May 2012
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April 2012
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what I've been doing
shit happened
staying in Tokyo prolly for another year
possibly moving in with Koji??? this summer
お花見
doing SCIENCE!! at work with the students
preemptive nostalgia
my mom sent me Easter candy and I ate it
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March 2012
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some things that have been going on while I have been too lazy to post
one year anniversary of the big earthquake.
White Day.
we had a science exhibition! it was hectic trying to help all of the students prepare everything on time, but I think they did great! my first graders carried out independent research on natural resources and presented their findings in a variety of formats.
first...
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hi there blog. I haven’t forgotten about you.
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おかえり
drkotobuki:
transpacifique:
so Koji’s getting in at like 5am on Friday. he’s staying at my place, but I’ve got work all day and I can’t miss any more ‘cause I’ve had so many sick days.
bummer.
w/e, we’ll figure it out. I’ve gotta clean all the things before he gets here, and probably also buy groceries ‘cause most people eat things other’n toast and ramen.
#KOJI #KOJI #KOJI LOOK I AM...
February 2012
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“BE RESOLVED AND THE THING IS DONE.”
– Chinese proverb (on the page-a-day calendar at work)
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so Koji’s getting in at like 5am on Friday. he’s staying at my place, but I’ve got work all day and I can’t miss any more ‘cause I’ve had so many sick days.
bummer.
w/e, we’ll figure it out. I’ve gotta clean all the things before he gets here, and probably also buy groceries ‘cause most people eat things other’n toast and ramen.
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haven’t posted much. haven’t been doing much.
it rained all day on Saturday so I stayed in. no excuse for staying in on Sunday, too; just didn’t feel like going out.
oh, well.
going home this summer.
my last day of work is 22 June.
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jerkbrain
oh yeah, that depression thing.
started crying at work because one of my best students asked me to take a picture of the cool thing he made with blocks. missed Monday because I couldn’t get out of bed.
managed to get into work today but I don’t think I was at 100%.
trying to figure out how to get hormonal birth control because my bad days are usually followed closely behind by my...
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and it’s hard to dance with a devil on your back...
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what’s a wolf without a pack?
broke down...
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sleep is for the weak
slept about a total of four and a half hours last night. one, one and a half until Cyrus txted me and then about three after that.
despite this, had a very enjoyable afternoon shopping in Shinjuku with Erin.
we had takoyaki, taiyaki and tea for lunch. it was delicious.
bought a gorgeous artbook by Yoshimi Ohtani.
went home the long way ‘round on the Yamanote-sen (it’s a big...
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“‘I should like to be alone;’
to which the visitor replies
‘I...”
– Marianne Moore
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I’ll write you a postcard I’ll send...
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in an aeroplane over a place you finally left...
don’t usually do this, but I’m gonna xpost an entry from my Muggle journal.
I was feeling kinda blue after school for some reason, so I decided to walk home from my transfer station, Naka-okachimachi/Ueno-okachimachi. So I walked through Okachimachi and Ameyayokocho, and then Ueno Park. I took a different route through the park than I usually do, so I could see some different...
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accidentally Akihabara
the weather was very nice this weekend (tho it’s supposed to rain all week :<) so Anna, Erin & I decided to go out for the day. our original plan was to see the peonies (not chrysanthemums; jfc, self, learn your flowers) and then go to the shrines for the Seven Gods of Good Fortune.
instead, we walked to Akihabara from Ueno (it’s not far at all) and spent the day there. we got...
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January 2012
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stranded and free this is not like home (x2) you...
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日比谷／有楽町
today on my way to 豊洲ららぽーと, I had to transfer at Hibiya Station. as I was running between the Hibiya Line (where I live) and the Yurakucho Line (where Toyosu Station is), I realized it looked very familiar for some reason.
then I remembered eating a donut there with my mom when she visited in February 2010. seems like an awful long time ago.
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walking home from work
it was still lightish out when I left from work today, so I ended up walking home.
figured I’d walk to Morishita-eki (the next station down from Kiyosumishirakawa, where I work), and then once I got to Morishita, I thought I might as well go to Ryogoku. then at Ryogoku, I was enjoying myself and I decided to go to Kuramae. by Kuramae, it was a straight line past Shin-Okachimachi to...
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the ladies
never posted about this last week ‘cause I got home late that day and then somehow… never got around to it, oops.
so I went to dinner at Katrina’s house with the ladies. we made nabe. it was fun to hang out with my coworkers outside of, well, work and the food was delicious.
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meh.
been lazy about posting here. then again, I haven’t been up to much.
nothing really going on.
it’s fucking cold outside and there’s no central heating anywhere so I’m always chilly. it’s not helping me feel better.
still not sure what I wanna do with my life but pretty sure I’m gonna move to Iowa City. trying not to agonize too much about this decision until...
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Zielschmerz
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency.