I love reading the blogs of some of my favorite authors. Neil Gaiman, Catherynne Valente, and Theodora Goss tend to rank the highest so I try to go through most of what they write. Behind them I look towards Patrick Rothfuss, Ellen Kushner, and Terri Windling as well (but only when I remember, haha).

Theodora Goss wrote a recent entry that I've ( Read more... )

I was walking home from work the other day and popped into Whole Foods for some insta-sushi as I had a craving for it. Sitting outside in the slightly-muggy sunshiny day I took a moment to be thankful and - more importantly - laugh at myself. Here I am in etsy-bought yoga gear eating brown-rice sushi with pomegranate green tea outside of an ( Read more... )

Words cannot express the rollercoaster that this year has been - and the craziness that the end-of-the-year move to my new apartment will bring. From Australia back to Japan back to LA and thence to Washington D.C., this has been a crazy hectic year for me. It has been an amazing, amazing year full of unforgettable memories, the wonderful people, ( Read more... )

I'll be 27 in two days. Time seems to be going by so fast; flying by, even. It's almost hard to believe that one year has passed and my time in Australia is up. I remember last year's birthday so vividly because I was all alone in a foreign country having moved there mere weeks ago and barely knew any of the international students there. None of us ( Read more... )

Thoughts on my first week in Melbourne:


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Twenty years from now you will be
more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.

~Mark Twain
Little by little, day after day, hour after hour, I count up to my one year anniversary here. It is mere ( Read more... )

Got off work and went meandering with my roommate around where I live. It was rather nice to have someplace else to go besides Shinsaibashi (which I will be heading to later tonight anyway).
I found: a Softbank (in case I need something done to my cell phone), A KFC hidden away, a bowling alley, a couple of cheap clothing shops, some non-expensive ( Read more... )