Lots of cosplay happening. Also, a typhoon. Oh, and sports day ( Read more... )

I somehow survived the grueling bike trip -- woohoo ( Read more... )

Happy Valentine's Day/Chinese New Year/Start of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics!A moment of silence for Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian luger who died on a practice run shortly before the games ( Read more... )

There's stuff I really should be doing - stuff like cleaning up after my three friends who were here - but that would require leaving my kotatsu. T_T Do not want. Should at least get ready for school tomorrow. Can do that while remaining mostly under the kotatsu I think. Every other month I change between the two junior high schools, one in my ( Read more... )

The Venerable Viscount von Awesome's Fancy Pantsy Cocktail Party* is this weekend and I have nothing to wear!

*hyperventilates*

But seriously. Do I dig out last year's Halloween costume (minus awesome hat which I don't have) to go as a guard? (Keeping in mind the fact everyone's already seen this costume.) Do I try and hunt down on awesome ( Read more... )

It's all Japan's fault.

No, really! It is! Back in the States, I usually only drank coffee when socializing. After a big dinner with family for example, or hitting up a restaurant with friends. I certainly wasn't drinking it every day, and I didn't need it to start the day off ( Read more... )

..they had DARK BEER at the enkai tonight.

LOVE!!!!!!!!

...I think this is the happiest moment I've had in Japan.

Though there was that one time with the trapeze artist...

So, uh, the Naked Cowboy is running for mayor of NYC.

France would be so happy. >D

Actually, it`s not as bizarre as it sounds. He does have a college degree in political science. And California DID elect Arnold Swartzenager as governer. Considering the mess that is Albany... Well... Yeah.I love my state. We just have a few issues ( Read more... )

I actually managed to sleep in today. I thought I might have forgotten how to do that, with as much as I've had going on lately ( Read more... )

It’s funny the things that conspire to collide together due to boredom, alcohol, and a bunch of foreigners shoved together in the tiniest prefecture in Japan.*

A good Canadian friend of mine here is quite an ardent proclaimer of Canadian independence. He has this whole spiel on how the queen of England is not the queen of Canada. And I don’t ( Read more... )