Somewhere in Japan, a gaijin is longing for the trappings of America, so...
{sigh}....today is...or was, at least, an I-miss-Japan day. These come around every so often.
I suppose one of the downsides of having been to a lot of places is you get these "grass-is-greener" flashbacks, where you want to go back and check to see if that other place you lived before may offer a better deal than it did when, for one reason or another, you left. In the case of Japan, a quick review of the reasons I felt I was better off returning to the U.S. usually helps. Sadly, even under King Bush II, the deal is better for me here than in J-land. So for now, I can only reminisce.
Hence the picture below. Yokohama station West Exit, the Tokyu Hotel at my back, the Cial shopping mall to my left, a nameless Japanese Happo-shu in my hand (think malt liquor), standing around after work with other hapless English teachers, watching hapless salarymen, bored taxi drivers, scamming Nigerians, and tired and/or giggling teenagers. Ahh, yes. And of course, those little buns with chocolate cream inside. 6 for 100 yen. I miss those. Oh, and the tea. Always the tea. Ma-chan has heard my whining about the lack of cheap, available, non-sugary tea here at least 1000 times.
Ok, enough of that. After weeks of waiting for EMule to finish, I finally got Shaman King episode 7. It was good. Someday I should try to watch the new english dubbed version. Eventually.
Oh, I also heard from a friend in Barbados. Her greeting when we met was 'I don't like Americans". So of course, we became good friends! Anyway, when I saw the http://www.sorryeverybody.com/ website, I had to send it.
Ok, time for bed now.