Remember that meeting I told you about?

Well, that turned out to be a total waste of time.  BUT, we had another one on Wednesday morning.  We were told that the company had filed for bankruptcy and was being "sponsored" by the same company that picked up NOVA when they collapsed in 2007.

We had to go to a meeting in central Tokyo, where we sat in a ( Read more... )

See this:

http://community.livejournal.com/lomography/3412421.html.

Which reminds me of a moment of comedy I had yesterday with my student's motorcycle helmet and a bread knife from the 100yen shop:


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I'm super-stoked because I got a shout-out on Bruce Dickinson's Rock Show on BBC Radio 6 in the UK.

I emailed the show a few weeks ago just to communicate my disappointment at the show being cancelled by the Beeb.  And they emailed me yesterday to say I got a shout out.  I'm currently about an hour in, but so far nothing.  But we'll see...

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I'm still here... just super busy. 
The weather in Japan is freakish to say the least.  
I think between Sunday and Monday the temperature dropped about 10 degrees.
Tonight, it's so cold I wouldn't be surprised to find snow outside.
Another busy weekend ahead.
More on that another time.

Here, have a photo.


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Yesterday, my cat Hercules was put to sleep.  He was 18 years old.


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First, a little something on physical responses to emotions - something I seem to be particularly sensitive to.  After I split up with Gideon I spent the following days vomiting  up anything I ate, and dry-retching the rest of the time.  The poor guy even took a special trip to the chip shop to get me chips which I just pushed around a plate, ate a ( Read more... )

I handed in my notice today.  I now have four months to find a place to live and a way to make money.  I guess if things get really tight I can always work here:


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Now, the story in Part 1 may make one feel a tad “squicky” - (I’m taking that to be a merging of squirmy and icky), and one could well want to lament the poor state of dating form around at the moment.

This week I’ve heard a number of stories from friends and their recent encounters with “men”, veering from the pretty horrible, to the sad, to ( Read more... )

"I'm a lightweight; always have been. I didn't get properly drunk until I was 25, on a night out which culminated in a spectacular public vomiting in a Chinese restaurant. Ever wondered what the clatter of 60 pairs of chopsticks being simultaneously dropped in disgust might sound like? Don't ask me. I can't remember. I was too busy bitterly ( Read more... )

Last week's wedding party was plenty good fun, but I want to post about it another time.

This week there seems to be have been a lot of the subject of men and relationships coming up in conversation and in blogs.  When I came to Japan, I was nursing a very badly broken heart and so the idea of any man coming anywhere near me was not one I ( Read more... )