For those of you looking at my new LJ icon like, WTF, I found a new obsession: J-Dramas. I thought Korean dramas were addicting. But J-Dramas take the cake now. And they're only 10 episodes instead of 22. So it doesn't take as long, LOL. Anyway, my friends and I have been watching Love Shuffle, which is really, really cute. And very witty. We're ( Read more... )

In honor of Harry Potter this afternoon:

Which Hogwarts House Are You In?

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I was on the shuttle on the way back from the library and there was a Japanese couple with their kid who hopped on and sat across from me. I was too shy to say anything, so I pretended not to understand while eavesdropping on their conversation because I am creepy. I was trying to see how much Japanese I could still understand. Quite a lot, by the ( Read more... )

*My TV has eaten Bravo. All I want to do is sit here and watch some Doogie-Howser era Neil Patrick Harris but nooo, Sports Center South ate the channel the movie is on. Plus three other channels. I want to e-mail comcast, 'cause seriously? Do we need to have Sports Center South on three different channels? They're not even talking about anything ( Read more... )

Just wanted to let y'all know I'm home! I'm incredibly jet-lagged (got to bed 11:30 EST and woke up at 5:30 am, brain wondering why the heck I wasn't at work) and my flight was surrounded by a series of misadventures. Couldn't carry my luggage across the street to the bus station, so a Japanese politician carried it for me (nice of him). Then I got ( Read more... )

Just to let y'all know the Internet guy is set to come to my place in like fifteen minutes to take out my modem, so I'll see you again in September! Closer to the Atlantic Ocean than the Pacific! With my family! And friends! Whoo!

Aaack. My Thursday kids are the best. Just as I was leaving, they wrote 'Arigatou' and 'Daisuki' (I like you) on my hand, and then wrote 'Sarah Sensai: Arigatou!' on the white board and then wrote it down on paper, because paper is more permanent than that white board ( Read more... )

My eye has been hurting since yesterday afternoon. I thought it was pink eye, but it seems to be doing just a little bit better and I didn't wake up with crust all around it, so maybe I'm ok. Christ if I know why. I ran cool water into it and it burned. Probably a bad sign. I don't remember getting any chemicals into it, unless shampoo ran into my ( Read more... )

1. Watching the Olympics here has been so much fun! No commercial interruption during the actual Olympics! And the Japanese have been a lot of fun. Apparently they've only won one bronze medal and the Japanese broadcasters are like, "Nippon, pull yourself together!" ('Nippon' being the elitist, patriotic word for 'Japan ( Read more... )

There is a new Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) film out in Japan. It has a theme song. The kids all sing it. I hear it on television. It's everywhere. I already feel like I'm gonna explode if I hear it again, and I don't even understand Japanese, nor do I even know the title of the film. *g ( Read more... )