Coffee-Flavored Coffee

Little Things

Roy Huggins — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:14:02 +0000

I wrote this on my phone and it made me happy. Then I drank some coffee. That made me happy, too.

Sorry this is gonna show up on Facebook and LJ, too. Just never you mind it.

Roy Huggins — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:08:59 +0000

I changed the name of my blog to Coffee-Flavored Coffee for no compelling reason.

I Have a Private Practice!

Roy Huggins — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:17:43 +0000

It’s true. I have a private practice now! It’s at NE Glisan and NE 60th. I get the office for 5 hours per week. I even have a website: Portland Counseling Therapy. Yes, it has a silly, keyword-rich name.

Now I just need clients…

Catharting. Carharting.

Roy Huggins — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:26:40 +0000

I’ve realized lately that I’m much better than I used to be at understanding how others experience the world and respond to it in different ways than I do. Sometimes it’s great but sometimes it kinda sucks.

Yesterday from the staff room

Roy Huggins — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:28:10 +0000

This is yesterday’s shot from the staff room. But really this post is just to see how my blog-to-facebook gateway deals with pictures.

Tanksgivin

Roy Huggins — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:28:59 +0000

Electra and I had Thanksgiving last Saturday at the American Consul General’s house in Sapporo. It was fantastic. And it turns out she’s really rad. It’s nice to know that people like her are representing us in those kinds of diplomatic positions.

Also, she has real ovens. In her house! Such luxury!!

So much!

Roy Huggins — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:14:49 +0000

Sometimes I’m astonished by how much cheese there must be in the world.

What’s Your Yearly Dinosaur?

Roy Huggins — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:31:50 +0000

I was hanging out after lunch with some 5th graders today. One of them is really into dinosaurs. He kept trying to drag my attention away to talk about them.

To try to keep the others involved, I asked another boy, in Japanese, if he liked dinosaurs. Now, the Japanese word for “dinosaur” is “kyoryu”. But I messed up and said “kyuryo”. That means “salary”. The kid rolled with it nicely. First he kindly corrected me, then he said (in Japanese), “My dinosaur is $1,000 per month.”

Awesome.

Honcho = 班長

Roy Huggins — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:41:31 +0000

You probably know that we borrowed the word “Typhoon” from Japanese. But I’ve been learning that we’ve actually borrowed quite a random assortment of words from Japanese.

For example, “honcho” from “head honcho” comes from the Japanese word 班長 (hanchou) which means “group leader/boss”. Apparently English speaking POWs in WWII were put into (quite brutal) workgroups by their Japanese captors and one Japanese word they never forgot was 班長.

I imagine many words we imported from Japanese were learned that way.

At the Park

Roy Huggins — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:28:18 +0000

Electra and I were going to go to burgers tonight after I finished counseling, but I decided I really wasn’t hungry and wanted to chill at the park in the cold, but wonderful-feeling, air.

I walked into the park with my headphones on. The park smells of healthy pond and is mostly lit by the occasional lamp and the neon on distant hotels. So it feels private and lovely but not dangerously dark. I took off my headphones to hang out next to the pond and listen to ducks and — someone was playing a flute! He’s in the dark near the pond and I can barely make out his shape. I think it’s some kind of bamboo or wood instrument, but I’m pretty sure it’s not a shakuhachi. His playing is beautiful! It echoes around the pond like a New Age meditation CD. And it’s pretty much exactly what I needed tonight.