ok, i've had a lot of blah kinda posts. sorry, this is me, i'm kinda a downer in my head, when i'm feeling all posi, i'm usually too busy to write stuff ( Read more... )

i have to explain the last post ( Read more... )

this was one of my goals in coming here, some kind of understanding about this world, maybe some kind of understanding about myself... but aside from an interesting theory about why japanese women stop having sex with their husbands after they get married, i haven`t so much learned a bunch of new things. rather, i have confirmed a lot of what i ( Read more... )

today, waking up in a small bamboo forest, with trunks as large as my neck, the leaves are a paler green than the other trees and so these patches against a hill side, the multi colour takes me back to portland fall ( Read more... )

not surprising, i knew it was coming for a few days. but somehow, i thought it might only last a day. but here is it, drizzling on, it`s supposed to be worse tomorrow ( Read more... )

Today is wasted in Nagoya. I knew I couldn't get to Kyoto at any reasonable ( Read more... )

Today I helped a Japanese man fix his flat. At first he refused my help and ( Read more... )

stuck again ( Read more... )

How much can I portray of my self with the way I smile at my aunt in understood misunderstanding ( Read more... )

and so here i am, spending some time with my insecurities, letting them soak in thro my thick skin, and i'm finding, surprisingly, i'm am so much better off then i was the last time i was in japan. i used to just idealize this culture. the beautiful woman with their ostentation fashion sense. their excellent iced coffee in convenient vending ( Read more... )