I just checked; $1 = 91.5807 yen. Woo! I'm sure that won't last for long. But it's exciting after seeing it worth only 89.something for the past several weeks. I'm such a dork. I want it to go back up to at least 100 yen per dollar so I can travel there at a moderate cost. Alright I'm done wasting your time for now.

This may be the first thing I've really cared about in a while. I know not many people read this but those of you that do, please consider this very carefully ( Read more... )

here is an excerpt from this article about grammar nazis and spelling snobs."Last August, two self-proclaimed grammar vigilantes were charged with conspiracy to vandalize government property after they fixed punctuation errors on a historic hand-painted sign in Grand Canyon National Park. The pair was sentenced to a year’s probation, banned from ( Read more... )

I just read an interesting article about the Tsukiji sushi market. Don't lick the fish. Man, that's strange. You know, I didn't even concern myself with the auction when I went there. I went right for the restaurants. Literal melt in your mouth sushi. Inspires me to write an email to some of my Japanese friends I went there with ( Read more... )

Okay, I try not to go on my rightious rampage every time I go shopping for some undewear but I can't help it. ARGH! I'm not saying this to brag but I wear a size 5 when it comes to multi-pack underwear. And that's considered a small. I cannot find, because it is not there, a muti-pack of bikini style in all white or at lease black and white. So I ( Read more... )

The other day I watched I am Ledgend with Robert and it turns out the version I saw while I was in Japan had the alternate ending. We watched the original movie "Omega Man" and the guy dies at the end and I said something like "Well that sucks ( Read more... )

The other day Robert went to take out the trash and found a 27" TV in there. We salvaged it and hooked it up to see if it stil works. It does but it makes the constant humming sound. It's loud enough that's it's kind of annoying and may not be worth keeping. Oh, well. But it was a cool find ( Read more... )

I spilled milk on my keyboard earlier and sopped it up as quickly as I could. But my computer started going nuts on me. I would press the delete button and it would type +*===*=*=*=*+* etc... So I switched to the USB keyboard. But there were still phantom fingers pressing keys and the touch pad started to act up too so I switched to a USB mouse as ( Read more... )

Here's my final exam schedule for next week ( Read more... )

Today was my orientation with IntoEdventures. I'm going to like working with them. It's just hte kind of thing I want to do. I'll be interviewing potential host families and matching them up with the right students. Then I check up on the student every month and make sure things are okay. The more students I have the more money I make, essentially ( Read more... )