Well, since you're reading this, I guess it means I decided to update. And just how did my first ever Golden Week in Japan go?? Terrible!! I was sick from flu (Swine Flu, was it??? meybe!!) and thus was quarantined for 3 days. Oh well, it happened just after the Nariwa Kagura Matsuri, so I didn't miss that, and it rained for Children's Day, so ( Read more... )

I am completely obsessed right now with Eden of the East !!! It's like The Bourne Identity: the Animation, haha. They talk about 9/11 and Ground Zero a lot, so it's kinda treading in places not many anime have gone before... though as a big fan of Rescue Me, it's not my first time encountering a fictional-work that was based on a story centered ( Read more... )

I took this survey just before leaving for Japan.  I'll edit it just to the ones with new answers...

( Japanified Survey )

ahoy minna!!

my attention has been divided amoung many things as of late, and sadly my LJ was one of those things that had to be pushed aside.  Not that I haven't been blogging about everyday of my life in Japan on the internets... I've just been doing it in a more public-place.  The blog I set-up over at anime-source.com has proven to be very ( Read more... )

Humidity, weird food, hot-seated toilets, wacky tiny cars, and earthquakes... I've been in Japan for just 3 days now and already I've experienced more insanity than a whole month in America would ever bring.  Anyway, sorry to keep this short, but 5 days of seminar training and making new friends is taking up so much of my time.  Apparently there ( Read more... )

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is it the spacious skies? the amber waves of grain? the purple mountains majesty? the fruited plains?

nah, none of those.  Maybe it's family and friends?  yeah, sure, that's a given.  My little kitty cat, Mika-chan?  of course.  But there's something else that has been at my side since the day I was born... something that defines American culture ( Read more... )

How does caramel leak out of a Snickers bar??  I mean... come on!!  The caramel is the best part.  If anything, I want JUST the caramel.  Ugh... anyway, even though I'm watching Stephen Colbert interviewing a guy on the problem with branding becoming an epidemic in our society (interview sponsored by Dr. Pepper), it's time for an Adventures in ( Read more... )

Kinda depressing, in a way. I mean, yeah it's exciting that I'm getting set for a whole new journey, a whole new stage in life, but life in Hopedale has also been a big adventure and now that part of my life is ending. Living in the small town near the lake in the home where my grandmother spent so many years of her adult life has been a great ( Read more... )

Saturday, July 19th was supposed to be my last activity-date with my SFC2 girls, Naoko, Saki, and Asuka... but fortunately, we've managed to squeeze in one more outing together later this week. I have the photos from our trip to the fire station where I work posted, so I'll do a photo-journal entry for now ( Read more... )