I’ve just finished my last August as a teacher so two months of working have now passed. I haven’t taken a look at my little retirement boat on the cyberbali.com site, but I know it is now in the 9 month period. As I continue to move towards retirement, the emotions swirling round the next stage of the life cycle become more heavily mixed than when I first decided that it was time to retire. I read an article the other day about retirement that quoted an academic who had been retired for a few years and compared the first year of retirement to the feeling of playing hooky from school. Just planning out today, I keep thinking that it would be nice if I had more time to get this and that done because two days is just not enough to do all the things that I would like to do, especially during baseball season when I put in a half-day of work every Saturday.
Book: Java: A Traveller’s Anthology
Compiled and introduced by James R. Rush, this anthology is part of the traveller’s series published by Oxford University Press. Java has 35 travel accounts by Westerners who landed in Java during the period 1330 through the 1980s. Some of these tales are intentionally quite humorous such as S.J Perelman’s account or the one titled, “John and Iris do Jogya;” others are unintentionally humorous such as Eliza Scidmore’s description of the Javanese as “…a little people, and one feels the same indulgent, protective sense as towards the Japanese.” Wow, talk about colonialism. This is one of those books for the specialist on Java or
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