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Un-procrastinating
I’ve been on a personal crusade to take care of things that I’ve been putting off. I’ll bet you have some of these pesky tasks on your mental “To Do” list. So far, I’ve managed to accomplish several things: visiting the gynecologist and mailing Seth’s VCR to Vancouver count among the prominent items crossed off…
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Early summer fashion report.
Early summer fashion report. Gleaned from the streets of Omotesando The ethnic look: peasant blouses and long pairie/gypsy skirts. Next year, I expect to see a revival of “bistro print” skirts (the sort with French-looking bottles of wine and luggage labels). Why? Because that’s how it went in the 80s. Stripes: clean, crisp cotton (or…
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DE-J meeting
I’m not sure what we were thinking, but it is not a good plan to have a meeting in a British restaurant on the opening night of the World Cup. The DigitalEve Japan steering commitee got together last night at Pizza Express, a British pizza chain, in Harajuku. We arrived at seven and had the…
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Slogging blogging
What’s happened to my schedule? It’s a quarter to 4 in the afternoon and I’m just now realising I didn’t blog this morning. Maybe all the computer troubles around me are throwing me off kilter. Yesterday’s chicken-waving session with MJ didn’t yield any useful results and today I’m in my office fighting with Premiere 6.…
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My head hurts
Today I’m going to complain about the symptoms of migraine, since that’s pretty much all I can focus on this morning. I am nauseated, everything sounds too loud, and light is much brighter than it ought to be. On top of that, I feel stupid and slow. Don’t ask me to remember anything important, to…
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Stepped Down
Today I breathe a sigh of relief. Last night, I stepped down co-leader of DigitalEve Japan. I’m so proud of what the group has apccomplished during the last fifteen months. We’ve grown hugely from 90 members to almost 450. We hold events at least twice a month, publish a newsletter, manage a library of technical…
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Yoshi meets Shinzou
This is Yoshi. He’s a 22 year old musician who recently married my wild friend, MJ. He also spent yesterday afternoon building me a bookcase while she and I chatted and made dinner. What a great guy. Yoshi is balancing his wedding gift on his head. Aren’t they cute?
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Good god, time flies.
Good god, time flies. Is it really the first of May already? Seems like yesterday was oshogatsu. Lately start of every month has been creating a bit of a panic in me. What have I done with my time? Did I accomplish anything last month? What am I going to do this month? What are…
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All around the Yamanote
All around the Yamanote line, alert riders will notice old-fashioned metal signs advertising Nozaki’s Corned Beef. The ads look like they’ve been there a long, long time. Despite the ads, I’d never seen the product anywhere. I expected to find it near the packaged sliced hams and sausages in the grocery cooler, but it wasn’t…
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Karaoke
I have a shameful admission. I’ve just lost my karaoke cherry. I’ve lived in Japan for nearly four years and escaped the painful embarrassment of singing in a karaoke room until tonight. MJ & Yoshi, who are completely undeniable, suggested it at the end of dinner and we said yes. It turned out to be…
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