Well, work and its myriad of duties continues to trundle by me at alarming speed. I recently felt particularly vindicated when I was asked to record a bunch of dialogue readings at headquarters for various classes. It took my mother till nearly the end of high school to stop moaning about me taking drama...she didn`t foresee me as the voice of ( Read more... )

I know it's not worth posting over, but I get really, really peeved when people I've known for 2 years come over and call other friends saying "We're at JAY's. HE's in apartment 505. HE's coming out with us. JAY's place ( Read more... )

My Umeda class threw me and another teacher and student an early surprise birthday party after today's lesson. There was tea, a cake with my name on it, and presents with the sweetest note ever ( Read more... )

There is something inherently amazing about a vampire that owns a bar called Fangtasia serving synthetic blood in bottle form. I mean, I would go, wouldn't you ( Read more... )

Well, we finally got out of the eyesore that is Beijing and made our way to Shanghai. If you want to imagine Shanghai, just picture the city from Futurama and then deduct the flying cars. Every building is a skyscraper and every surface is reflective. It's the sort of drawing that people made in the 1950s showing what they thought the world ( Read more... )

The Forbidden City is rather impressive, mostly in the "who on earth decided that the colour of 1970s shag carpeting should be used to paint an entire city" sort of way. Upon entering you're thrust into a giant square. It's huge and big and there's a billion people, all who are ambling over to a building at the far end, maybe 500 meters away. ( Read more... )

China is a terrible place filled with mostly terrible people. I couldn't have been happier when my trip ended and the plane spit me back out into the well oiled machine that is Kansai International Airport. I'm sure someone with a mind with the politically correct switches flipped on is thinking that it's terribly mean of me to make sweeping ( Read more... )

I will post about China at some point but I've been too distracted by this breaking news ( Read more... )

I'd post this on facebook since I only have a minute, but the Chinese government has uh, decided that website doesn't exist. Neither does Postsecret (NOOOO!!!!).

For the record Sarah, your website is viewable from inside China!

This place is interesting. VERY interesting. More to follow when I return to Japan.

I have found a new love, even though it gave me an ear infection ( Read more... )