Apparently my carnivorous friend Grace reads this too, bringing the audience to an astounding....4 - so I best get posting. Anyway that night....or SOME night - I can't keep track - we ended up in Shinjuku. Now trying to meet in Shinjuku is one of life's great adventures - so after slaying some griffins and the minotaur, and NO JOKE finding a ( Read more... )

Things are winding down and my days here are numbered. Soon it will be back home to my non-existent job, expensive insurance, a city with substantial odds I'll be shot and fingernail-pullingly expensive food and gas. But at least I'll be with my friends ( Read more... )

Yey Japan. Jess and Amy to be here soon.

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Finals and whatnot. I don't anticipate having much to say seeing as not much is going on. But here are some random pictures from the week. Behold - Shibuya madness:


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Nothing special to report this week. No crazy adventures to regale you with. Although next week Jess and Amy finally arrive! Just in time for......finals. Yey! (screwed) YEY! Too bad though - Cherry Blossoms are gone (on a related note Jess informs me that I'm a killjoy). But since its the run up to finals everyone is getting serious and ( Read more... )

So this Friday - finally a proper Hanami (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanami) Cherry blossom viewing (which is to say I took the subway there, spent 30 minutes, then went to class. There are only a few days left of cherry blossoms. Sorry guys, despite my cartoonishly villainous ( Read more... )

Dollar is back up to 103 yen. (Sigh of relief)

....and now for Sunday. The coup de gras. The entry that ensures that when I go home, Johnny will kill me. Saturday I got late word of a little something called the "Tokyo Anime Fair". YEAH. So off to Odiaba - to the ridiculously interesting Tokyo Big Sky convention center:


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So weather.com informed me Saturday would nice and sunny - great for the cherry blossom viewing. So off to Ueno park (supposedly one of the best sites). Although - in retrospect "sunny" was a tad optimistic:


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BUT - this is a special time of year in Japan. The Cherry blossoms are starting to bloom - they turn white, then pink, then fall. I live next to Yoyogi park, so I went to take a little in before class. Now I was expecting a forest of falling leaves worthy of a sword battle to the death over matters of honor - but no - it was humid, overcast, and ( Read more... )