Yesterday I was eating pickled cabbage that Hitomi’s grandmother made for me (I love her tsukemono!) and about halfway through, I saw a weird dark shape. I suddenly had a bad feeling and picked it up to examine it in my chopsticks. It turned out my fears were correct — it was a big, fat, [...]
I was just about to write a post about November the other day, and today it’s already December! Wow, time flies! (In Japanese, 光陰矢のごとし, kou-in ya no gotoshi, like an arrow.) So what’s been keeping me busy these days? Quite a lot.
First and foremost would be work. It seems like every month gets busier and [...]
For the past two nights, there have been lightning strikes over my house, periodic downpours, and fog as thick as pea soup… and this morning I woke up to a hours-long hail storm and snow thunder (high up in the sky with a reverb that sounds like it can be heard across the entire planet). [...]
OBAMA IS BEAUTIFUL WORLD!/エニワン・ブラザース・バンド
I’m sure you’ve heard of Obama city, Japan in the news lately. It’s a small hamlet near where I live that has recently become quite famous. They revamped their town after Obama launched his candidacy, making Obama t-shirts and chopsticks and weird papier mache statues they prop up all over the town, [...]
I’ve been working a bit lately on my website, as you can tell by the new theme. I really need to start planning for the future if I’m going to try to move into doing art professionally next year — and a major part of that is having a professional website that’s more than a [...]
I think I forgot to mention before that those super famous eyeglasses Ms. Palin wears that apparantly everyone is buying up like crackerjacks are manufactured right here in Fukui. In fact, I teach a company lesson at one of the major eyeglass manufacturers in Sabae city — perhaps the very one that supplies Palin and [...]
My throat really hurts… I still have pain killers but I don’t have any more super syrup. The healing of the scars and scabs was surprisingly just as painful as the actual surgery… and lasts like 10 times as long.
I guess I’m healthy enough to go to work and all… I can talk and I [...]