I usually listen to music while working. I can go without, but I prefer to go with. Working during the day and working at night are completely different activities to me, and require completely different music. Also, working with words as I do, the music I listen to while working must not take my at...

I have been enjoying riding the slow train to school. I have class on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I leave around 7:00 or 7:30 on those days, and this gives me a generous chunk of time to get to school, since my first class is at 10:00. During this time, I invariably have some translation job to f...

Well, good reader, I have arrived. I have made it. I am at the pinnacle. That is, if the pinnacle is that which a young boy of the 1980s might have envisioned. I have officially received my first Japanese to English translation job about Ninjas. My job for the next few hours will be to study the way...