on the atlantic towards Santo Domingo ( Read more... )

AM: Spent at a rural elementary school giving a quick presentation about America and playing games with students ( Read more... )

These old people I'm meeting talk exactly the way I imagine Johnny Kitagawa must talk. SERIOUSLY IT'S AMAZING.

There are a group of maybe 7-8 old Japanese-American men that we have been interacting with here, and they speak a pretty high level of Japanese. However, there are certain words that they will always say in English, or katakana-ized ( Read more... )

「赤西仁と山下智久はとても仲がいいようですね ( Read more... )

After reading President Obama's autobiography, I decided to go with something lighter today, so I read (and finished!) The Golden Compass.

I love fantasy, but I've begun to grow out of it... or, at least, the young adult variety. I had difficulty believing this was supposed to be an 11 year old at times, and the quintessential concept of the main ( Read more... )

Today at work I had to translate a contract. It was like pulling teeth, but I'll be finished with it tomorrow. I think when I'm done and it's edited that I want to print it out and frame it -- clearly this is the apex of my Japanese ability. It will never get better than this, unless I need to write something for the Emperor to see ( Read more... )

I've had absolutely nothing to do at work for the last 3 or 4 days. I've been reading advice columns and trying to keep myself on news sites, but I can't keep it up for an entire day ( Read more... )

Master list (if I have enough self-discipline to update it) of songs I have romanized and translated to English in the not-so-distant past. If I were to comb through the stuff at animelyrics, I'm sure I would find a lot more stuff that I did three, four, five years ago. The links mostly go to my website, which I have finally been working at ( Read more... )

I want to like Okadaira Kenji's post-19 stuff so badly but I just ... don't, really. Same goes with Keigo's solo stuff, but if anything I dislike his new style a lot. Funny how much I loved them when they were together, though? I want to find another group that I can like just as universally as I do their music. :/

Today I... ( had lunch and went shopping with Mercy. )

I suppose one could argue that this is not actually considered rap, but putting that aside-- I wonder why Japanese or even Chinese rap sounds so much more pleasant than American rap does ( Read more... )