Sitting on an airplane right now, sweaty and uncomfortable, while we wait for some kind of weather to clear in Hokkaido. Why they loaded us onto the plane, then forced us to sit here for two hours, instead of letting us stay inside the airport, I'm not sure. I guess they perpetually think they are on the verge of take-off, but they aren't, and ( Read more... )

Well, the Go convention in Hokkaido that I was only supposed to go to on Saturday had some cancellations because of Some Dreaded Flu, and the Ki-in is rushing me up there early and begging me to stay longer than originally planned ( Read more... )

I'm at the library at the college where my Korean class is usually held. I say usually because the teacher called in sick with some horrible flu. I guess it doesn't just strike Go players. The replacement teacher didn't have a full lesson plan, and we just did directed conversation for an hour and then she let us go. I stopped in here to try to get ( Read more... )

Well, Ko is gone. In the end we didn't leave the house until evening on the day he was here, and so I just took him around by train to see the neighborhoods where the most listings were, so he would know what he wanted to look at when he comes back ( Read more... )

My heart feels like it's going to burst.

If Shindou dies, I'll seriously contemplate suicide myself.

I'm daring you God, take us both.

This house is too fucking huge and empty but I'm afraid to go anywhere. What if someone calls here ( Read more... )

Shindou collapsed in Hiroshima ( Read more... )

Shindou collapsed in Hiroshima.

This has been an interesting day. If I may use "interesting" as a euphemism for "I broke down and cried in front of Waya Yoshitaka."

(And then he was nice to me. I guess I proved I'm human to him after all ( Read more... )

This is one of those things you write down hoping they aren't true ( Read more... )