weird coming here tonight. i wonder if i'll come back here when i go to Japan for research in a few months. we'll see.

Kyle: But if we do that we'll be exposing our weirdness.

Christina: Yeah, but they'll think 'At least they found each other. It's the weird people who are lonely who are really sad.'

While I was in Matsuyama, I went to this club and guess who was there? ( DJ Aki the Monk! )

I'm leaving on an overnight bus for Osaka in 3 hours. Hiromi will be home from piano lessons any minute now. Then we'll cook ( Read more... )

After almost two weeks hanging out at Hiromi's house, I leave this afternoon for the Nametoko English Camp. I'd much prefer not to. Life at the Kanatani house is heaven. When I wake up in the morning, Hiromi has breakfast waiting for me on the kitchen counter: a bowl of salad and a piece of fluffy homemade toast. We chat about the plans for the day ( Read more... )

Over 250 LGBT activists and leaders, writers and artists, organizers ( Read more... )

I was trying to write but then I looked out the window and saw the dragonflies. They are hovering together in golden swarms over the rice paddies. I took Sora-kun for a walk through them and now I'm back, eating a greenhouse-grown Ehime tangerine ( Read more... )

After nine days in Kansai, I boarded the ferry for Ehime last night. I checked into a nitei shitsu with a 9 o'clock meal of sesame spinach, salmon rice ball and burdock root. Then, at 9:30, I took a bath. Halfway through washing my hair, the boat turned up on its side. The steamy water from the bath flowed over the edge, into the washing area. At ( Read more... )

I turned in my final paper of my first year in graduate school an hour ago. Since then I have been staring at the computer screen, completely baffled as to what to what I should do next.

An update for all you Japan-side. I will be arriving in Osaka on the Fourth of July. I'll be there for two months. When and where can we meet up?