Cora's Hobbies & Miscellaneous Links

Besides listening to music, I have a number of pastimes (or obsessions, some people might say) including: watching the TV show "Lost", ballroom dance/aerobics/DDR, following the latest sumo tournament, seeing movies, sudoku, and collecting various cute kappa items.

DC Area Ballroom and Swing Dance Events

• DC area ballroom dance calendar
• Washington Swing Dance Committee
• Swingout DC
• Lindy Hop Calendar
• Centuries Historical Dance

Sumo Links

• Sumo Association: English
  Click here for reports from the most recent Basho updated daily!!
  The tournaments are held in January (Tokyo), March (Osaka), May (Tokyo), July (Nagoya), September (Tokyo), and November (Fukuoka)
• Sumo Association: Japanese
  
• Akebono biography - he retired in January 2001 after a magnificent comeback. I was fortunate to see him win the Kyushu Basho in November 2000.

• Notorious (Hitchcock 1946)
  
• Good Will Hunting
  
• The Wedding Singer - of course, has lots of 80s music!!

• Web Sudoku, ranging from Easy to Evil
  
• Nikoli's "How to Play Sudoku" useful tips
  
• A nanpure [Number Place] website (Japanese)
  

• Overview: "Big In Japan"
  
• Tanushimaru: The Town Full of Kappa
  
• Kappa Quest 2000
  

Homepage for my favorite Japanese baseball team, Hanshin Tigers (Japanese website)
They happen to be doing pretty well this year. A former star of the team, Shinjo, played last year with National League champions the San Francisco Giants. In fact, he became the first Japanese player to hit in the U.S. World Series!! Then he returned to the New York Mets in 2003 and had a spectacular pre-season record, but didn't do well in regular season, so now he's returned to Japan where he plays for a pro team in Hokkaido. His Japanese fan page is here.