It’s the class type that changes your own comments to a different color. There should be some conditional code there that checks to see if user_id=1, and if so, it gives a class that looks like “authcomment” or something.

Once you know what the class is called, go into style.css and search for it. It probably says something like background-color: UGLY; — just change it to instead say background-color: NOTUGLY;, and you’ll be good to go.

Of course, if you’re using a comment plugin of some kind, the highlight may be coming from it instead. Quick fix would be to turn off the plugin; otherwise, you ave to go into the code of the plugin and change the css to NOTUGLY.

Anyways, to answer your question, it’s still too early to say whether I’ll be staying in Japan beyond my initial seven-month contract. My feelings regarding my time in Japan change every day according to some strange astrological equation. But overall I do not really enjoy the job enough to feel justified in staying on with my company despite the good experiences I’ve had outside the classroom. It’d be cool to be able to stay longer, but I’m already sort of on my last legs as far as the job itself goes. I’ll keep you updated.

And I took a look at that website you linked to. It is an interesting idea, although I personally place too much value on my abilities with the written and spoken word to declare a moratorium on all English for months and months. I was an English major in college and have always done a lot of writing, so I’m not sure I’d be willing to let all that rust while I went and learned a new language through immersion of that sort. That program probably works well, but it’s farther than I’m willing to go at this point. I definitely will try to incorporate aspects of that guy’s ideas in my own studies though.

I have watched all your videos on youtube, and it is really cool. I am jealous of you, as right now I am trapped in an American high school for three more years -sigh-.

Anyways, you have made quite a few references to how Japan is kind of sucking for you, because you can’t communicate with anybody. So, I thought I would link you to this site.

http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/all-japanese-all-the-time-ajatt-how-to-learn-japanese-on-your-own-having-fun-and-to-fluency

It is this guy’s blog, were he discusses how he learned Japanese fluently by just immersing himself in it, which I thought my be helpful/motivational to you.

Also, I already asked this on youtube (but I am to lazy to see if you answered), is there any chance you will live in Japan for more than seven months?

Well, I really enjoy your blog and youtube videos! Keep up the great work!