Today I saw snow fall for the first time. I’d seen it on the ground before, while skiing at Falls Creek in Victoria around 11 years ago, but it was icy and probably artificial. Snow on the ground, but none in the sky. Today, though, around 8:00am, I saw snow fall, in plump flakes that [...]
I love working for Berlitz… Last week the Umeda school, where I am based, was briefly closed for renovations, so I got shipped out to the Kyoto Ekimae (“station-side”) school for two days. On one of those two days, a student cancelled their lesson after it was meant to begin, so I got paid to [...]
Everybody knows the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor and the rich get rich That’s how it goes Everybody knows Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” (Sung by Don Henley, ©1995) [...]
About two weeks I had my first ever paid-for article published. “Are Videogames Conservative?” appeared in the September edition of The IPA Review (57:3). Today, Libby Price, a presenter on Melbourne radio station 3LO, got in contact with me to do a radio interview. I managed to schedule a break in my Berlitz training so [...]
Last Tuesday, I confirmed that I had a job interview with Berlitz in Ôsaka, on Thursday. I called in my resignation from NOVA, with one day’s notice, at about 11:30. By 11:00 the next morning, I’d sent my luggage to a guest-house in Ôsaka, and was on the train to Tôkyô, ready to catch the [...]
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Kiss Me, Genius Boy is Ben Hourigan's debut novel, and the first of three volumes in the No More Dreams series. Available on the full range of ebook platforms starting at just 99c on Kindle, KMGB is an unforgettable tragi-comic tale of teen romance and obsession. Full details here.About
Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.
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