I sent in the translation evaluation to TOKYOPOP, and they said it was good! I guess they have a lot of translators right now, but if I don't mind translating something "ultra sexual violent and bloody" then they may have something for me sooner. Pfffft...As if I mind. In fact something like that would have me absolutely thrilled ( Read more... )

So a guy at work today called me a retard when a told him he still owed EF money. This was of course right after a call where the woman on the other end informed me that I was "just a low customer service person" and demanded to speak with my supervisor. All this was almost made up for by the fact that on my first call of the day the guy tried to ( Read more... )

I finally stopped taking the Morphine a week ago, right after I had the bottle refilled. My last day on it was actually spent working at UNO's on Superbowl night. It was dead and the only 3 servers on were: a girl on Morphine, another girl who had only been out of the hospital for a week after being diagnosed with epilepsy, and some guy. It was a ( Read more... )

Autumn is my favorite time of year, but it's what comes after that really sucks. I always feel shitty this time of year, and now is no different. I'm starting to feel depressed that I can't find a stupid job having ANYTHING to do with major, and it's like 4 years at a good school gone to shit. I know there are things I can do to keep up with my ( Read more... )

I just finished reading "Dogs and Demons" by Alex Kerr, and it presents a very negative picture of Japan. I'm still not quite sure what to make of it. On the one hand I can't help but think that a lot of what he claims is true, but on the other hand how information is presented can be just as important as the cold hard facts themselves. I lived in ( Read more... )

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"So this Japanese reporter, after telling me what an aggressive, cocky, unfeeling nation the U.S. was, asked me if I thought America was the country least likely to apologize. I said to him, 'I don't know. If I was Chinese or Korean I might say the country least likely to apologize is Japan.'" -Dr. Watanabe, concerning the Ehime Maru incident.

One thing that I've heard over and over the last few weeks is "My wife is Japanese," or "My wife is Korean," or, "My wife is (insert random Asian ethnicity)" It's said by American men, a lot of time military or professors. This pisses me off for several reasons. Number one: Given the way the Asian women are exoticized, there is a definite tone of ( Read more... )