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nani nani!

last night i was lying in bed, drifting off into the wonderful dreams where i'm a viking! when i feel my bed shaking. i start freaking out cuz i think there's some escaped convict trying to tunnel his way into my apartment (okay, so i'm not always the most rational when i'm sleep deprived). i breathe a sigh of relief when i realize it's not some pervert trying to grab my ass but an earthquake! OoOoOoO my first earthquake! quite titillating. what started as a slight tremor beneath my bed turned into a full fledged entire-building-shaking that rattled the pots in my kitchen. it lasted maybe about a minute. some people might have been too scared to fall asleep after that, but i have faith in japanese technology. i mean, you don't build a city beside an active volcano without some precautionary action. so that's another natural disaster i can check off my to do list. typhoon? check. earthquake? check. what's left? hmmm....volcanic eruption (sakurajima is one of the world's most active volcanos), tsunami (thailand in 3 weeks)...avalanche (hokaiddo in february), yup yup. it's official. i have a death wish.

speaking of more irrational behaviour. i was bored yesterday. and i had access to something sharp and pointy. so i gave myself a demi-mullet. or as the french say it - un moolay. i reintroduced the fun-hawk. since i've had to give up my nose ring, i thought i'd defy the "system" with some funkified hair. i just have to sort me out a banjo and i'm all set. YEEHAW!

tomolo is my deaf school's culture day. it's technically a holiday, but i thought i'd be a trooper and give these kids my support. i was watching this british skit show called katherine something. funny stuff. in one of the skits, she's introduced to a deaf person but doesn't realize that. so when he starts signing, she thinks he's playing charades with her. "film! two words! no? is it a book?"

i was at this party in kanoya over the weekend, and there were a lot of j-people there. well, a lot of j-GIRLS. anyhoo, j-girls for the most part are a sweet bunch, but so domesticated! it's like they complain about how badly they're treated by japanese men, but then they fall over their feet to please gaijin boys. one of the j-girls had hooked up with this 40ish ALT, and even though they were sleeping in another room i could hear them giggling. i'm like stop laughing, he's not that interesting! you probably don't even understand what he's saying!!! seriously, if you're having girl problems, COME TO JAPAN. if you are a blue eyed, blond haired male...dear god, you will have a fan club within a week. if you speak english, you'll still do pretty well. normal dudes become demi-gods here. do i sound a bit resentful? a bit. sorry if i'm not exactly pleased at how some of these guys take advantage of these girls. or the way some of these girls throw themselves at men. it's all a bit degrading. when we woke up the next morning, the j-girls had already cleaned up the entire house. chris was joking that he's always gonna have at least one j-girl at his parties to do clean up. *sweat drop* T__T but i guess i can't really blame 'em - a hot asian who can keep a house, and thinks everything you say is "sugoi" or "oishii"? even i'd consider going gay for that

vocab:
nani - what
j-girl - japanese girl
gaijin- foreigner
sugoi - cool
oishii - delicious