South for silver week
It’s Saturday, and the beginning of a five day weekend. Yes. five. As I leave Japan in three weeks (!) things like goodbyes are starting to appear. Whether it’s a friend or a favored food place, I’ve started to gauge the likelihood of another encounter before I go. Today’s trip finds me headed to kansai […]
Dilemnma, and other weirdnesses
While typing an email this week, I noticed that the auto spellcheck in Firefox highlighted “dilemna” as erroneous for me. It is possible I was a spelling nerd, and even now find personal lapses and typos particularly irksome. Lapses, say, of the sort that happen when I see there/their and its’/it’s/its. Or dilemma. Lazy spelling, […]
The Diet
It’s not what you think. As if I’d go on a diet with only a month to go here? Hah. Bring on the fried chicken/pork/shrimp/veggies. Yum. No no, this diet is one I learned about at dinner with some coworkers yesterday. This is the “misery loves company” diet. Best described as…hm…”make everyone around me fatter […]