So lessee, what’s happened… Not a whole lot. Highlight of the weekend was meeting a local DJ. He plays fortnightly at Spring Brain Monkey, a small bar in Shizuoka whose owner is a national engaged to a guy on the JET Program. He’s (I’m talking about the DJ) engaging and has impeccable taste - likes the crossover jazz (he calls it new jazz).
Spent the majority of the weekend figuring out the xml description files for video discs. Compiled some more programs and transcoded quicktime4linux to mpeg2. Learning lots.
Classes are in full effect finally. I’m excited to start again with new students. I only have 280 this go ’round (down from 400), so I have a chance at learning their names in under a term. The introduction lessons are finished (so they’ve learned the Shim-Sham), but this year I also made a short video (thanks to cammy) and gave them the Lindy Hop. We’re going thru the rules at the moment, so things feel boring, but soon it’ll be back to the Joe show.