Hmm.  Not being Japanese?  That's pretty hard, though liberating in equal measure ( Read more... )

Well, finally, some excellent news to tell you about!  I just found out this lunchtime that I have been offered a teaching position on board the 73rd Peace Boat voyage.  What this means is that I will be travelling around the world for 3 months whilst working as an English teacher on-board a cruise ship!  This plan has been in the works for a while ( Read more... )

Despite my best intentions when I returned from Bali to make a little more time for doing nothing, which means actually relaxing at home with a good book, I have had remarkably little time to do so this month.  The weeks have flown by once again, and there seems very little to show for, although a far deal of stuff was done.

Back at the end of ( Read more... )

I was down by the river taking a walk this morning and saw a few things that set Japan aside from others:

• a woman running along the path wearing a t-shirt that read " I am not a virgin"
• a guy sitting on a park bench, headphones on, cigarette in mouth,  doing stretches
• three women hugging a tree
• a guy walking down the street misting his hair with a ( Read more... )

See here.

My neighbour has just kicked off a bout of something noisy.  I may be on here again later...

Back in October I wrote about my vegetarian moral dilemma www.kittygoth.livejournal.com/tag/vegetarianism.  It was all very, "Oh! What should I do!" before having an attack of the vapours and having to lie down (by which read "melodramatic").

Today I'm just going to have a rant. But first I'm going to show you a picture I found somewhere.


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It's gone midnight here. I won't be sleeping anytime soon so I thought I'd post an update. I haven't much time of late for even sitting down. My days are still a blur of chlorinated water, train journeys, bad grammar and the throb of the last few crickets and cicadas ( Read more... )

I've been monitoring with mild amusement the current hoo-haa going on in England about Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Chicken Out campaign, and Jamie Oliver's own show on the same subject. Alas, I've been unable to actually watch these shows, so my thoughts can only be based on the responses I've read to them in
The Observer and various other ( Read more... )