From the Thursday desk of Molly A. Belinski, the ( survey that )

South of the Border West of the Sun, by Haruki Murakami ( Read more... )

This April 1st I am not the fool! Today I gave the vending machine on the corner 120 yen, and in return 270 yen and a Royal Milk Tea dropped out of it.

If you wish to try your luck, maps will be available upon request.

I have to really think hard to think what I've been doing lately, but here's what I've come up with ( Read more... )

( tofu and eggplant recipes, for my convenience )

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Around here, the first three questions people like to ask me are

1. Where are you from?
2. How tall are you?
3. Do you have a boyfriend?

Today I was blown away when a little girl introduced herself and then asked if I like broccoli.

In other news, I found a heart shaped pinky mint today. (They've only ever been round for me before.)

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For the rest of March I have no more classes. With nothing else to do, it seems a good time to give something back to my co-workers. My personal goal for the month is to explain the subtle differences between "bored" and "boring" to every person who interrupts my reading/wall-staring to tell me "you look boring."

It's a good thing I'm awake anyway, or else I'd be really passive-aggressively annoyed at the screaming child next door.

If we knew how to take a good purikura, it wouldn't be as much fun.


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