My throat started tingling the second I set foot in my room yesterday and I've started coughing. I'm worried, but I'm not on tour again until Namibia, so I guess I have 3-4 days to figure it out. As long as I don't lose my voice, I'll be okay for my lectures now ( Read more... )

This is my transition time song, or one of them.

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I'm leaving tomorrow morning.

Goodbye to the things that hurt and drag and won't let me go. GO AWAY.

I only want to keep the precious things, the things that I love and appreciate and want to keep shiny and new. I want to be someone who doesn't make these same mistakes twice.

Relax, breathe, think less, smile more, do what makes you happy ( Read more... )

I can't believe I'm only the second boy you've ever going to kiss.

Today I sat next to a sumo wrestler on my train ride home.

He smelled nice.

We drank champagne at work today (something good happened, but they wouldn't care if we did spontaneously, either).

The COO came back after lunch with a mohawk (no, he did not have one before).

Today was pretty fun.

Still with the Truman Capote:

She could see that he was from the mountains: his straw country hat and the worn-out blue of his thick shirt told her as much. He was a ginger color, his skin shiny as a lemon, smooth as a guava leaf, and the tilt of his head was as arrogant as the black and scarlet bird he held in his hands. Ottilie was used to ( Read more... )

いつもお前にいいところを見せようと　強がりばかりで

You don't know, I won't let you see me
I will hide, I will lie as true as can be

IT MAKES ME SO SAD that I don't know where a lot of my CDs are. They're obviously not here with me in Japan, but I used to have all of my music burned and digital, and after rounds of computer switching and data loss there are so many gaps ( Read more... )

I took a two-day trip to Okayama with a Korean friend from work. Okayama is purported to be the home of the legend of Momotaro, and besides that it has a gorgeous castle, one of the top traditional gardens in Japan, and a really great old-style Japanese quarter.


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Winter means it's time to listen to BUMP OF CHICKEN's Snow Smile, among other Christmas-y favorites. [I'm so thankful that winter is cold -- it gives me the best excuse to invite your left hand into my right pocket♪]

I love that reading the lyrics makes each song twice as beautiful.

I love this line in レム-- If you're going to resent that you ( Read more... )