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Surreality x 3
Surreality 1: MJ & I met with a would-be actress who was representing a production company. She took us to a temple to meet with the producer. We sat in the middle of a gorgeous tatami room surrounded by worshippers chanting. The producer didn’t appear. We booked out of there before we could be initiated
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Hosting a FOAF
There’s a stranger sleeping on my living room floor. Mike Lee went the same school as one of our friends. He was passing through Tokyo and needed a place to stay. Our living room seemed the logical choice. It’s good to meet and host people you don’t know but who have some sort of connection
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Delayed daytrip
For several months, I’ve been hoping to get out of town to take a walk in the woods. On Friday night, Tod asked me to pick a good trip from our Day Walks Near Tokyo book. I was delighted. We’d go on Sunday. But yesterday morning the edge of a typhoon tormented us with rain,
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London hours
Tod has been “working London hours” for the past week. Because he needs to communicate with his colleagues in London, he stays up late working at home til 2 or 3 am, then gets up at 10, works a little more from home and heads into the office at about noon or 1 pm. He
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4 years in Japan
Today is the first day of our 5th year in Japan. In other words, we celebrated our 4th Japan anniversary yesterday. We had dinner at a posh restaurant with a view and I dressed up because it was a good excuse. Dressing up is fun and far too infrequent. I suppose if I were always
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Zoupi
Yesterday’s fun all involved Zoupi. (You can meet him at Zousan.com) After completing his photoshoot for “Where’s Zoupi?”, he packed up and headed off to Belgium where he’ll be vacationing and enjoying a homestay in Heverlee. How is it that Zoupi gets a holiday but I don’t? I’m not sure, but at least his airfare
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Rant on housing
//rant on// The Japanese real estate system is exceedingly frustrating. With Tod soon unemployed, we’ll need to change our housing lease. Currently it is in the company name; now it will need to be in our name. That shouldn’t be such a big deal since we have ample funds to cover the rent through the
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Move or quit?
If presented with a dilemma–follow your job to Singapore or become unemployed in Japan–what would you choose? We’ve decided on unemployment. In about 30 days, the door closes on the current chapter of Tod’s wage earning. It’s a little bit scary, but it presents a million possibilities for new directions and challenges so it’s exciting,
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Late Night Delinquency
Middle of the Night Delinquency “I am seriously wigged out,” Tod wrote to a friend on IRC at 3:20 this morning.”Kristen and her friend MJ went out to the convenience store about an hour and 20 minutes ago (it is a 5 minute walk) and they are not back yet. There is no sign of
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WC ticket, 1
My lucky husband got a ticket to tomorrow’s US-Germany World Cup game in Ulsan, Korea. What a great chance! He’s got a full day ahead of him with two flights, a reservation for a seat at a pub to watch the afternoon’s game (England-Brazil) being played in Japan, then a taxi to the stadium for
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