02) 
I feel better today. I like Hardee's. I like their breakfast too. Have you ever tried Biscuit 'N' Gravy™? One day, I was thinking what to have for the , and a gentleman right before me got Biscuit 'N' Gravy™. I asked the cashier to serve the same thing for me. Sorry, I got to go. I got hungry. 

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(03/26/02) 
I cannot come up with something to write today. I still don't feel so good. See you tomorrow. 

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(03/25/02) 
I caught cold.  

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(03/24/02) 
Hey yo what's going on? I'm Jeff from Chesnee. My mama fixes the best corn bread. I went to Best Buy today for a meeting. My supervisor Chris told us about a new strategy to increase revenue at our tech bench. But as usual, it was almost nothing but jokes. We laughed a lot and had fun. He talked something important, but all I could remember was hilarious jokes. I like southerners. They are the best. 

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(03/23/02) 
Organizing my room is not so easy. It doesn't necessarily mean that my room is messed up. It means that stale documents have been piled up over the years. Again, it doesn't mean that my room is messed up. Sometimes it is hard to tell whether a document is OK to dump or not. They are MVPs from Best Buy, President's Lists, CompTIA A+ certificate, a recognition from the governor, an illegally acquired passport and a visa, a lot of rejection letters from companies that I applied (@#$%), love letters from my ex-friend girls, blackmails, concealed FBI top secrets, detention notices, the bills, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s Mother Night. Good night. I don't know how to clean the mess.  

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(03/22/02) 
I went to Japan for a while. Did you think that I got lazy? Tokyo was a busy town as usual. It was good to get back for change. I'm kidding. I got no money to go back to such a strange far eastern country. My sweet cable company did something special for me and gave me days off. Anyhow, I'm back. Please check out the meeting notes too. Don't spend too much time for this mumble. 

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(03/18/02) 
That was the second year of my career as a teacher. I had a pupil named Mi-ku. She was so brilliant, and she marked the highest scores almost every test I had. When I was a middle school student, I was not a good student at all. For some reason, she was always around me. One day she told me that she wanted to marry me when she would have become sixteen. I just laughed, and I told her I would. The time elapsed, she graduated, and I moved to another school. I didn't keep the promise. I still remember her pure black eyes and graceful voice. Some memories sometimes purge my stagnant feeling, and then they also tear my heart to pieces. I feel like that it was a thousand years ago. 

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(03/17/02) 
When I was a teacher, I had a pupil who was very hard to handle. He followed what I said, but he didn't follow what other teachers said. But he was not easy to handle for me either. One afternoon right before a weekend, I wanted to assign him a task to do during the weekend. But he was trying to get away from me because he wanted to be free as soon as he could. We were half playing, and I chased him around. Finally I told him that it was time for cease-fire for the weekend. He said "Are we fighting against each other?" From his standpoint, he didn't mean to make me mad. Maybe he didn't mean to make other teachers mad either. He just behaved as he was. I said "No, we are not fighting at all. I used wrong words. We are friends." He smiled like a sunflower and ran away like the wind. He gave me a tie when I moved to another school. The tie is still sitting somewhere in my room in Japan. 

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(03/16/02) 
After work at Best Buy, Keith (one of my colleagues) and I went to Circuit City. We were in Best Buy uniforms. Every employee in Circuit City watched us. We were cool. He typed some inappropriate words as a  screen saver in a display computer. We talked to Keith's high school classmate in the car stereo department. Keith's friend was a car stereo department supervisor. When I got out of the store, the inappropriate words were still flying at the center of Circuit City. We made it. 

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(03/15/02) 
I helped Seth's speech class today. I read Japanese haiku. It was a good class and speech. After that, we had some beer and subs. It was so peaceful. Seth was doing something funny with CompuServe. I tried to fix the computer, but there was no luck. I really think that his computer needs to be restored. Anyway, I had a nice day today.  

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(03/14/02) 
I worked at Best Buy today. I saw many angry customers. They were always be in a hurry too. I'm taking my time. I don't care much about what others do as long as I am OK. This sounds a little selfish, but it is not. Because I simply just don't have time to deal with it. I'm in a hurry.: "I don't need an extreme fortune. All I need is a cozy happiness. My spring time should be like this." It is hard to explain the great poetry. But I think Seth understood this.  

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(03/13/02) 
I saw quite a few participants at the meeting today. I remembered the last year. Sometimes I went to UT351, and only people showed up was either Debra or Dianne. It was very common like this last year. I had hardly seen any people. Sometimes, I was all by myself. I felt like I was stupid, but because of my generic design, I went there every week. It is fun to see people at a meeting. Without participants, I can't have a meeting. I bought an air ticket today too. It was around $980.00. The lady at the counter was living in Spartanburg. We talked about the Hillcrest Mall. I like to talk about our daily life like this because I can feel that I am a part of society. 

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(03/12/02) 
It was a little bit nightmare today. I went to Anderson. One of my supervisors, Jeff, assigned me to make one of directors' scanner work, share her printer with another director, and install FrontPage on her 1.8 GHz desktop. The scanner locked up, the printer couldn't be shared, and FrontPage couldn't access a Web folder. What a wonderful world. The scanner software itself got a problem, the printer driver didn't have INF file (a kind of initialization files), and the Web folder had a wrong username. I'm glad that I only have nice Southerner colleagues. But I was sure that this was not my fault because all the problems were not generated by me. I read  Apologia Socratis about a hundred years ago. In my case, the more I try to explain, the more I feel like I am telling a lie. I failed to solve the problems today. Hahahahaha.  

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(03/11/02) 
Guess what. The printer that I talked the other day broke. I went to my wonderful Best Buy and exchanged. The printer couldn't await my departure. I went to GSP today too. The lady at the travel agency told me that the air fare would be $982.00 if I would have used Delta. To get back to the other side of the planet is not so cheap. Say, the use of the perfect tense is very difficult to me. I am sure the sentence from the third line needs a lot of revision. Please correct it for me and e-mail me at [email protected]. I will give you something special in return. 

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(03/10/02) 
The New King Seth became a regional officer. Congratulations Seth. You are such an excellent person. I am proud of you. Well, I just got home now, and I am a little tired. Good night. I will write in detail some other time. Anyway, it was the best convention that I ever had. We are the best team. 

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(03/09/02) 
We received many awards including most distinguished chapter president award, most distinguished officer award, most distinguished advisor award, most distinguished chapter award, and so on. Overall, we received around fourteen awards. If we play the game, we got to win. And we did it. I am a sore loser. 

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(03/08/02) 
We drove all the way down to Raleigh North Carolina. It was a  beautiful city. We had dinner at a Jazz club. The food was good. I had just a little beer. I like New Castle. 

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(03/07/02) 
It was a peaceful day for me today. I swept my room, washed clothes, and threw half-semester class textbooks away. I also prepared for the regional convention. My FrontPage spell-checker told me that I typed "sweeped." I am sorry. But I think that sweeped makes sense enough, doesn't it?............................. I am a sore loser. 
We will go to the convention, so next update will be on Monday. 
Have a nice weekend. 

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(03/06/02) 
Hey what's going on. I am Richard from Union. 
It was a fun day. I attended on the Phi Theta Kappa meeting, I took a final in Brashier, I went to Simpsonville to help Michelle to organize the yearbook, and then I went to Taylors to help Dr. Weston to install 101 CD changer. The meeting was OK. I could make members laugh a little more, but I behaved. I have never thought that Dr. Weston's office would be filled with people when there was a Phi Theta Kappa meeting. It was usually two people. The two people you know well. I mean the queen and a strange Oriental. The final was for a half-semester class. I got only one half-semester class left after this. I will enjoy the southern life. For the first, I will go to Waffle House®. After that, I ate a lot of pieces of brownie, and then I made two pages of the yearbook. What a contrast! Sorry Michelle. Basically, I went there to eat some pieces of brownie. The brownie was very good though. Then I went to Dr. Weston's house to install that wonderful changer. It is really nice. You have to try that sometime. On the way home, I saw a lot of cars caught by the police on the side of 29. Maybe they were thinking that their cars were smooth even if they drove around 98. I have never thought about that kind of dangerous thing. Good night.  

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(3/5/02) 
I went to Anderson today for work. I know that it is too far away from Duncan. It is about 40 miles. I feel like I am stupid, but it was not so easy for me to find the position that I wanted to get. My crappy Lincoln® is so far still running. I will tell you how crappy it is. The passenger side window doesn't open. You can try it, but it won't go back. Cool. The left back seat door can be opened from the outside but not from the inside. How tricky it is! Only good things are that I got a new stereo that sounds great, and it runs great. It is so stable even if I drive around 98. I love American cars. Also, the car seems like a brand new car. If you are a police officer, please forget what you see in the last several lines. Haha.  

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(3/4/02) 
I like Arthur Garfunkel. I like his voice and lyrics. He doesn't write songs much, but the themes he likes to sing are very attractive to me. In his albums, I can find many vernacular objects. They are the Tootsie Roll®, Mrs. Wagner Pies®, the New Jersey turnpike, and Disney® Girls for example. I was listening to the song named "America®" today. That's a good song. By the way, Seth and I installed an HP® multi-functional printer at Dr. Weston's office. It was fun to me. I hope the unit will work fine at least until I leave here. lol  

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(3/3/02) 
I worked at Best Buy today. It is one of the best places to understand American culture. John (one of the managers) teaches me many words (mostly inappropriate words). But I can hear many expressions that I will never be able to hear if I were in Japan. Kurt (one of the technicians) told me that there is a word "drizank" (I am not sure about the spelling.) that means to drink. I cannot come up with other expressions that I have heard right now, but all of the expressions are very interesting to me. 

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(3/2/02) 
Greetings, 

I went to a Mexican restaurant today. I had some tacos. That was so good. I saw many Mexicans there. Since I came here, I found one interesting fact. If you go to a Chinese restaurant, you can find some Chinese people. If you go to a Mexican restaurant, you can find some Mexicans. But if you go to a Japanese restaurant, most likely, you will never be able to find genuine Japanese people. Why? If you have some ideas, please let me know. 

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(3/1/02) 
How are you today? 

I went to see a movie. The movie was about an American family. To me, every scene meant very profound denotations. Because I am a foreigner, I might sense the distinctive meanings more clearly. The son fell in love with a woman, whose husband was abusive to her. The son was eventually killed by the husband. It is very dangerous to say in a simple way, but my point of view is that some Americans are too much focused on very well  defined and ideal "Family," and sometimes the view hurts the family itself. At this point, you see that I am a little tired today. Don't care about what I have written tonight. I'm drunk anyway. Good night. 

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(2/28/02) 
What's going on man, 

It was an induction meeting today. It was one of the best ceremonies in my Phi Theta Kappan life. Sandwiches were good too. Many people helped the preparation. Some people were eating something a little too early, but maybe they were too hungry. I think maybe I did a little too. I declare. That was good cookies. Anyway, the guest speaker was pretty nice, and the speech was quite to the point. Everything went fine, and my last induction meeting was finished. To be honest, I have never thought that I would prepare induction ceremonies for four times. I don't speak or understand English at all. I always need an interpreter when I talk to my friends. I'm kidding. Anyhow, thank you for all of your help. (go-ku-rou-sa-ma-de-shi-ta)  

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