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why japan is great
Yesterday we rented Donnie Darko together and as a promotion gig the clerk gave BOTH of us a beer. (technically a Lemon Chuhai Highball.)
On a bittersweet note: it appears a certain brilliant doctor of mathmatics will be leaving on sunday for an internship in tokyo. -
jokester
today getting on the bus to my new school a sharply dressed japanese guy comes up and asks if i am Mr. kevin. He is vaguely familiar and it turns out he was this really cool friendly elementary student teacher i met on one of my trips to the land of little little japanese students. He just got transfered to my new school as well. !! Didn't ( Read more... ) -
easy as it goes
Smooth day in Kyoto sight seeing with Linda. "Took in" the permanent collection at the municipal museum of art...some really great stuff. Lots of crappy modern art that seems to say "look at me, i'm weird, that means i am special and talented." It was a very small selection, but nice. Found a gigantic garden with wonderful ponds and cherry ( Read more... ) -
sore throats
Linda, aka Mom, aka future-mother-in-law, aka Mrs. Decker has arrived ( Read more... ) -
last day
sitting at my japanese place of employment on the morning of the end to it. everything is always shiny at the end of things isn't it? you get to become heartbreakingly myopic to all the positives. though today isn't exactly heartbreaking, but it is happy and fun ( Read more... ) -
so quick
ugh, all the damn cliche things you hear about death and dying and illness about loved ones are so damn ... almost true. I find myself whispering words into marv's sodden shoulder that are so damn overdone ( Read more... ) -
bad news and good people
I suppose it has begun to sink in. I am not crying uncontrollably ever hour or so today...thats an improvement. A decision to leave Japan together if a worse case scenario happens has been made. Two more days before the family knows any more specific prognosis ( Read more... ) -
wonder upon wonders
lymphoma of the brain, brain cancer, a tumor in the head. My dad has one. Found out this morning, the last in the family to know due to an older generations reticence to inform others of weakness and a glitch in email. He sounds good on the phone, a bit sleepless due to sterioids that have helped eliminate the initial symptoms of an inability to ( Read more... ) -
HOW MUCH??!!
Wanna know the typical cost of creating a person ( Read more... ) -
two strikes, one phone call
well now I feel really bad about it all