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Sometimes when I'm riding my bike around the narrow streets of Kyoto I find myself riding behind a fairly slow-moving older woman. Instead of getting mad at this minor inconvenience and speeding up to get around her, I just stick back for a while and follow until one of us makes a turn ( Read more... ) -
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I had an epiphany last night when my computer unexplainedly (why isn't that a word?) shut itself off twice -- first, just for a minute, but then for a long while. I thought it was completely dead. Dead for good. I left it and when to go hang out with some friends in the basement, but after our revelry was done I found myself asking what exactly ( Read more... ) -
Things Ashley wants to eat! :D
Being in Japan and having a limited amount of stuff-to-eat available to me is wracking havoc on me. Not in the "OMG I'M STARVING TO DEATH" way but more like "Damn, I could really go for a slice of cake" way. So here's what I want to eat!
-Cake!
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Past the point of no return.
Once again I find myself in a dark place, acting how I know to be the best for me, but still can't help but feel as though I've made a fool of myself ( Read more... ) -
A real entry! My gads!
So, right now I should actually be studying for a very-important-test, and doing homework, and studying Heian Era Japan, but I can't be bothered to just at this moment. Unfortunately, while I would normally be instead vegetating in front of the TV, the shows here suffer from a bit of Totally-In-Japanesitis, and with the exception of Badassia ( Read more... ) -
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Miss Susie had a steamboat,
Well that's cool! Steamboats are coming back in vogue.
The steamboat had a bell
They're awfully dangerous without one.
Miss Susie went to heaven,
Wait, she died?
The steamboat when to
...where? Where did it go?! Panama? Erie?
Hello operator,
Hiya!
Connect me number nine
Does anyone actually use an operator anymore?
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So, I've recently (or not so recently, really) realised that I was thinking about how living abroad in Japan is a lot different than living in America (or, as I was reckoning, living abroad almost anywhere else [minus Asia at large, I think]). I'm living on an island of familiarity within a sea of unknowns ( Read more... ) -
Foodles.
Deciding to eat food in a foreign country is an adventure unto itself. Sure, learning how to ride the bus from Point A to point B without getting lost at Point あ is a fun time, as is learning how to find the supermarket on your bicycle (and how to get back!). Part of the fun of eating foreign food in a foreign place, however, is that you don't ( Read more... )