Okay, I get it, I swear I do: sensational news sells. Its about buisness, its about advertisement, its about how many people each hour or minute click a button ( Read more... )

I started this journal in March 2002. I was a junior in high school. I thought so differently then... or maybe not. I just cared about different things. And my mood swings, my lord. One day this peepy thing that said "eep!" and purrrrred at people, and did a lot of *writing inbetween stars* and such... oh the *poke*ing that happened ( Read more... )

I find myself being overly critical of other people. I don't mean just being critical often, or about petty things, but the level of my criticisim. Sometimes while sitting on trains, I'll people watch. I'll pick a person and unobtrusively observe them. Its easy to do without being noticed, because if you aren't sleeping (or pretending to) you have ( Read more... )

Shakespeare, Tale of Heike, and a Western in one. You'd think I'd like it, but I didn't. I thought most of the action was tastless. There was no emotional involvement with the characters, unless you just have sympothy for their pain (including rape, death of parents, having your balls cut off, and a lot of gun shot wounds ( Read more... )

How to describe this week? I'm struggling with how exactly to put this. Memories, emotions, whatnot, ideas... I guess I just lived this week. I have had better, worse, and more average weeks than this. But this week... maybe this week was a growing week ( Read more... )

A true moment in and out of time ( Read more... )

So there is this guy, a senior student named Shingo. He's a larger japanese student, a bit heavy set but very strong, as he is captian of the Judo club and practices religiously. He is pretty outgoing, loves to pull pranks, wants to teach english to middle school kids (and he passed the university interview too, so he will. Man it makes me proud ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Kozukata's 20th anniversary. So I got all dressed up like a professional person, and sat at the ceremony for about 5 hours. The first hour was hell. It was official, lots of bowing, keigo, and presents given to PTA presidents, all of the former principles, vice principles, and who knows who else ( Read more... )

Accomplishments since arriving in Japan ( Read more... )

(by family and I mean my mom and dad, since the boys are currently still gone ( Read more... )