I wish I'd had a harder time in school ( Read more... )

Dear diary,

Today a three-year-old punched me in the dick.

Okay, if I don't go to at least one day of BoroFesta and stop by 1H1D!!! while I'm in the area, I don't deserve to be in this country.

I became a member of a nearby gym today and immediately saw a guy do his entire workout in a bright orange T-shirt, matching luchador tiger mask, and a pair of jorts cut off in a way I can only describe as "artful."

I picked the right gym.

Japan has been pretty nice lately, especially in terms of weather. It's been rainy today, but before that, we had the longest uninterrupted streak of really, really nice days I've seen since getting here. The cherry blossoms have come and mostly gone. This past weekend, a JET friend of mine had a birthday and decided to celebrate by dragging many ( Read more... )

Watching this video repeatedly is the only thing I have done on the internet all week.

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Travel tip: If you go to Japan, don't get sick. I've been fighting a variety of throat-y symptoms for a few days now and today I left work early and went to a doctor who spent about thirty seconds listening to my chest and three seconds looking in my mouth and told me I had a cold, thanks, here are some pills, come again. He did not ask me any ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that I haven't posted here since returning to Japan ( Read more... )

This winter break has repeatedly kicked my sense of time in the head. International flight shenanigans aside, since arriving I've been getting up early to travel to another time zone, alternating between crashing at 3 AM and crashing at 10:30 PM, and wrestling with the forgotten child part of my reptile brain that still remembers that Tomorrow Is ( Read more... )

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