Hotpot has got to be one of the best foods in existence. For one thing, it's delicious. But even better than that, it lasts and lasts! Here I am having my sixth meal from the batch Eda and I had on Saturday -- though technically, it was two hotpots, since we had Sichuan and satay, so there was plenty of leftover broth, but I haven't yet had to ( Read more... )

How weird. Though I got home before 10:30, I feel like it should be much later. That's what happens when you get home near midnight every Tuesday for months, and then suddenly you don't need to stay late for rehearsal anymore! ^_ ( Read more... )

Me + camera + 8 1/2 hours of hiking in a forest = 12,908 pictures of moss-covered trees; 54,930 pictures of moss-covered tree stumps; 781 pictures of moss-covered rocks ( Read more... )

I returned from Kagoshima last night, making it home a bit before midnight. I'm not sure how much you Tokyo folks saw of the typhoon (I just saw the tail end of it, i.e. the rain, last night), but down in Kyushu, it was pretty impressive. Rain, wind, lightning, thunder -- or so Sarah tells me; I slept through it. Our room overlooked the bay, too ( Read more... )

Inui-sensei didn't let us go until midnight last night. Or rather, he didn't kick us out until midnight. And I asked him to go over stuff with me, so he isn't really to blame for the fact that I got home at about 12:40 ( Read more... )

Deciding that I'd spent enough money on eating out this weekend, and also that the world didn't need to be subjected to my sweaty, unkempt appearance for a third time today, I stayed in for supper. Besides, that's why God invented Kraft Dinner.

As a measure of how sad inspiring my life is, I feel that I accomplished a great deal today, simply ( Read more... )

Even though we took off an hour later than planned (same as when we left Narita!), I made it home before 5 this afternoon. Not that I've done anything since then, except for play "Let's see where Tabitha threw up on the tatami!". I think I found all of it ( Read more... )

[Tiffany, you can stop worrying, the landslide was nowhere near any place we ventured ( Read more... )

Today we leave Xi'an, taking our first domestic flight. Our big question is, do they care whethe. We bring liquids on the plane with us ( Read more... )

Our first full day in China was pretty incredible, and today we're going to do some sightseeing before getting on our train to Xi'an. The night train tickets were all sold out, so we're leaving in the afternoon and will arrive in the middle of the night. I'll have made a backpacker of Emily by the end of this trip for sure! ^_ ( Read more... )