I took a cold shower, found the AC unit, and am now chilling online for a bit before I go to sleep. Gmail still hates me, and Yahoo mail does not even load. Perhaps I should look into popping in at an Internet café tomorrow and seeing if it's something funny with the hotel's network. I'm going to be in Akihabara, anyway, and I know I can get free ( Read more... )

Non-KoLers will find this post cryptic and bemusing, but I just narrowly decisively kicked the Naughty Sorceress's ass and Ascended. And it was funny. Now I am a naked Disco Bandit. Wait, I have a mask. Now I'm a naked-everywhere-it-counts Disco Bandit with a serious need to PUMMEL SPIDERS.

Bedtime's getting rolled back another half hour.

And I am much more excited about this than I should be. I don't even want to think about how long I've been trying to scrape together the necessary fifty thousand (50,000) (五万) meat for it. Seriously, I was ready to hunt down Antonio and carve a few pounds out of his flesh. With my mafia. My meat mafia ( Read more... )

'Tis spring, the season of sakura. We won't be getting any cherry blossoms up here for weeks yet, but I decided to give the Bwuh Bunny icon a makeover in honor of the season. Also because Photoshop is one of my favorite ways to avoid real work.

By the way, KoL is running an amusing April Fool's Day gag right now. And I really miss The GIA, which ( Read more... )

I went to a party on Saturday with several ALTs, a few students, and some other Japanese folks, most of whom are affiliated with education in Shimokita in some capacity (except for the curry guy, who is in a class by himself, and his eleven-year-old son, Taimu, whose name is written 大武 but who was named for the companion herb of parsley, sage, and ( Read more... )

The principal admitted to me today that he doesn't know how to operate the coffee maker. In addition to amusing me, this explains why he so often has a wistful smoke near the machine and perks up when I come in and exercise my grounds-fu ( Read more... )