No body, bad! This is not the time to get sick! No sore throat on the overseas flight! Nooooo ( Read more... )

Thursday: train ride of Doom, it was a bonding experience for our little group. Augh ( Read more... )

Are students expected to have meishi? I got my hands on some perforated buisiness card blanks, but I don't know any of the information for where I'll be reachable in Japan. I could do some with my email and website only, or I cold wait and bring them with blank, or just not bother ( Read more... )

Well, I'm here in a hotel room in Richmond Indiana, on my way back to MD from gen con and Robin's apartment. The con was huge, it was sort of like getting all the cable channels but still having nothing good on. I guess that's the price you pay for being tied to a booth the whole time. I would have liked to have gotten out and done more, maybe ( Read more... )

I've spet the day watching anime, napping, pigging out on spicy salsa and reading up on Japan. In less than a month I'll be driving to Indiana, then at Gencon (for which I really need to get to work on masks/get in touch with Leslie), then driving home from Indiana-- need to figure out how I'm doing that... I really don't want to make that drive ( Read more... )

I. Have tickets. To Japan! Glee ( Read more... )

The schedule for the rest of my time this year at Beloit ( Read more... )

I think I've just been hit in the face with what I want to do with my life, or at least a significant portion of it. Everything I enjoy most- folk tales, theater, crafts, painting, sewing, Japanese, voice work, writing, translation-- I have to start doing Bunraku. Traditional Japanese puppetry. I bet if I went and studied the ins and outs of ( Read more... )