About ten years ago I posted about my encounter with a tanuki. Last night, biking home from work on the Cherry Creek Trail, I saw a grey fox for the second night in a row. There are numerous bunnies around so I suppose a predator shouldn't take me by surprise but it did. It felt like magic ( Read more... )

Wednesday night on the way home I was singing Jingle Bells. This is not a Christmas carol as some may believe, it is a snow song. There is not one mention of Christmas and so I felt it was an appropriate song for a snowy April evening when everything looked just like it ought to have looked at Christmas but it was actually well past Easter ( Read more... )

I have a friend who is just now studying in Japan and I gave her the link to this journal to let her see my take on my time in Japan (not as a student however, that predates LJ). I thought I should look and see if there were any useful insights about my life in Japan back when I was living in said country and so I started with my earliest entries ( Read more... )

I miss the balconies that every place I lived in Japan had. I miss airing out my bedding and drying my clothes outside and just having this little space in the outdoors that was mine. I never had enough space for a chair or anything like that but I miss just standing out on my balcony. From my balcony at my host family's in Hirakata I could see ( Read more... )

I, as you may recall, got rid of a lot of Japanese pop culture goods last year. It was disorienting going through everything ( Read more... )

I am selling a vast quantity of goods I brought back from Japan. I have promised myself by the end of April they will be out of my home even if I have to give away some items. Now I'm not posting about this here as an advertisement but rather because I don't want my few and patient readers to think I don't love Japan any longer if they stumble ( Read more... )

Recently I checked my messages on my house voice-mail only to find that I had not done so in about a month. I also realized from one of the messages how odd it sounded that I hadn't changed my voice-mail greeting since I first recorded it ( Read more... )

July 19, 2004 I wrote, "Of course when I think of a future that involves living in America, even with the "the man of my dreams," and not going to Dear Loving/Sclatch/Plastic/KING concerts and Off-Houses searching for an elusive Hysteric Glamour shirt that doesn't offend my delicate sensibilities... I want to cry ( Read more... )

This was because it spoke of wanting to get married and I am now in fact married. Yes to the same man I have spoken about in my very sporadic entries. I apologize for never writing on here in the entirety of 2010. I hate to say I use LJ mostly to aggregate comics and read friend's updates. I am still writing but I'm also playing around with ( Read more... )

Last week I left the apartment and rushed to the bus stop only to find the rain had turned to snow and without much thought I grabbed my cell phone and called my fiancée and told him that it was snowing ( Read more... )