I love it.  I'm watching Japanese dubbed Unsolved Mysteries on TV.  The dubbed voices are great, but the fact that they are playing the music from the movie Halloween in the background is pretty great.  There is no shame in copyright infringement in this country.

I love Japanese fashion!  Even a lot of older women dress so well.  I walked through a department store today in Kita Senju because I saw an outfit displayed in the window that caught my eye.  That happens a lot here.  So I walked through the department store to find it.  There are so many cute things in almost every store.  I found the store I was ( Read more... )

I had to teach an interesting subject to an advanced class. We talked about cults. I got to teach them about the Manson Family, and they taught me about Aum, a Japanese cult that released poisonous gasses on the subways 19 years ago on the train lines that I use. They killed 12 people and injured over 6,000.

Later, police found that the cult's ( Read more... )

My electricity and water bill together was $35.

Eat that Tallahassee!

Guess who just bought 4 bootleg movies for $3 each at the local department store?  I did, I did!  They have Japanese subtitles on them, but for $3 that's not bad.

-Nikki 

So it's almost time for me to apply for school, and I'm really excited that we set a goal to be in Boston by next summer ( Read more... )

We found mystery feces in our upstairs computer room, maybe 2 mm in diameter and an inch and a half long. Too small for a dog or cat, too large for a mouse ( Read more... )

I'm knee deep in photography, and it feels great ( Read more... )

Listening to a Billie Holiday sample in a Venetian Snares song, and I so badly wanted to find out where I can find the original. This is what I found...

Gloomy Sunday" (from Hungarian "Szomorú Vasárnap", IPA: ['somoruː 'vɒʃarnɒp]) is a song written by the Hungarian self-taught pianist and composer Rezső Seress in 1933. According to urban legend, ( Read more... )

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