Ah yes, winter is coming. It gets down below 50 some nights, though not often yet, and there have been a few days where the high was in the low 60s. The wind is a rather constant thing now; it almost feels like I live in Chicago at times. Maybe not quite that bad, [...]

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Yay. Update. Classes started last week. Gettin’ back into the groove. Haven’t been slapped yet, verbally or otherwise.
Got my grades from last semester this morning. Nothing lower than a B, which is a complete surprise to me. I really can’t see how I did that considering that I bombed at least 3 of [...]

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Sorry for the brief interruption earlier today. The power failure in LA knocked the bandwidth providers for my host offline, and the generators for their own building seemed to not have worked as advertised. Whatever would the Interdictor think?

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So, yeah. Back home. Small aparment, cool weather and people I know. I really can’t say I’m disappointed. Though, honestly, after the trip I’ve just taken, it doesn’t really seem like I have much to talk about here.
I spent the last of my free time hanging out with friends and speaking poor Japanese. Didn’t [...]

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Now, back to our regularly scheduled program. Monday. Nara. City of… old stuff. And deer. Lots of deer. Really, it’s one of the oldest cities in Japan. The capital before it was moved to Kyoto, then later to Tokyo. I almost didn’t visit since there was still so much I wanted to see in [...]

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Sunday. Kobe. Concert. Aural bliss. I was gonna wake up early and explore Kobe. Heh. Yeah. I was still tired from my ferry trip, not to mention my walking all throughout Kyoto. So I slept in. Got up with enough time to grab some breakfast for the first time in forever, buy a ticket [...]

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Better late than never, eh? Got a little busy, this got put on the back burner. I was planning on having all of these done and posting them at once, but you get installments now.
So where were we? Ah, yes. Kyoto. City of temples. And other old things.
Headed off to Otaru on Wednesday [...]

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