This week I took a week off from the internet and all the connections it gives me. I love the internet to no end – recently my life has become more and more internet based, which is both awesome and troublesome for my upcoming travels: awesome because I can maintain communication with a lot of [...]

I’m gonna use the blog again now that I’ve finally decided on a date for leaving Japan. I got a ticket for August 3rd!! It still goes through moments of feeling real and moments of feeling completely unreal, but it’s leaning more toward the real side these days. ^_^ I’ll leave out of Kansai airport [...]

I’m preparing a list of links to all the RTW travelers I can find who have posted their packing lists online. Hope this’ll help you – I’m SURE it’ll help me. ^_^/ Just the beginnings for now, so bear with me. If you know of any others, please tell me in the comments! * The [...]

I had a fascinating conversation with a student today. We somehow followed a rabbit trail to comparing the Romantics like Wordsworth’s image of childhood to the Puritan’s. The Puritans believed that children were naturally evil and that the evil must be beaten out of them as they grow up. The conversation then led to talking [...]

What is a YouTube tag game anyway?? I remember soon after I started out on YouTube, Hikosaemon was tagged by…I think it was Apokalypse34…for a music remix, and he made a pretty cool remix out of it.  I remember thinking it was cool and being really confused by the fact that there was some strange [...]

I was talking to a good friend of mine and discussing some cool poetry she wrote today, and it got me thinking about back in the day when I used to write poetry a lot more. I kinda miss writing – I should do it again someday. I sifted through my computer and stumbled across [...]

After living in Asia for over 6 years, and never once being able to get back home for Christmas, I’ve come to accept that Christmas will never be exactly what it was when I was a kid. Excitedly sifting through the stocking hung over my bed for marzipan, eating fondue with Swiss family friends, playing [...]

So, i haven’t found a way to mesh feeds together and pump them out successfully as a new feed yet. I’ve got the feed, but Tumblr can’t read it…I’ll work on this more.

Hey guys, Well, some of you might have noticed yesterday that I put up a bunch of “test” blog entries. That was because I was testing out integration for a number of services that I’m sending my feed (and a couple other people’s) to a new site I’m trying to create for multiple J-vloggers to [...]

I was chatting with an American guy living in Kazhakstan yesterday, and he asked me an interesting question: “why do you guys always say foreigner? Does nobody use the term expat out there?” And come to think of it – he’s kinda right. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone use the term….except for that [...]