Sunday, January 21, 2007

They are trying to replace us.


Here's a picture of me with a bunch of adorable six year old kids. I don't know why but everybody gives the peace sign over here, so I did too. Hooray!

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Self fulfilling prophecy, this.

At least I left the GIF of the cat up.

So a recent email from the Maggie of all Maggies herself informed me that, wait... nobody knows what the hell I'm doing here, and that it's my own damned fault. That's what a blog is for, right? So, sorry. Here's the short of things:

I've been in Japan for 4 and a half months, broke and at a job I despise. Rather than go into all the chilling details, I'd prefer to just let that alone for the time being. I've met some really cool people so far and done a little bit of travelling, but not nearly enough of either. I was in pretty good shape when I left, owing to six months of carrying scuba tanks for seven hours a day, but since I've been here I've dropped from a 33 inch waste to almost a 31. That's absolutely nuts, of course, but I guess that's what happens when you replace hamburgers with steamed rice.

Basically I've been spending an awful lot of time just trying to be comfortable- a feeling that is only now beginning to materialize. I've been writing and producing music on my computer a fair bit, but most all of it is early stage demo not finished by any means yet stuff that won't be heard for a while. Hopefully by the time I come back I'll have a good slew of material to form up another album, but it's slow going on this one and that's ok with me.

So about that coming back...

Yes, I am. Don't worry ma, don't worry pa... despite all conjecture to the contrary I have no intention of staying in Japan, or even abroad, for more than a few years at most. That said, I haven't yet gotten out of this living-in-a-foreign-country thing what I really came here for.

So it's another year for me.

With any luck, come March the stars will be aligning: new job with better pay and more benefits tangible and otherwise, new single apartment in the middle of the city with plenty of aural space to practice in, two weeks of paid vacation at the precise moment it becomes financially viable for me to actually travel. Basically, it has taken me this good six months to figure my ish out, and that's not such a bad timeframe especially when you're talking about moving to another freakin country for God's sake. The persistent unease I've been feeling- like I need to be able to run away at any moment- has finally been lifting. It's been remarkably similar to the feeling I had just before and after graduation too...

So that's the short of things. I promise to keep this thing updated, because it really is a good way to stay in touch with the people I care about. So thanks Maggs for spurring me to action.

Less than two more months of the language mill! More to come.

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