This journal is now (almost) entirely Friends-Only.

To be added, comment on this post. I love new friends, I do, but please introduce yourself!

So, I'm 27. Fuck.

For those who don't know, the start of May in Japan is known as Golden Week, and we get 5 days off (woot!)

I spent mine in Tokyo/Yokohama with some of the people who've moved from Iwate-ken of late. This resluted in a sadly shit night out in Shibuya - perhaps all the usual club-goers had deserted the city for those days? - but an interesting purchase in a local sex shop. *grin*

I've still not managed to make it to Akihabara, which is the electronics/manga/kinky sex mecca of Japan. It's still on the to-do list.

I did get to see some pretty shrines etc in Kamakura. I confess to being a little shrine-weary only a couple of months ago, but now that all the gardens are flowering it's back to being a different experience as opposed to, "Yeah, and? It's a shrine."

Looking forward to summer!

Sayonara.

Just... watch it.



( My favourite part )

At the のみかい
Sensei: He can't get it up.
Me: I beg your pardon?
Sensei: His car won't go up the mountain. He can't get it up.
Me: ...
Sensei: Keira-san, are you all right?
(No, because I am five)

From worksheets -

I think English is useful because I can talk to foreign woman on the internets.

Let's meet at three o'cock.

Excerpts from my 2nd years' essays about their school trip to Kansai:


The building is girdled by the lake.

I fell into a scrambled egg in the morning.

I make use of this experience I continue to alive.

I took pictures unconsciously there.

And my personal favourite: For grope training we went to Eigamura.


I get very upset when the students manage to cock up the sentences I put four sodding examples of on the sheet they are writing on, but remind myself that I have no idea how bad my French/Latin exam papers really were. On the other hand I doubt anyone ever had to mark 300+ of them in a day. My brain hurts so much.

That said, my spirits can always be revived by looking at this utter genius bit of a listening exercise from my textbook which I must share with you:

Sue asks Dave if she can use his computer.
He says she can ____________ his ___________________.

o_O

Sayonara from -
Your Japanese correspondent who is, as ever, not making this up.

Robert, you shouldn't have posted about Twilight. Because it reduces me to ravening feminist rage. Below the cut find spoilers and fury.

( You have been warned )

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot

"Well, you know how everyone has a conscience. And you know how everyone also has an inner child? What you do is, you imagine a gun and point it at the inner child's head, and then you say
to your conscience, 'Shut up, bitch, or the kid gets it!'

But... whyyyyyyyyyy?

http://timesonline.typepad.com/blockbuster_buzz/2008/02/akira-the-movie.html