(Current header image: Pond in the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco.)
Who: Dana Watson
What: Currently working for a university as a program coordinator (coordinating a study abroad program in China, an MA program in East Asian Studies, and the visa stuff and questions of a variety of visiting scholars from East Asia). Was previously a Spanish and Latin American Studies major, an English teacher in Japan on the JET program, a frustrated grad student and ESL teacher in Michigan, and the assistant manager of an autism bookstore.
When: Born March 22, 1980.
Where: Natively of Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Now living in NC again, after 4 years in Iowa, 1 year in Japan, and 2 years in Michigan.
Why: Why not? Blogging is addictive.
Hobbies: Reading, blogging, traveling, practicing Shotokan karate, cross-stitching, decorating tea tins, stitching temari balls, accumulating hobbies…
Contact: linguisticlife at yahoo dot com
Bribes: Can be purchased from my wishlist.
Other locations in the vastness of the internets:
Geek Buffet, where I put my more thoughty thoughts (2007-present)
Dana Goes to Japan, from when I was interesting (2002-2003, currently under reconstruction)
Linguistic Life, from when I was in grad school, and recovering therefrom (2003-2007)
My homepage, where particularly intrepid individuals can peruse the remains of my teaching career, and also see some random pictures