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Please continue to remember Japan.

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/15/japan-earthquake-tsunami-humanitarian-effort

The conditions are still very hard, the nuclear situation serious, and the disaster will have a myriad of aftereffects on the country.

This seems a very dry way to summarize it, but it is hard for me to even have words, at least about ( Read more... )

Because it is the most personal thing I can be talking about to confess about my doubt on a manuscript, and because I started this blog as a kind of "professional writer" journal, I often forget how little I share about myself. And refer to things I think everyone knows, which just confuses things.

I have this problem in real life, too, where people ( Read more... )

初夢

The first dream of the year has a significance in  Japan (and probably other Asian countries). I can report my last dream this morning was a fun, adventurous one, not a nightmare, but some mash-up of Sungkyunkwan with some war  going on, all of which I only vaguely remember...

Typical.

Japan celebrates New Year according to the Gregorian Calender, ( Read more... )

Let's just be upfront here. The only linking theme between Sungkyunkwan Scandal and Himitsu no Hanazono is the cute middle-aged men:


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If I talk for more than a few sentences about my time in Japan, the jonesing to see my town again comes flooding in.

Living in Japan is the first thing I loved so much I was heartbroken when it was over. In fact, so far the only thing.


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Some of my last details/duties for Conestoga (this weekend) have been wrapped up.

Not all, of course.

But I had my inaugural costuming frenzy. I have to finish my masquerade mask trappings, but otherwise I think I'm set.


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Rambling Japanese Nostalgia Post

While reading the manga "Aishiteruze Baby" (Love Ya, Baby) [a completed series--is it sad that I am suckered in by that status now?]

there was a sequence where the high school characters are on a school trip. The developments involved are uninteresting out of context but there was one page that brought to mind a vivid ( Read more... )

{...I think I'm listening to Jeff Buckley for the first time. Is this possible? I know the name like it's important...}

So I've been falling for Shoujo Rom-Com (that may sound like a redundancy, but bear with me) lately.

Another instance of me succumbing to a love that brands me for an Uber-Nerd. I'm not complaining...it's more of a self- ( Read more... )