Adventures in Japan

I Am A Big Wuss

This is the week where Keiko is telling all my students, who I have been teaching for the last three years, that I am going back to Canada. Will you think less of me if I tell you that I tear up a little bit each time she does? I don't cry, that comes in a couple weeks, but I blink a lot. Moist blinks. You do! You do think less of me! Well then, forget about your gifts!

No, actually...

What do you guys want? If you want something, you better tell us soon.

Seriously.

Word

I just now got a haircut. As I was sitting there, in the barber shop, with a nice old straight razor holding lady lathering my forehead, I heard a jingle on the radio. That is not odd, not at all. Their jingles sound a lot like our radio jingles: faux-happy and harmonized. They are usually in English, too. But I'm pretty sure I've never heard a jingle for "Funky Cool Black Music" on Z99.

Surprisingly fluffy

Holy crap! It's snowing! In Osaka! That almost never happens!