...yes, it's true. the day started off well enough, i got up early in order to go to the immigration office to get my re-entry permit for when i go to korea. so, i slept for another hour after waking and figured that i should take the train rather than my bike for fear of the office becoming extremely busy. i got my permit without too much hassle ( Read more... )

now i am waiting for my 'roomate' to wake up. she doesn't really live here, my real roomate is letting her friend stay here for 5 weeks, no rent. i didn't think it would be a problem. i was expecting her to buy a blender and some other household stuff, a fantastic deal when you consider what rent costs here. so, anyway, not only has she not ( Read more... )

so, it's been a couple weeks here since i updated..oops. so, now i will try to cram in as much a as i can here. my futon is a calling. it's a been an enjoyable couple weeks, sweltering 110% humidity aside. so, i think that it was right after the earthquake that the typhoon came. i was kind of looking forward to that, and although it did pour, the ( Read more... )

it's been an exciting couple of days. i'll start with today. so it was a regular saturday at work. i was tired and hoped that everyone man to man lesson would not show up. they all showed up. so, in my second last lesson in which i was drilling a 13 year old girl about the names and ages of her family members, the earth began to shake. we exchanged ( Read more... )

i am now relaxing with some dark chocolate as my dark blue nail polish sets on my toesies. i took me a nice lavender bath after my explorative bike ride this evening. i'm so glad i bought a bike...that's what i was thinking throughout my approx 1.5 hour journey. instead of doing what has become my regular exercise cuircuit around the fake lake in ( Read more... )

so, since my major migrain day i have have had another medically mysterious experience...there were tow showers this past week where i lost a considerable amount of hair. ya, handfuls, and it was really orangey too....so, i have spent quite a bit of time freaking out about that. could it be the japanese shampoo, the highly chlorinated water, my ( Read more... )

thats right, i spent the magority of it in bed with a migrain. it sucked. i had no one to take care of me. i didn't eat all day. yet managed to puke up the aleve and water i had...ok, sorry people. not what you want to read about, especially since it's been a while since my last post. why have a i left it so long? well, i seem to be having an ( Read more... )

the fun times continue here in nihon. yesterday was interesting. i will try to recount it accurately and articulately for your reading pleasur...but excuse me, i am chatting and listening to music over here. so, i started the day by going for a swim at the community pool. it is so damn hot here that i was dripping sweat by the time i made the 15 ( Read more... )

hi everybody!
i just wanted to wish you all a happy fun pride. i'm a little sad about missing it. i can feel the excitement coming to a climax without me...but hey, i'm far away and having fun...so you all take care and don't go too crazy.
-j

i have to assume that we are now in the rainy season. even though it was raining a whole lot a few weeks, apparently it wasn't yet the rainy season since the calendar didn't say so. yup, in japan, they really like to go by the books on these things. no t-shirts until it is officially summer even if you're sweating your ass off..hmm, anyhoo, it's ( Read more... )