fukuoka & nagasaki

I'm currently waiting for about 14 files of a design project left to upload to an FTP and if I leave my computer for any extended period of time, the connection gets disrupted soooo I thought I'd take the time to write about my belated trip to Kyushu in February. Since November I'd been planning to meet my friend Becka down in Nagasaki where she JET's in a small coastal down. Since I had to transfer to a different line in Fukuoka, my friend Liz and I planned a small meet-up as well. By the way,...

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3.11 tohoku earthquake

I know most of you have heard enough about the Sendai earthquake on Friday and frankly, I've heard almost more than I can handle so I'll make this brief. When the first one struck at 2:45pm on Friday, I was at work. I stumbled out of the bathroom and into a shaking room full of half-panicked people and half-I'm gonna work until this building crumbles to the ground type people. Our building is new and strong but we still felt the up-and-down jolting. The bad kind of jolting. If it sways, it's...

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birthday haul

Oooh my gosh, the time the time! Where does it go? I've been doing a lot lately but sadly nothing interesting enough to post about on here. Plus some good things may be happening by way of my dreams actually coming true but I'll have to post more about that a bit later; when things are more concrete least. For now, I'll post my birthday haul! I am in no way made of money and neither are my parents but my mom got me a lot of really lovely things for my birthday. Make...

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