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Ruge

hoping for a return to the clairity i once enjoyed

About Me

I do things sometimes. I suffer from 20/20 hindsight. undefined.

My Interests

good quotes, NLP, drinking beer, chasing skirts, Japan, Japanese people, Japanese, ESL, Sake, Rio

I'd like to meet:

All my best friends in on the beach for a bbq. The human equivalent of Taggert, Galt and Roark.
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Books:

Kafka on the Shore, White Noise, Underworld, Catch 22, Atlas Shrugged, Cat's Cradle, Dune, Rendevous with Rama, The Corrections, Cien Años de Soledad, Siddhartha, Trout Fishing in America This is from a Murakami Haruki story that I love.

Heroes:

Walker,The Ultimate Warrior

My Blog

I Want to Gradute

Hello all! - ????? (it's been a while)I Want to Graduate   When the principal of my school rose to make his third and finalformal monotone speech I was filled with relief that the 'festiviti...
Posted by Ruge on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:06:00 PST

Alex Ruge: Cultural Learnings of Japan for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of America

Since arriving I have devoted myself to the Japanese language with thesame combination of obsession and laziness that I used to learn someSpanish in a past life.  Gradually, what was at first inc...
Posted by Ruge on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 01:36:00 PST

Scenes from a School Festival

I arrived at Mizunami High in the middle of summer break. As one wouldexpect, I was shocked to see uniformed students roaming the halls.  Ineach classroom students were preparing props and banner...
Posted by Ruge on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:08:00 PST

An Account of the Locust Attack (yes, locust, like in the Bible):

I have been trying for years to maintain a truce with the bugs of theworld.  I am kind to them, and put them outside when I find them.  Ikill only mosquitoes and anything that surprises me w...
Posted by Ruge on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 06:17:00 PST

Memoirs of an Ice Cream Man

As you may know I now reside in Mizunami city in the great prefectureof Gifu here in the good ol Japan, but it didn't start out that wayMy summer kicked off with all of the pomp, circumstance, and par...
Posted by Ruge on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 06:16:00 PST

Dear Myspace - A cover letter from overqualified

To: MYSPACERe: cats or lesbians.Dear MYSPACE, I am including my resume for your review, and I will be your choice for user interface designer. Read on and you'll see why. My resume outlines my extensi...
Posted by Ruge on Thu, 11 May 2006 12:49:00 PST

The Chrismahanukhwanzaakah Letter

"at the age of seventeen I decided to live an interesting life."-Alfredo de la RosaI come across a lot of quotes, but none of them has haunted me andthreatened to inspire me like this one.  I rea...
Posted by Ruge on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:29:00 PST

Central America - on the chicken bus

Buenas-So I have returned to the land of well paved roads and culturalpluralism just in time to enjoy the debauchery of college graduation(I still have a year remaining).The Story:Traveling Central Am...
Posted by Ruge on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:27:00 PST