I realize I have a habit of disappearing off the face of the earth, but uh... a year without posting here is bad, even for me.  Really, though, not all that much interesting has happened over here.  I was in Europe for a month during the summer (seven countries, eleven cities, lots of walking) and then a week-long cruise (three countries and the ( Read more... )

Once again I am way behind on the LJ thing. I will probably never get through all my unread friends' entries ( Read more... )

Minute Maid lemonade comes in cans, the shape exactly identical to a Coke can. Despite the fact that I know it is lemonade, and the fact that it says "shake well" across the top, it still feels horribly wrong to sit and shake it. Every instinct screams "DON'T DO THAT!!! IT'LL EXPLODE!" I find this rather odd ( Read more... )

I despise sinus infections. It's the kind of thing where you aren't sick enough to feel like you have a good excuse to skip class and stay in bed, but you feel yicky enough to want to do nothing else but curl up and sleep. And it really doesn't help when your medicine induces drowsiness. Urg ( Read more... )

I thought leaving Japan meant getting away from stupid, annoyingly frequent natural disasters. But nooo, I return to Mississippi so I can get bashed in the head with a freaking category-5 hurricane. Thanks a lot.

I made it home.

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I think I might take Yaju's suggestion and just cut my leg off and get it replaced with auto-mail.

I went to Kawagoe yesterday, which is a tiny part of Tokyo still known as "Little Edo." It was pretty neat, although being out in the rain all day walking on my bad foot was not so fun. We visited the birthplace of the the third Tokugawa shogun, a pretty awesome temple, a castle, lots of museums, and another temple that rather looked like an ( Read more... )

( Tin's Kanji Rant )

I don't write in this thing often enough to have it ( Read more... )