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Today while I was at work, there was a rather massive earthquake. 5.6 magnitudes. -
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I'm going to Tochigi and Fukushima next week for a short stint of training at the factories. I'm looking forward to it a lot. I hope I'll get to eat a lot of yuba. Mm, delicious yuba. -
It was the best of times
Last night, on my evening walk, I had the incredible luck of running into Tsunoda, Kagetani and my beloved section chief as they were leaving work at some ungodly late hour. They were sweet enough to ask whether I'd had dinner yet, and to invite me to eat with them when I said no. We were right at the door to a restaurant, when section chief had a ( Read more... ) -
Not the best shout-out to Google Translate
I've pretty much become the in-house english-japanese-english translator at work along my other duties ( Read more... ) -
Burning regrets
It's been nearly two months and I'm pretty lonely and deprived of human contact. It's not that I miss my friends or my family, but rather I just feel like I'm alone with my thoughts a bit too much. I feel like it's dulling my reactions ( Read more... ) -
Embarrassing confession time
I have a complex about handshaking ( Read more... ) -
Everyone at my work is adorbs
I've taken up answering the phone at work. I only take it if the calls are from our branches or factories though, because I might mess something up, and it would be embarrassing if it was a customer ( Read more... ) -
Positive
I had manner training at work today. Also my new "improved" uniform arrived. I looked at the vest, and could tell by a glance that it was going to be too big again. Mihara came to check up on me, and while we agreed on the vest, I tried them on anyway. The pants were about 30cm too long, and when I pulled them up they were loose and the waist was ( Read more... ) -
Never be the same again
My brain's been too full of work and the Isla Vista killings, that I still haven't gotten around to telling very many of my friends that I'm here. Last week I wrote to Yukiko, and we hung out on Sunday. She was quite surprised, though she did admit she'd noticed my sudden disappearance from the photos my Mom posts on Facebook, but had simply ( Read more... ) -
Life update
Incidentally, I moved to Japan to work earlier this month ( Read more... )