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    For those not on Facebook

    Or for those who are just curious here’s a link to all my current photos of Mutsu (i.e. everything I’ve posted to FB) on my flickr photostream

     

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/11136143@N00/sets/72157626157507479/

    check it out, & comment please,

    ~Josh

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    An Epic Disaster

    The chances of experiencing an epic disaster in one’s life- one so devastating that it probably shifted the earth’s access 23cm is probably rare. As a child, the mass media conditioned me to take the brunt of devastating news with solemness, but somewhat indifference. There has always been a separation between the event and [...]

    The Last of the Winter Semester

    The Winter Semester is here is the shortest of all semesters at only 9 weeks verses Fall which is like 15 weeks. However, despite it’s length, Winter is the hardest to endure. The cold that builds up over the later Fall months of October, November, and December peaks and it zaps one’s energy and [...]

    Morning’s state

    Nothing deep today or spiritual today just an account of the last few hours… I woke up this morning just 20 minutes past 6am with a headache from the fumes of lingering bleach from the kitchen [...]

    actio et reactio

    Ok so I was naive to think that an action I made wouldn’t be accompanied by a reaction of equal magnitude in the opposite direction. 

    That is to say, “actio et reactio.” or translated, “My big mouth and the reaction to it”

    Reading over my last post again, I realize that it’s in [...]

    A Multi-layered life

    Edit:

    A Multi-layered life is like a big taco

    yum

    ~J out

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    Pondering 2011

    It’s been awhile since I’ve written here, and this week being sort of sick particularly doesn’t exactly motivate to write either. However, seeing as I have some time I’ll write anyway.

    It’s remarkable that I and so many others have “made it”, in a way of speaking, to 2011. Recently I re-watched “The Fellowship [...]

    Unten-Menkyo-Shiken J-Driver’s Lic.

    *I finally have some free-time this winter break so it’s time to publish some old drafts I’ve been meaning to finish!

    Quoted in some circles as being the hardest test in Japan to pass by any single foreigner, the “Japanese Driver’s License Exam” is one of those things not to be taken lightly.

    but [...]

    Happy Thanksgiving! とアメリカ感謝祭とは

    To everyone whose enjoyed their Thanksgiving feast in America I wish them a Happy Thanksgiving from Japan!

    For the rest of you…

    Thanksgivingとは、

    Thanksgiving Day は感謝祭(かんしゃさい)、And it is an アメリカ合衆国の祝日のひとつ。Thanksgivingと略称(りゃくしょう)されたり、あるいは「七面鳥(しちめんちょう)の日」 Or “Turkey Day” と呼(よ)んだりもする (Not a very good 略称 really)。アメリカでは毎年の11月の第4木曜日になっている。日本のプロテスタントでは収穫感謝日 (The Day of Harvest) と呼ぶ。

    Thanksgiving dinner!

    Everyone differs on what they serve but generally,

    The 「Traditional Feast」 [...]

    FALL into Winter

    Random picture post with 3 pictures of fall… more to come.

    finally a song I’ve been listening to lately…

    The Bonny Boy by the Dubliners

    All the trees are growing tall, And the nights are growing deem, And many has the night and day hath past, since you and [...]