I’m a Japanese person in Japan now

With a Japanese passport! Because apparently with an American passport and no visa you can only stay for 90 days! And apparently April to August is way more than 90 days. Who knew! Apparently not me!

so long, you faithless potato

My phone has been rapidly deteriorating all summer.

Previously, keeping a stiff upper lip, I’d thought, “Sure. It isn’t ideal. It runs out of battery pretty quickly. Like, all the time.” I decided I could make this an experiment in digital minimalism…

It’d be good for you to spend some time with kids who don’t run around with cameras and monster makeup.

I bought my first legal drink, as I felt honor-bound to do as an underage American visiting a country where she isn’t underage. I’m too boring a person to…

To absolutely nobody’s surprise, this happened in Akihabara.

I got an unexpected number of hits on my blog the other day (read: any), and immediately realized that I had linked my parents to this site and therefore the traffic was now made up entirely of people subscribed to the…

Culture Shock (or: How Toilets Are The New Outsourcing?)

So I think we all know the subject we’ve been skirting all these months. And I think we’ve avoided the topic long enough. That’s right. It is time to discuss Japan’s toilets. And how they terrify me.

More things that would be better with a man instead, probably

My blog is awakened from its eons-long Odinsleep by the exciting news that they’ve released an action figure of Black Widow riding a motorcycle, just like she did in the movie!

everything is beautiful and nothing hurts

I FINALLY FOUND AN INTERNET CAFE.

My uncle pays one yen per month for wifi, and you get what you pay for. Tokyo has been described as a “wifi desert,” because everyone has cell phone from the future here and therefore internet…

Savvy?

I saw that new Jack Sparrow movie today! The tickets are crazy expensive for a screen that isn’t even THAT big, but swank seat cushioning like they had makes up for a lot. I discovered that this movie theater was in a legit mall, which shouldn’t be notable, but I really haven’t been in a mall for a while. There…

That awkward moment when demons push your soul out your nostrils.

Let me tell you, the Puritans were onto something when they came up with the “bless you!” thing.

Am I actually sure that the Puritans came up with “bless you”? Of course not. Do I feel like…