Slow well, all told. Didn’t get out much, mainly did the school work thing. I know, such an exciting life, isn’t it? Yosakoi is coming up soon, though. The… 13th, I want to say, but I could be off a few days. I don’t really anticipate doing much until then.
The weather here has taken a [...]

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An uneventful, if busy, weekend. Bar-b-que sauce is still impossible to find. As is fresh cilantro. Did I mention corn flour? It’s as if they’re making it as hard as possible for me to cook any food I might find familiar. Or doable. Japanese cuisine is still a mystery to me, for the most part. [...]

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Testing to see if I have this working. Also it has somehow become amazingly warm the past few days. Moreso than Tokyo and Hiroshima even.
edit: No, no it doesn’t appear to be. Anyone know of a better plug-in for Wordpress by any chance? ^^;

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So this weekend was Hanami. Much more low-key than last year, but everything this year has a different feel to it. Maybe the people are different, maybe it’s just the fact that the exchange students are all male this time, but there’s a much more independent than last year. Not nearly as much group activity. [...]

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Honestly I didn’t take a whole lot of pictures when I was in Tokyo. Aside from areas like Chukagai and, to an extent, Akiba, it really only differs from most Japanese cities in scale. More buildings, higher buildings, more people, etc. But here’s the best of what I took. As always, mouse over for my [...]

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So it appears that the moblogging thingie that I`m using doesn`t appreciate my new cellphone. Should be all fixed now, but it doesn`t bode well for the future. I`ll look into that at some point.
The phone itself is pretty nice, other than a few small annoyances. How the charset starts off in English instead of [...]

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I`m back, almost. Tired but it was a blast. More when I have access to a computer.

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