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So, just as I have gotten settled in, Fall is here. The temperature is dropping and the women here are already getting out their fur mufflers. On top of it all, you never know when its going to rain. I have a feeling I’m going to be living in  boots for the next couple of...
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I should be sleeping. But just as I turned off the lights the wind began to howl outside of my window and I could hear the laundry scraping at the glass , fluttering in the wind and somehow making the noise that crows make somewhere in the back of their large dry throats. every...
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It is hard to not spend money in Tokyo. Especially in Shinjuku in Takashima square where all of the mall billboards ate telling you to shop in their bright hyper saturated lights. Especially when you are setting up an apartment and you walk through the rain to Tokyu Hands and you remember about sixty...
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The school down the street had some kind of international fesivtal today where they had an orchestra playing peices from Wagner’s Nibelungen. It sounded like a rock concert, with the students screaming like there had been a Beatles (Backstreet Boys? Jonas Brothers?) appearance. That sort of thing can be pretty scary first thing in the...
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