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Phone sex construction

By alex | Published: 6/17/2008
To the caller, when I first answer, I am the inanimate Barbie. They do not know what I look like, who I am or how I feel. They can only imagine. It is my job to indulge their fantasies, to convince them that I am not a doll. I am their dream turned real. I […]
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Keaton and friend

By alex | Published: 6/10/2008
Love this photograph (larger version here):
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Odawara City Survival Guide

By alex | Published: 6/9/2008
I am trying to sift through tons of paper and electronic documents, cleaning an simplifying. Lots of nostalgia stirred up by that, especially when finding things like this guide I wrote for foreign teachers in Odawara in 1994. The writing is terrible, and the remarks are far more snide than I remember being, but it’s […]
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[Fairfield] Thursday Morning Sessions

By alex | Published: 6/5/2008
I’m up at Fairfield University for their annual conference on teaching. Time permitting, I’ll try to blog the sessions. The day began with a keynote from Alison Morrison-Shetlar, the Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Central Florida. I’ll admit to being a bit cynical about overarching advice on teaching, but I think she […]
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