This is a work in progress but I like where it seems to be going ( Read more... )

Let's make a toast. I'm raising my glass to loneliness, talentlessness, ronin, friendship, blank pages, love and hate, pain and joy, exhaustion, broken pencils, daydreams, sleeplessness, and all the unsettling things of this world.

Let's get drunk together.

I never really appreciated him  before.  How sad.

Edgar Allan Poe

A Dream Within a Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
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There’s something almost morbid about trying to catch a feeling.  You know that this feeling won’t last, so you try to capture it in words.  How cruel to unjustly hold something, maintain it’s life through the incapability of words.  I’m reminded of Futurama where the heads of the celebrities were kept in jars of formaldehyde.  What kind of an ( Read more... )

Hello!  It feels like I'm speaking from the opposite side of the world.  Wait... I AM speaking from the opposite side of the world.  Daaang ( Read more... )

I miss this journal.  Is that silly or strange ( Read more... )

Hey everyone!

I made it, here I am in Japan.  I've started a new livejournal to document these months abroad.  I might still post in this one - for those general rants that I don't want family to see...

My other name is konrad_abroad.  Please friend me!

Cheers and happy trails!

Going to a foreign country and not knowing the lingua franca can be a bit intimidating but I’m beginning to deal.  What’s the worse that could happen?  Besides me asking where the nearest temple is instead of the nearest bathroom… that one gets me every time.  Seriously, everyone who has been (and who hasn’t) to Japan says that it will be a ( Read more... )

I'm going to really miss my new friends at work.  The college bound are already leaving.  I will miss their smiling faces and sincere personalities ( Read more... )

Honestly, there isn't much new to report.  I bought some sports paraphenalia for my host family (and other misc. japanese people) - a bunch of t-shirts and a hat.  I'm still worried about packing.  I hate lugging around big suitcases of stuff.

My Japanese currency came.  It's big and pretty!  Like many others, I believe that American money is ' ( Read more... )