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Work's being nifty. My supervisor, Kagawa-san (tokoro de, Mika no "ka"), speaks English well, and has been helping me with Japanese. The other foreign interns are friendly; we have an Indian guy, a Chinese girl, and several Germans, all of whom speak English much better than Japanese. America's really lame for being monolingual. Anyways, the sort of thing I'm doing at work is oddly enough related to R2V at Metacarta. It's all about computer interpretation of bitmap images, in this case part diagrams for devices. It's interesting stuff. Maybe I've found a specialty. I wish I could get my internet working reliably, though. (Apparently landline will sometimes work when the wireless doesn't?)

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