Hey everyone, I wanted to share a little info with you. As of November 2nd, Japan has reestablished a policy of fingerprinting and photographing all foreigners who enter the country or foreigners who leave and return to the country. This was passed by the Prime Minister despite a 90% public opinion poll against the initiative. Prime Minister ( Read more... )

Dad's biopsy results came back. The initial MRI scans were wrong, there is no cancer! Dad's fine.

Dad has his surgery on Friday afternoon. I was able to talk to my sister, Megan on Saturday morning (still Friday evening back in America) and she said the surgean said nothing went wrong in the surgery. However, she also said that he couldn't see anything that looked like cancer. The reason dad had the surgery in the first place, as I had ( Read more... )

I've just spend basically every free moment of my life for the last day and a half reading the new Harry Potter book. She finished incredibly strong!

I finished work at 9:43 PM today. My supervisor sent me a message asking me to come over to City Hall at 4PM (I'm scheduled to finish at 4:10, but I don't mind going a bit over from time to time, since I generally don't have a lot to do on a school day afternoon and I'm occassionally allowed to leave work early at some schools). I found that the ( Read more... )

I've had my brother and Becca over at my apartment. ^o^ When they came to Japan, Becca was Patrick's girlfriend, when they left, she was his fiance. Patrick had me scout out some potential romantic places to propose and he chose Yoshikien garden in Nara Park. We celebrated by going to Saint Marc's, which scared me greatly for a moment as I ( Read more... )

I took the same "The Golden Compass" meme as Kate. If you haven't read the books, I highly, highly recommend them! I liked them so much I toted the extra pounds around India in my backpack to read before I went to sleep at night.

( Here is my daemon. )

*Laughs* Well, here is a MUCH smaller follow up to the “Faces of India” set. Here are three pictures of “Feet of India.” ( I promise I didn't include my feet in this set )

This first set will focus primarily on individual people I photographed while in India. There are some pictures with pairs of people and one of a group of school children, but generally I avoided group pictures for this set. I took a lot of group pictures and those will show up in other sets (particularly “Village Life”). As humans aren’t the ( Read more... )

Sorry for the delay in updating with pictures from India. I ran into a small problem when I got back from Japan. I had no disk space to transfer the pictures to my laptop. The gigabytes quickly disappear when shooting in RAW format I gigabyte is only about 75 to 80 pictures with my camera. So until I get into Namba to pick up a new external ( Read more... )