My mom told me a totally warm-and-fuzzy story about paper penguins.
Awwww! She loves me very, very, very much. =D

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I’m right smack against the upper page limit, too. Just _barely_
managed to cram it into 12 pages. I know I can trim it down further,
but knowing me, I might get carried away and try to stuff another rant
or two in there. =) I’ll re-edit it before posting it on the Web, but
it’s good to get that out of my system…

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Random Japanese sentence: どのねこも、どのねこもひとくちずつ草を食べました。すると野原中の草はすっかりなくなってしまいました。 Each cat ate a mouthful of grass and not a blade was left!

Still plugging away. Wow, I’ve been working on this for quite a while,
and I don’t feel too fatigued yet. Here’s what I tried:

• Munch on things regularly to keep a good sugar level. I brought
  plenty of apples and bananas, and I’ve been raiding the bread and
  crackers.
• Drink plenty of water. This also forces me to get a bit of
  exercise. I find I get very thirsty when I think… <laugh>
• Set my computer to force a 5- to 10-minute break every hour.
  Microbreaks (15 seconds every ten minutes) are also useful. I don’t
  find myself losing track of ideas, and I can stay on track better
  when I know regular breaks are coming up.

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Random Japanese sentence: 雨が土砂降りに振りはじめた。 It began to rain cats and dogs.