[Note: Normally this kind of entry would contain pictures, however the pictures used on this journal (with the exception of the wedding photo) have disappeared from cyberspace and so there are no pictures for the time being. If I post pictures elsewhere I add a link on this journal]Leizel and I had a number of travel opportunities in the Fall of ( Read more... )

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My sisters were finally to make it out here for a 9 day trip and so I spent all of last week showing them some of the best that Tokyo, Kyoto, and my very own Mie had to offer. I think Kyoto may have been the best portion of the trip, and I certainly saw some really nice places there that I had never been to before. I intend to go back with Leizel ( Read more... )

This past weekend, Leizel and I went to a job fair in Tokyo for JET program participants. Neither of us had been to a job fair and it was pretty stressful overall. We signed up for the job fair back in May to hopefully provide us both with a "real" job (read: not teaching at an "English conversation" school) in the case that our transfer didn't ( Read more... )

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It is over. The exam is taken ( Read more... )

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Shibuya Station-front Intersection

Awhile back, I posted a picture of this location in my golden week entry. At that same time I also took a video of it. Unfortunately, I ran out of space on the camera before I could capture an entire pedestrian crossing cycle, but I think it still conveys the point.

Game music is without a doubt the genre of music I've had a sustained love for the longest. I've liked it as long as I can remember, but I didn't start really getting into "real music" until I was 13 or 14...and the bands I still listen to a lot I didn't really get into until late high school ( Read more... )