October 9, 2008 (or somewhere nearby)
as i’m strolling down the ramp from my station toward my apartment building i become aware of a shadow very close behind…the all of a sudden there’s a little touch on my left calf! so i swing around and this guy is trotting away in the other direction. so i’m just staring dumbfounded and he glances quickly back before descending down the stairs. at that point i look at my calf and there is a small, dark circle (like a wet spot) on my tights where i felt the touch. (more…)
we’ve all seen the lists – here’s my breakthrough: i’ve made the 25min commute to work via my shiny red “mama chari” with a basket on front in a skirt. i have arrived.
then again – i suppose this could mean i’ve been somewhere in Europe or China too long also. can’t remember seeing it in the USA much though. oh for the day when America starts planning cities/towns where you can commute another way than car…
how i love my j-town for this!
1st day of medication – pop it in your…#$@%! drop it under the fridge. fish it out, rinse it off and in the mouth it goes….ah ah….choo! you sneeze it across the room.
a sign?
Lined up like the single string of pearls around our necks; the row of beads circling our hands. All black. Following the leader and the rules – bow, pray, pinch, hold, burn, bow. Did I forget anything? (more…)
If you have been busy, sick, away or any combination of the 3 – do not try to recontact your friends who you haven’t seen much of lately and tell them “you miss them”. You’re asking for trouble. Why? Read on…
This weekend I became aware that the characteristics I thought made up the kind of person I did want to be were actually those of the person I didn’t want to be! D’oh! (more…)
how it occurred to me at 8pm last night that my japanese license expired today is beyond me but thank god i did – the odds of me having the luck i had previously to pass the driving test the first try are slim. (more…)
nightly action. highlights: (more…)
in the news today…the vancouver pig farm serial killer is convicted on 6 counts of 2nd degree murder. he is suspected in the deaths of 27 women from vancouver’s troubled east side. when i tried to find information online about this neighborhood, nothing seems to have changed much recently except for the gentrification that is taking place in preparation for the 2010 olympics. i wondered if women are still disappearing. (more…)
what the hell!?! yes, while innocently searching for a book on hiking in japan, i’m subjected to this: someone actually published a book titled: “ORDINARY ENGLISH-SPEAKING MEN, EXTRAORDINARY BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, TEACHING ENGLISH IN JAPAN”.
as if the title wasn’t enough, with chapters like “mini-mini skirts” and excerpts such as “I haven’t met many Western females that speak fluent Japanese” it’s no wonder many western women have a cynical outlook of some western guys in japan. how can they expect us to take them seriously when there’s crap like this published (and to think some might read it)!?! bluck. i feel for those who didn’t come to japan to date and have a japanese girlfriend or wife – must be even more difficult for you than it is for me to stomach nonsense like this.
partially inspired by betsy’s new fab blog and partly just because it was so bloody fantastic – i’m gonna tell you about my day:
firstly i should inform you that turning 33 for me marks the near end of my yakudoshi. this is the japanese tradition of bad luck years. being how age 32 turned out to be a bust i was quite relieved to realize that the 33 yakudoshi for women actually meant the 33rd year of life (age 32!). of course there are lesser bad luck years preceding and following but the worst of it should be over. thank you very much.
so just how fantastic was the start of this year of lesser evil? (more…)
despite my promises, i haven’t been so good at waiting this time -better, but i honestly don’t know how women don’t tell people. despite the looks when you don’t order a drink at the bar…how do you explain canceling plan after plan and just sleeping every moment you’re not working or eating? or that you have to find somewhere to curl up for 1/2 of your lunch break cause you are ready to pass out or vomit? or going to the toilet every 2 mins? i dunno but my hat’s off to all the women who do. (more…)
we all know and love it “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” but a friend and i were discussing it and wondering if it works both ways – what’s your opinion? (more…)
monday night – chilling at home – working away in my room, waiting for my face mask to dry, my husband practicing as background music. suddenly something he was singing/playing caught my attention. (more…)
I dreamt that I had a pain or a fall that affected my right shin. Somehow I went to the doctor and without even x-raying they amputated my leg below the knee and implanted a prosthetic leg. I remember it hurting really bad and being very difficult to stand crying and crying in the dream screaming – “why did I let them do that!?!”
The pain was still palpable when i opened my eyes.
i feel loved again – sorry for my lapse of that recognition. i am human etc. etc.
thanks for the email replies since i seemed to have disabled comments for those not registered at some point. still didn’t stop the spam from coming in though. (more…)
is anyone reading this bloody thing yet? i’ve started attaching it to the bottom of emails to people i actually want to read it. i would post it on myspace or something but i don’t really want everyone there reading it. (more…)
i had the pleasure of watching the National Geographic special on the 1995 Kobe earthquake Saturday night. that little rocker killed about 6,000 people right here where i’m living – i’ve been to the memorial sites, but seeing the footage on that program was just really disturbing…i probably won’t sleep naked until summer. it would be me buried in the rubble, pulled out in front of the cameras in my birthday suit. (more…)
one week later and i still don’t really know what’s going on. (more…)
i’m struggling somewhere between the depressive state of not having any energy or really wanting to do anything and pissed off with the fact that my doctor says i should be taking it really easy and not do much. it’s like you know, if i am pregnant – wonderful! i will be so overjoyed and happy and want to sing the joys to the world, but if i’m not – can i please get on with my life already? i don’t like this feeling like i can’t share anything with anyone cause i don’t know what is really to share at this point – grief, hope, joy, or loss? wtf!?!
