I know i haven't updated much while i've been back over here ( Read more... )

I just successfully removed a rather large bat from my parents' house ( Read more... )

Last night i walked into a door. How dumb is that? Luckily i have sunken eyes, so the door just hit across my eyebrow and cheekbone. I iced it as well as i could (a bottle of gin wrapped in a cloth?) so it hasn't turned into a black eye yet ( Read more... )

Except a few things, i guess ( Read more... )

I have been chided multiple times for lack of updates, both online and in person, so i guess i'd better say something.
I am not dead. Nor hiding (i have been on trillian throughout my unpostingness)
Let me see... what has happened since April 10th...
( old-news )

I have moved. I don't have a phone there yet, which means I don't have internet yet (no nearby wireless to snitch). Which means I'm oh so lonely ( Read more... )

To those of you Japan-geography-challenged, that big earthquake this morning was nowhere near me.
I barely felt it. It was only about a 2 or 3 point quake around here. But the whole country felt something.
Thanks for your concern.
I hope that those out on the peninsula in Ishikawa are getting the help they need.

Some old guy helped me smash my company car into a wall yesterday ( Read more... )

OK ( Read more... )

I got a call today about my email to the school in Kyoto saying that i won't be able to accept their offer. As i suspected, they had thought that i had already agreed. Oh, the dangerous subtlety of the Japanese language. I understood that they had agreed to take me, i didn't know that they had assumed that meant that i was certain to accept them. ( Read more... )