So, I recently found on Youtube the 1997 Disney made-for-tv production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. What I found interesting about it was the casting: Brandy is Cinderella, Whitney Huston is the Fairy Godmother, Whoopi Goldberg is the queen, Jason Alexander is the Prince's right hand man, Bernadette Peters is the stepmother, and Paolo ( Read more... )

In any case, yesterday I finished the JDrama "Unfair," featuring the ever-adorable Eita in a great psychological thriller about a female cop (not Eita) who is trying to solve a series of serial killings ( Read more... )

Went out. Taught a class. Attacked by fever again. Double plus ungood. :( This one is a full degree higher than yesterdays. I woke up feeling so much better, too. :(

I had a fever yesterday and felt all-around miserable, but I feel so much better today. It helps that I got a lot of sleep, and the weather is 60 today instead of 47. They told me yesterday that that was December weather. This year has been so weird weather-wise for Japan ( Read more... )

I caught a cold. It's 47 degrees today. My apartment has no ventilated heating. My room's A/C doubles as a heater. Thank God. It supposedly gets a lot colder around these parts. I may freeze to death this winter. They say it gets so cold in this building that the toilet water will freeze ( Read more... )

My body is pulling that "I'm about to get sick" feeling. I'm going to go to bed early tonight. Also, if you live by yourself and don't have friend to readily hang out with, don't look at "Forever Alone" memes. They make it worse. :(

Even if they are kind of funny...


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So... on Sunday I discovered Florence + the Machine. My life may have been changed ( Read more... )

So... yesterday I performed four songs I've written for our church's Coffee Hour event.

And I feel like a total failure for no apparent reason. I think it's because nobody really said they liked the songs. I feel like they totally suck.

There was an earthquake in the middle of one of my songs. I didn't even stop.

私は日本語を大好きです！

There are no words for how much I love studying Japanese. Some days I don't study, because for whatever reason I forget that I love it and decide that I want to waste my time with something far lesser. But I love it so much.

Interesting Japanese tidbit:

The word for "police," keisatsu, is made of the kanji for "command/admonish" (敬) and　 "surmise/presume/understand" (察).