I'm not doing a great job of sleeping lately, sad, as this is usually one of my strongest suits. Anxiety!

Anyway, I woke up at 12am after sleeping for maybe two hours last night and was struck by the urge to learn about Iman... Somalian women... Waris Dirie... female genital mutilation... it's a natural flow, all right?Burning curiosity sated, I ( Read more... )

I have actual posts and thoughts to catch up on, but in the meantime, I'm curious. How much do people care about things like finding hair in their food ( Read more... )

Having three straight days off and no real plans has been beautiful -- sleeping late, going on walks, eating ice cream, watching sumo, window shopping ( Read more... )

As I pass by the dozens of old people on the streets in Japan ( Read more... )

I went to the sand dunes again with our batch of new JETs. Spending the last two days out of the office for this orientation and taking Thursday off to go to the doctor has effectively ensured that I will be working non-stop (and probably overtime) to tie all my loose ends this week ( Read more... )

I spend so many of my waking (and non-working) hours obsessing over scenarios that involve Jin and Yamapi and eternal love that I have begun to wonder what my other hobbies are. By this I mean hobbies that the general population could participate in and maybe even relate to ( Read more... )

My days of browsing job listings and telling myself I'll study Chinese continue. I'm brought to believe this will all change in August, but damn that's still far away ( Read more... )

A schoolgirl I have never seen before called out to me, "りささん、頑張ってね" (Lisa, do your best!) as I was walking around town today.

I'm so confused. I don't forget faces of people I've met.

Tomorrow, local NHK is coming to interview my co-worker! Must dress nicely~♪

After taiko today ( Read more... )

I don't have to work today until noon! It's a Sunday, yes, but I won't have a day off until I get back to Japan, so this is exciting.

Not that I'm spending my morning well.

I did the FriendFacts thing on Facebook because I was pretty sure mine would be pretty skewed. I didn't realize just how skewed ( Read more... )