I don't want the time to pass without marking it. I, very suddenly (to me) lost a friend this past weekend. It coloured my mood a fair bit, as you can imagine. I'm far away from her family, and mine, and our friends, and it all seems incredibly surreal. I want to offer condolances to everyone there, but don't know the best way/time to go about ( Read more... )

With all the madness that's been going on you can bet I have pics to prove it happened:


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Interesting Times, are what I'm having. It kind of seems as though the Universe is deterimine to make my remaining time here as Spectacular Spectacular! as is possible!

The hanami at Marugame was great, and turned out to be the only hanami I'll do this year, which also made it my last hanami in Japan ( Read more... )

I have no idea how long this will be news - eventually Amazon will settle on an official explanation ($5 says "homophobic gremlins in the server") and offer appologies and it will all be fixed and we'll stop grumbling.
But for now: What The Fuck, Amazon??!!

AP: Amazon 'glitch' removes sales rank from gay books
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..Is the subject line from a private message that I received at my Reddit account.
The full text is:

Dear Friend, I know that this is an unusual platform for us to be discussing this Kind of business but the situation has necessitated me to use this Medium to communicate you for now. But let me introduce myself to you. I am Miss. Elizabeth Mark ( Read more... )

Hm, I was enjoying my morning of reading funny blog articles when I was suddenly thrown into a mood of contemplativeness. Partially inspired by this post by ageha_ya, and this article at the Washington Post. As we approach the year 2010 (which, do we have a name for that yet?) we seem to hear more and more about how we as Society are Moving Past Race/ ( Read more... )

Today was the Entrance Ceremony For New Students, and also (as far as I can recall) the last official ceremony I'll ever have to sit though. I've had my suit in my locker since graduation, so I changed when I arrived and looked sharp for all the visiting parents. One of whom is actually a friend - Aki, who works at Gowariyasu aka La Guardia aka ( Read more... )

I don't want to get too excited here, but...I got an interview with Peace BoatEver since I sent in my application I have been waiting as patiently as I can for any news. When I sent the forms in I felt a little strange that they didn't ask for an email address, but I assumed they'd be sending invites by post. And for some reason, despite a LOT of ( Read more... )

This morning, my last day off of Spring Break, I was woken up at 7:30am by the loud scraping sounds of workmen using shovels to clear plants and grass growing on the egdes of my street.
They are lucky I didn't throw my recycling at them.

Big surprise, I took a bunch of pictures again. This batch includes shots of the trip to Naruto, some temples/shrines, sumo, and an English camp. Also a lot of food that I ate.


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