Wow, so...it's been awhile, eh? XD;;

Some quick news for anyone who's still out there in the Livejournal wasteland:

1. Still living in Chicago, though thankfully I was able to move to a lovely new, cockroach-free apartment in a better part of town, which is run by actual decent human beings.

2. My second novel, Following Grandpa Jess, will be ( Read more... )

Thanks to Hannah's l33t ticket-acquiring skills, today I was able to go see the D-Boys "Natsu-Doko" event. \(^O ( Read more... )

Sup. Just FYI, am still alive. Life's become very busy, not leaving me much time for updating livejournal, and overall things are good...though I need to find some kind of outlet for the anger/frustration/etc. I seem to be repressing on a daily basis. This is becoming kind of a serious problem, which I need to find some way of dealing with ( Read more... )

So, for anyone wondering, I'm back in the US at the moment. After a week-long barrage of worried pleas from my mom, I finally relented and agreed to come home for a short visit. I'm due to be here for a week, and of course won't be able to access my Japanese cell phone email for that time, so anyone wanting to contact me should use my yahoo ( Read more... )

Just a quick note to say: Made it through the earthquake(s) safely, though I did manage to injure myself in a way totally unrelated to the quakes when I tripped over the cord of my electric blanket and slammed down onto my knees on the kitchen floor. Well done, indeed. - -; We also had some non-tsunami-related flooding when I tried to fix the ( Read more... )

I've been studying Japanese a lot lately, and in my ongoing search for good study tools, I've found a few pretty nifty sites. In case anyone else is interested, douzoooo~~

Kanji InvadersThis is a pretty spiffy site for practicing your kanji. It basically works like space invaders (as you can probably guess from the title :P) - the kanji drops ( Read more... )

Quick thing. Since my novel's gone off the market and all the rights have defaulted back to me, I'm thinking about getting it professionally bound and thus having copies available to sell to anyone who might be interested. (And also finally having a copy of it to put on my own bookshelf, which has been my dream pretty much since the start. ;__ ( Read more... )

So, I've been watching a lot of Japanese dramas lately, two of which mentioned people having problems getting divorced because their partner wouldn't allow it. This seemed odd to me, so I checked up on divorce laws in Japan, and...geh. XD;;;

There's an article by a well-known foreign-rights activist here telling about his divorce and how the ( Read more... )

By the way, I forgot to mention ( Read more... )

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