tiredIt is hot and humid in Kansas, as Kansas tends to be this time of year. But it is also green, which I find refreshing after the intense beauty and strangeness of Southern California.
Sleeping in my own bed again: good. Going back to work in the morning: not so good.
I learned so much in the past month. I had a wonderful time. I wish I could take a week to process the experience and find a way to organize all the parts of it in my mind, but life doesn't quite work that way.
Shunshou made his public debut at my final-project presentation on Friday, which was a quick overview of one of the three courses I've designed during the institute (this one looks at ghosts, dolls, replicants, and doppelgangers in English and Japanese literature). People cooed over him. Too funny!
Must unpack, do laundry, and hope to find some food in my bare cupboards.
I think this class will work pretty well, though I'm actually more excited about the other two ideas: a 3-week summer class on appropriations of the samurai in film and popular culture, and a full-semester class comparing the rise of the merchant/urban classes in England and Japan. That last one won't be nearly as thrilling to the students as it will be to me, I'm sure, but I do love the idea.
That course sounds absolutely fascinating.
The harem will be a lot happier once I replace my camera and can give them some photographic attention. Right now, they're acting a little rebellious: Lyon has gone floppy (i.e., floppier than usual), Kanbei's right shoulder joint is all wonky, and Pen looks even more dour and disapproving than he normally does. I haven't had the heart to get the others out of their nice safe boxes yet. Sejong will probably hurl his hands and feet across the room to express his bitter feelings about being left behind and shut up in his box for a month.
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Helene.
Some anime has alot of that, too.^^ As do some of the RPGs. If you read the lore, you know where some of the ideas come from...^^
Welcome back...^^
And then there are bunraku puppets, of course.
Not to mention, as you say, the tales and the lore and the history. This could keep me happily occupied for a very long time--too bad I have to stop and, like, work for a living. (That said: lucky me, to be able to shoehorn this kind of thing into my work, at least here & there & sideways.)
It was a *blast* meeting you (and TrentTrentTrentTrent, plus of course Gorgeous Dylan, who's pretty close to enabling me into one of the After School Shiros)!
You should get a Dylan...er Shiro...I LOVE him the best out of ALL the volks boy molds. I'd love to see what you do with him.
Sincerely,
The Enabler