I realize that some of you may not have been in contact with me elsewhere already, so i just want to confirm that i am just fine here in Kyoto!

I'll edit this with more info later on, but there is not much to report from here...

I am thinking of going to Necto tonight...
Is anyone else?

BTW. I'm in Ann Arbor now. I leave for NYC on Wednesday, and will be back August 4th until the 11th. Then here again from the 13th through the 20th.

Same number as last time.

Let's have some fun!

[01:51] * adania went out to see a very good jazz pianist tonight, with friends of the pianist's father　http://www.mikihayama.com/

[02:16] i didn't eat dinner, thinking to get really awesome ramen on my way home after the show, but then we all went to a cafe for another drink after the ( Read more... )

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I have been asked by any number of students and others about new year's resolutions since the year began. I don't usually make one, but I decided that this year I would come up with a good resolution by Chinese New Year, and start it then (which is now ( Read more... )

I bought a garam masala truffle from a very hot Japanese guy at the handicraft market at Chionji on Monday. It was really good.

I went to a moonviewing party back in October or so and finally wrote a haiku that got into the top 5. A woman had played a gold-stringed harp for us during dinner before the haiku-writing started up. So i looked up "string ( Read more... )

I was just typing in IRC and remembered that i really mean to be posting here more... and so i lazily cut&pasted like the slacker i am.

[18:24] so i went to a pretty shrine and temple today [Kibune and Kurama]
[18:25] walking between them was about an hour hike up and then down a mountain
[18:25] a small mountain
[18:25] with stairs
[18:27] ( Read more... )

Classes are all done for the term. I still love this job. I have one final exam to proctor on Thursday, and grades to enter into the system, and then i'm free-- FREE for the summer ( Read more... )

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (i’ve read all of the Old Testament in Hebrew and English, but not much of the New one)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George ( Read more... )

This Sunday I am planning to go up to Hikone for the Booze Bar annual Hanami. Unlike past years, which were in the evening, this year will be starting at noon inside the outer moat of the Castle ( Read more... )