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Close to my heart, not on my calendar
In an online chat with a friend this morning, I realised that with the exception of Tod, my closest friends rank among the people I see the least often. I connect with online acquaintances daily, my teachers weekly, hoopers monthly, my true friends as whim and winds dictate, and family not even annually. A few dear…
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Rate Hike & Possible Reductions
Electricity in Tokyo got more expensive starting this month. TEPCO requested, and the government approved, an increase in rates of 8.46% for residential consumers effective September 1. “We deeply apologize to our customers for the heavy burden,” they wrote in their communique. Rates are charged in blocks – the first 120kWh is now 18.89 yen/kW;…
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…And in Hooping News
Today is my 4th “hoopiversary” and I have some exciting news to share. I’m joining Spark! Circus for two months in 2013. I’ll be entertaining children and adults in refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border in January and February. The team performers is illustrious and amazing; I’m equally thrilled and terrified to have been selected. It’s going to be…
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Two Weeks in July
While Tod was in Singapore, I took a self portrait at a highlight moment of each day.
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Anxieties
Tod’s away and I seem to be alternating between crazy thoughts and productive actions. Today I combined the two to create some sketches of the crazy thoughts, personified. This ratty goblin plagues me at night if I leave the closet open. He bites, gives me nightmares, and settles bad fashion sense on me while I…
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Shape of Today
My day was spent traversing the city in a most inefficient but still sort of wonderful way. I had a ukulele lesson (1), collected my forgotten camera and Colleen’s ipod from Roon Roon (2), returned Colleen’s ipod to her (3), and ran some errands (4). Look at the pretty shape I made as I moved myself around town.
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Summer 2012 Conservation Tips
Setsuden – power conservation season – begins on Monday. This summer there will be no nuclear power generated at all, which means 11.8 gigawatts less to use. It’s made up for in part by coal (an unclean nightmare) and small increase in renewable sources, but the upshot is we have a little less power this…
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Generations Past
The Hills. (l-r) Roy, Elvis, Lucian, H. B., Bettie, Eupha, and Omer Dean + two memento mori & a dog. This is my great-great grandfather, Henry Berton HIll, my great-great grandmother, Bettie, and five of their eight children. I’ve seen their names in the historical records, but never any photos until today. My great-grandfather, Bert…
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Solstice Breakfast Guest
It’s been way too long since a friend’s called us after missing the last train home – just about everyone’s got kids now and they are far too responsible to be out drinking late into the evening. So what a delight to hear from UltraBob last night. Yay! Midnight greetings and digging into the stash…
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Making Music, part 2
Rob checks levels as Jesse strums my ukulele and Swinky vocalises in my bedroom. Months have elapsed in the quest to make a song for the World Hoop Day Dance project. Shortly after writing the previous post in mid-March, I gave up on the lyrics and turned to the music. Huw and I created…
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