Soon I'm going to have to give in and go get groceries despite the seemingly unending rain. I had thought one of the perks of living in Hokkaido was that we didn't get the rainy season... not true this year. It's been raining for a week and shows no sign of clearing up til the middle of next week, maybe, depending on whose forecast you're checking ( Read more... )

Every so often I get this weird feeling in my body. It's happening now, and I finally thought of a way to describe it. It feels like the world is pivoting around a point that is somewhere in my head, like between my ears or a little inward from the base of my skull. My collar bone, shoulders and forehead feel it most, because these are the edges of ( Read more... )

I don't generally feel want strongly. There are transient, immediate wants, like cheddar cheese or to stop losing my gloves. But profound, life directing wants don't come very often. In the last 6 months I have wanted two things: to live in London, England at some point, and to go back to Iceland at some point. Neither came with a time frame or ( Read more... )