Well... I made it to Tokyo. Got a headache lugging around Dax through Nagoya and Tokyo. But Tylenol quickly took care of that. I still have a lingering cold - it's just a cough. But now it's like my ears won't pop. It's really annoying. But the best, the BEST, thing so far is the bed in my hotel room. It's been so long since I slept in a REAL bed, ( Read more... )

Well.. These few weeks have actually been pretty good. I'm been working hard and hardly working... All in the same week! LOL ( Read more... )

So my package from Canada failed to be delivered today. No problem, I thought. There's a number on the bottom for English service. Yeah. Can't be made from a cell phone. What a pain in the ass. So I girded my loins and made the call to the Japanese number. It went swimmingly! I'm going to get my package between 7 and 9 pm tonight! It's sure some ( Read more... )

I found a kanji training game for the DS in a second hand video game store. It's pretty neat. It goes all the way down to hirigana and katakana too so at least the kanji aren't all foreign to me. It's like Brain Age, 5 minutes a day to improve your kanji! It even came with the nintendo version of a shodo brush, I thought that was excellent. But I'm ( Read more... )

Good news! My teeth stopped bothering me! Thank GOD because that could've been a real nightmare ( Read more... )

Well... This weeks gone pretty well. Not much has changed, but I guess I'm handling things a bit better now ( Read more... )

I'm homesick. I've had my first bout of "I wanna go home NOW!" syndrome. I'm really lonely and usually I go people watching when this happens but it's one of those days where I acknowledge the fact that in the sea of people everyone is in couples and groups and I'm the only one sitting by myself ( Read more... )

I guess miso cup ramen is a seasonal thing out here... I mean, in September I could find maybe one kind, but now they're back up on convenience store shelves. I bought an EXTRA large one for today. ^_ ( Read more... )

I've officially made it through my first month. My self intros are FINALLY over. So far it's been a mostly positive experience ( Read more... )

No. No I haven't been crying. But when I read that tidbit on Dominic Deegan I had to smirk ( Read more... )