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The sight that greeted me this Monday on my way to work... So winter still hasn't decided to release its icy death grip on the poor inhabitants of our prefecture, smack dab in the middle of what Japanese like to refer to as yukiguni - "snow country" - and glancing at the calendars to make sure our eyes weren't deceiving us, Tennis and I decided to go on vacation somewhere way, way down south,...
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Posted on: 03/27/2005 01:30 AM
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A "farewell" party for a retiring co-worker took up most of my friday night yesterday, leaving me rather tired and exhausted this morning (well, okay, maybe that had more to do with the little "after party" pub crawl I made, but that's neither here nor there). Fortunately, the brilliant sunshine pouring in through the cracks in my curtains and painting sharp polygons on futon proved rather inspiring - hopping out of bed (and by...
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Posted on: 03/19/2005 11:29 PM
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Things have been quite here for a while, which explains why the entries have been rather lame as of late. It being entrance exam week, all the students have been out of class, and the rest of the teachers are off scurrying in that pretend-busy-way that they do that helps reassure everyone that they're being productive - the poor ALTs on the other hand, have little to do but to sit on their bums and...
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Posted on: 03/11/2005 02:44 PM
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A panda spied at the local museum. The sign reads "Tea is available. 50 yen for a cup or 150 yen for a pet (plastic) bottle. Ask the staff if you're interested". Starbucks girl approves and heads off towards the direction of the tea counter. I passed, preferring to try and snap a furtive picture of the panda when no one was looking (photography was prohibited). A rather foreboding sunset greeted us as we...
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Posted on: 03/08/2005 09:42 PM
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Winter in the hood is dark and depressing - moreover the constant see-sawing between dry, harsh blowing winter winds and incessant torrential downpours is anything but nice to my hair. In a moment that made me seriously question my sexuality, I found myself looking up the Japanese phrase for "split ends" ("枝毛" - "edage" for those of you who care) the other day so I could go somewhere and have them trimmed - the big...
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Posted on: 03/03/2005 09:35 PM
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Seen at a train yard up north. Does one applaud this honesty or silently groan at the prospect of spending the next two hours standing shoulder-to-shoulder with smelly obaasans coming back from a weekend at the onsen resort? In other news... I currently have an opportunity to pick up a gently used Canon Powershot G2 for a pretty decent price. I'm deeply tempted, especially since this particular model has a manual shutter control of up...
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Posted on: 03/02/2005 10:02 PM
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