My sister Sara and I decided to parody the vlogbrothers on YouTube and start our own BlogSisters account. We'll be pretty much daring each other and chatting to each other through videos only. It should be interesting.....

http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogsisters1

"The curry is pimped this time!" ~ David

I experienced a wide variety of prototypical "Japanese" things today that I decided to document, such as a giant kitten dancing to happy parapara music at THE most random "museum (???I don't know if it should be called that???)" that I've ever been to. The first floor was half rain forest filled with ( Read more... )

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  So yesterday I got all happy during class when everyone was reading aloud together. I don't remember what the sentence said because I was barely following along, but the verb at the end was something-o shiteimasu, and David next to me (who was also probably not paying attention) said, instead, o shitteimasu. Oh fascinating. Right. So it was such ( Read more... )

I decided today that living in Japan is like reading an Ayn Rand novel; it scoops out your brains, makes it so you're not sure how to think anymore. You have to eventually start piecing things back together, because Japan isn't the real world, at least not yours, so you can't hold onto everything you learned in it and still function. But you also ( Read more... )

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I think I just realized how much a part of me all of this is now ( Read more... )

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I'm learning more and more the difference between relationships of choice and relationships of convenience and how the proportion of each in my life (and everyone's lives) makes such a big difference in the level of contentedness/happiness I have in my life ( Read more... )

Because dousing yourself in poetry is a great way to come back to life.

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high-piled books, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never ( Read more... )

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you who are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will ( Read more... )