McCain

Woke up early today and did some studying. After expressing concerns about school credit for private language lessons, we have been getting more involved homework assignments and actually having to turn them in. So we'll get credit, which is a relief. After finishing my homework for the day, I went down to school and my studio.

Didn't spend a whole lot of time there, but put what will be, hopefully, the last required priming coat on my paper and then the real work can finally begin. While waiting for that, I played around with sumi and tried to put into practice methods from my free shodo class.

In language class, we had the normal oddball discussions here and there, politics came up, and from what I hear, the Japanese do not like Hillary Clinton. Or at least Yamada sensei does not. Then I heard something really funny about McCain, who is not reported on very much here. Apparently, translated to katakana, マケエイン, includes マケ ('make') which is 'defeat' and 'loss'. Quick, someone tell the press!