it was inevitable that the invasion of iraq would eventually be termed "the war." i can bring up the war in conversation with lttle or no doubt that i will be misunderstood.

the war. my generation has its own war.

at starbucks you can hear exactly one-half of everything.

"hang up?...ok...yeah...right."

one-half of everything and the rest is world music compilations and coffee beans being drilled into oblivion.

i just got an e-mail from everyone's favorite fupa-rific kanji sensei, informing me that i got an eighty-eighty-point-nine percent on the kanji final. i don't have any opinions about this. i didn't study one bit for the test because i ceased to care about this class weeks ago. call it spending too much time in crappy classes during the summer ( Read more... )

i had two finals today--general japanese and composition. the sensei for composition is one of the most frightening people i've ever met. aging, short, wrinkled, unmarried, defined by excessive blue eyeshadow. mocked by all of her students and notorious for unteaching the japanese language. i kind of feel sorry for her, but at the same time she ( Read more... )

it feels like a lot has happened this past week, but my recollection of events is skewed by random holidays and too much alcohol. as though space has been injected into my memory like shitty bits of a vast nothingness, breaking up the neat progression into a kaleidescope of images ( Read more... )

Over the past week there has been a dramatic increase in massive flying insects bent on widescale human enslavement. They look something like this:


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I've been reading haiku lately for my literature class. I came across a poem that struck a chord:

かくれんぼ
三つかぞえて
冬となる

( translation )

This is what I have to look forward to:


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In honor of the United States' independence, I'm listening to The Stars and Stripes Forever as rendered by Matmos on their The Civil War-ADVANCE album. It is certainly the finest version of Sousa's march that I've heard, mainly because it comes within a centimeter of utter disintegration multiple times in the short time span of two minutes.