Dear lord it's good to be back in Nagoya. 'Scuse me while I go fall back in love with 日本 land again...

I just sent an email to my (ex) professor at UMass Amherst, explaining why I won't be attending school this fall. I'm shaking, and I'm not sure why. I've thought about this for too long. I am torn between feeling the most free I've ever felt, and absolutely fucking terrified for getting rid of my safety net.

I'm going to go get a drink now, I

So.... 12 days left in Japan - and only five and a half or so of those in Tokyo - yes ( Read more... )

Okay. Two weeks in Tokyo down, and I'm ready to cut and run. There are too many people in this city, too much concrete, too much humidity, not enough internet access, and living here is way too damn expensive. I'm worn out from nightmares, and from not being able to sleep because my apartment is surrounded by love hotels and pachinko parlors and ( Read more... )

Greetings from the Mac store on Ginza Yon-chome - I am officially 携帯’d。 For all of you in Japan, the number is 08034557312. For all of you outside Japan there's something weird with a deleting the first 080 and adding an 81. I think. Maybe. Anyway. Call me!

In Japan.

Will have a phone soon (I hope) and will distribute number accordingly.

Sleep now.

In the past week I have ( Read more... )

Guess what I did today? Me and Matt went to the humane society, and we adopted two kittens. We've named them Chuck and Taylor. Chuck is mine - he's a grey-brown tabby, and Taylor belongs to Matt - she's brown tabby with white patches. They are the awesomest kittens EVER. Matt's going to take care of them while I'm in graduate school. I don't know ( Read more... )

Life as crazy as ever, these days. Tomorrow's my mom's birthday, so we're having some sort of shindig tonight, and lots of prep all day. To say that I am sleep deprived and functioning at less than full power is putting it mildly. I can't even see straight. Not that that will keep me home tonight ( Read more... )

I am CRAZY.

But there is a boy in Albuquerque who doesn't seem to mind too much.

Will stop gushing soon, I promise.

Meanwhile, check out the song we recorded, 'cause it's AWESOME.

http://www.myspace.com/thedrearies