And here I am, against all expectation, reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. This was not my planned activity for Japan, but events just sort of led to it.

The weather here is currently unbearable; walking outside is like being wrapped in a warm, wet, woolen blanket. You are quickly drenched, and not even really in sweat, but from the ( Read more... )

Okay, well, Tomoko is not exactly local... she's from Tokyo, quite a distance away. But I got to meet her today ( I met her before, but so briefly I can hardly count it), and she was very nice and helpful. Sarah took me to her cult fan club for Osa, an actress in the Japanese theatrical company Takarazuka. We had to leave quite early in the morning ( Read more... )

Today I woke up feeling sort of nervous and unhappy, as if I'd had a bad dream. A song came on my ipod this morning and it made me want to crawl back into bed and stay there for a few hours. I got up, though, watched another episode of Doctor Who (Ecclescakes)  with Sarah, and went with her to Starbucks before she went to work. I forgot to take my ( Read more... )

Well, well, well. Japan, so far, is pretty much as I thought it would be, although seeing it up close and personal is (like anything else) entirely different from the thought of it alone. I'm a bit too tired to recap every single thing, but I'll write down as much as I can for now.

My flight went amazingly well. Not even flights half as long, ( Read more... )