Something is seriously wrong with me. For the year it has been normal routine for me to stay up till the wee hours of the morning, sometimes even 7:00 - 9:00 am and sleep until around 2:00 - 3:00 in the afternoon. I did this all the time, except for when I had to get up and go to work. But even as a substitute teacher, sometimes I would be up ( Read more... )

I have an embarrasing secret to tell. Most people who know me know that I worked for Koei as a video game tester like 6 months ago. I still haven't gotten paid for it, because I never had a Japanese bank account. Because of September 11, Japanese banks have changed their policiy and its been very difficult for me to get a bank account because of ( Read more... )

Holy shit, I could not believe my eyes when I read about this! I remember over the past few weeks during the war, vaguely hearing the words "Freedom Fries" but never knew what exactly it was referring to. Then I heard from somewhere that it was America's desperate attempt to boycott France by renaming French Fries to Freedom Fries. The most ( Read more... )

Okay, folks...get ready for a long ass post with some serious venting. Being on a military base, I rarely speak my views about the issues listed in the title of this post. However, being that this is my own personal live journal, I consider this my forum to let it all out ( Read more... )

I have been scolded for my lack of entries during the past several months, as they were well deserved... I think what happened is that so much was happening that i didn't have time to log it all down!! There was my position at the video game place, my workings as a substitute teacher at the Jr. High, Elementary school and High School, my frequent ( Read more... )

Well, it's a bit dissapointing to say, but I havn't been doing much since I've been here. Most of it has consisted of getting stoned, watching movies, playing video games, sleeping and eating. It's not much of a change from Japan, except that I'm getting stoned. And eating Krispy Kream. I should stop talking about it or I'll want to go there now ( Read more... )

Since things in Japan had started to turn into a routine after a while, there really wasn't much to write about what was going on out there. But there have been some interesting changes ( Read more... )

Well its been a sad, jobless 6 months so far here in Japan. Plenty of possibilities that turned out with nothing, but now all of a sudden, this week has been filled with job possibilities....and ones that I like ( Read more... )

Thursday night, I talked to Federico online and he invited me to come with him and a friend to an amusement park on Friday. Of course, it meant that I would have to get up at the un-godly hour of 10:00 in the morning, but I figured I would just have to sacrifice ( Read more... )

I shouldn't have, but I did ( Read more... )