Shower musings: starting out asking-a-favor or customer service interactions by asking "Are you the right person to help me with X?" is smart ( Read more... )

Unpacked alllll the books. Two massive bookcases full :) Going through all of the books has me like "Cancel my next three years. I'm going to start at one end of this shelf and read my way to the other side" but give me a few weeks and I'll be back to ordering more books, like I have none waiting on me ^_ ( Read more... )

Combining the last two days :D
Day 5
After stopping in the same park for another egg and coffee breakfast, we went back to Harajuku and got yukatas (summer kimonos).  Souvenir must-buy ( Read more... )

Day 4
We started out with some breakfast -- more boiled eggs and canned coffee!


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Day 3

We had walked so much that Drew's shoes exploded, so we went back to Tokyu Hands and got Drew some fancy shoes. It was a different Tokyu Hands so of course we had to revisit every floor. Drew appreciated the full service shoe shopping! And there were even more cute things! And a weird face-mask simulator...


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Day 2 was Room Escapes! We escaped all 3...Spoilers ahead!

• Room 1, escaped in :55, wasn't sure we were gonna make it :) It was samurai themed, based at the end of the Edo period. As a gate that would open one of two final puzzles, we had to make a choice -- power or strength.  We chose power, which then revealed that we helped the assassin kill the ( Read more... )

I got to Tokyo and was immediately assaulted by massive amounts of cute. INSIDE the airport.


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"She said I was easy to love. People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving. It's like scoring the clay to make another piece of clay stick to it ( Read more... )

Holy crap, this book is awesome ( Read more... )

I don't know what a younger me found so appealing about Alain de Botton's work. I find him smarmy and pathetic now, like the way I've always found David Sedaris banal and tedious.  I should re-revisit.  It's a shame if I just really don't like anything of his any more ( Read more... )