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Twenty-fourteen

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Placeholder journal! Just because it's been what, two years since the last one? Which totally messes up my once a year schedule. Also, I got tired of looking at the last one. That part of my life is long over.


#movealong #nothingtoseehere
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Slip-slop-slap

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Summer holidays for me!
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Twenty-twelve

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So, life's been fairly interesting since graduating last year. I currently have a job as a laboratory technician/supervisor for first-year chemistry undergraduates at my university. I'm enjoying it immensely and learning a lot. Plus this way, I can get my head around what I want to do next.


I just figured I'd tell you all since I had to put something in for my once-a-year journal entry.


Until next year! :dummy:
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I have a problem with remembering people's birthdays. In fact, the only birthday I can recall is my own. Despite continuously being reminded of family members' birthdays, I can only ever get it narrowed down to the month--or at best, the period of year. This is fuzzy practice at best, and not likely to win much positive favour. Jocularly (or at least I imagine so), my family would chalk it down to 'selfishness': the idea that my being 'selfish' was responsible for me only ever remembering my own birthday. To be fair to them, I have tended to drift into solipsism on occasion, which seems to hold fast in the minds of people more than my altruism.

I find it similar with names. Throughout my undergraduate years I could never really remember most of my tutors' names, and would often confuse them. For instance, I would send one tutor an e-mail meant for another. This tended to not be very useful, as the tutors themselves sometimes didn't realise you weren't in their classes to begin with, and would give you information that was, more often than not, impertinent.

Now and then the same thing happens with my home address. The habit of forgetting my own address is probably not a very good sign. I have had to use Google Maps to determine my street name from known landmarks. That being said, constantly moving house probably has a lot to do with this particular case.

However, the most irksome memory failure for me is forgetting words. Usually the same set of words. Usually very simple and common sets of words. This obviously becomes an issue when it stalls me mid-sentence in a conversation, as I battle to recall that *word*; eventually resorting in me asking my interlocutor what the word for a particular thing is. Very embarrassing.

Luckily, I have developed a few strategies for coping with memory lapses! A common one of mine is to repeat object names, concept names, proper names and so on, to myself verbally, and then place them in narratives. Repetition helps to ground names, while narrativising them contextualises them by giving their abstractedness a concrete base.


So, if you're reading this, and sometimes have problems remembering things, I'd like to hear from you! What are your strategies for coping with memory lapses?
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I figured I'd publish a list of books that I plan on reading for the summer break. I am concentrating mostly in three areas: Russian, general 19th century, and Japanese literature. Any additions or thoughts are welcome, I'm always open to suggestions, all though within the limits of what I've described above... for now anyway.

Honda Katsuichi - Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale
Chisato O. Dubreuil - Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People
Shigeru Kayano - Our Land was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir
Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection
Leo Tolstoy - The Kreutzer Sonata [Re-read]
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace [Third time after two abortive attempts]
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The First Circle
Vladimir Nabokov  - Lolita
Alexander Pushkin -  Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Dead Souls
Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase
Yasunari Kawabata - Snow Country
Yukio Mishima - Confessions of a Mask

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All done!
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