A Little Love for a Neglected Blog

I know I haven't posted much here for a while, but everythings been all about Japan lately. I'm hoping that once I get the internet in my apartment and I don't have reams of new experiences to disseminate to my legions of rabid readers, I'll be able to return to posting random rantings here while still keeping Japan stuff on the other blog.

In the meantime, here's an extra tidbit from the last couple of days that I didn't want the parentals on the other blog to read. On our bus ride from Kansai airport, I was sucked into a conversation with a very vulgar man from San Francisco who'd been teaching in Korea for several years. Not only did his and his girlfriend's jobs sound exceedingly sketchy (her apartment was full of bugs, they had to go on "visa runs" to Osaka, and they were both not very commited to good teaching) they were also kind of drunk and swore with great abandon. Chris talked all about his "nigger girlfriend" as she sat right there (she didn't seem to mind at all, which is why I tolerated it) and his love of drugs despite the fact that he told me you could get jailed for smoking pot in Japan. His regular refrain was "I'm going to get fucking shit-faced tonight!".

It was all a bit seedy, and not exactly the first conversation I wanted to have coming into Japan. But, he did adequately demonstrate what our Nova guide had told us about people being able to drink anywhere, and, if you got beyond the foul language he was a very friendly person at heart who used shocking terms but didn't seem to be harmful in any way. He was certainly very devoted to his girlfriend.

Anyways, I must go now, but I promise to pay more attention to this blog in the future.