just a quick note, got a camera in Shinjuku Yodobashi Camera (go figure) this Saturday. So pics are on the way. Guess how much it cost? About 2500 yen. That's cuz I already had about 27000 yen on my points card from buying my comp, more than I realized. Awesome! Practically a free camera. Groovy, ne?

In all seriousness, I sometimes wonder if anyone has stranger dreams than I ( Read more... )

はい、かおりちゃんはぼくのかのじょです。せんしゅうはおもしろいでしたよ。Also she figured out how to change my keyboard back to Japanese, though I'm not sure who's going to be able to read the hiragana characters. Basically, Kaori-chan is officially my girlfriend. Oh, and I climbed Fuji, but they may have to amputate half my foot. I'll try to narrate from the beginning, but it's a ( Read more... )

the etymological meaning of whatever the proper term for "denouement" is in ballet must be something along the lines of "the excruciating after-effects of having ones eyes burned out with the images of fluffy bunnies." I could be wrong, but that would be my guess. The thing is, some of their acting really is truly magnificent. But Don Quixote III.2 ( Read more... )

So probably for the first time, I was called social. Actually, my manager called me "society," but her dictionary called me "sociable." I told her I was a very shy person, and she kept saying, "I don't believe you." It hadn't yet occurred to me how significant the alterations in my personality were when I prepared for this trip. I eventually ( Read more... )

in over five minutes. My brother sent me this. It really is quite hilarious, though many out there have probably already seen it.

http://bash.org/?top

So she came to the Salsa Nite, several hours early to hang with me. I made her dinner back at my place and we watched her favorite movie, "The Holiday." Isn't this a big social J-no? Wakannai. I'm confused, since when I suggested making her dinner instead of going to a restaurant, I assumed an answer of no. I had just gone shopping, and put ( Read more... )

...is that they can be happy for twenty minutes at a stretch. It's ridiculous. I remember my screenwriting textbook complaining about how a movie as good as "Butch Cassidy" could let us endure ten minutes of people riding around on bikes and enjoying themselves. Ballet is also extremely inefficient, which contributes. It takes so much prancing ( Read more... )

From Wikipedia:

"Sic is a Latin word, originally sicut meaning "thus", "so", or "just as that". In writing, it is placed within square brackets and usually italicized - [sic] - to indicate that an incorrect or unusual spelling, phrase, punctuation, and/or other preceding quoted material has been reproduced verbatim from the quoted original and is ( Read more... )

So the thing about typhoons is, they're wet. I mean, you really don't understand. As Chris said, "It doesn't feel like rain. It's too wet." It's rather more like being hit by a bucket of water. The water goes mostly sideways, occasionally up, but rarely straight down. Classes were canceled, and we spent much of the day hiding in Dotonburi, an ( Read more... )