“Occasionally I am callous and strange.”
I’m in the process of working through all the remaining material from my time in Japan: pictures, videos, amusing anecdotes, and all the rest. Towards that end, photos from my trip to Sapporo for the Snow Festival there can be found on my Picasa page. Or you can just look at the bottom of this entry and use the super high-tech embedded slide show action instead, if that’s more your speed. The pictures are pretty bangin’, I must say.
Thank you, Best Buy, for increasing alienation by driving people to digital distribution and online retailers.
However, no stores here have the new Pavement re-release, so really that's on them for not selling the stuff I actually want to buy.
So the advent of digital distribution fosters alienation and the dissolution of community, according to experts.
Re-read all the Scott Pilgrim books in anticipation of getting the sixth one in the next couple of days. I always forget how good they are.
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Just finished watching Avatar: The Last Airbender (the TV series, not the movie). It was incredible. That's how you do storytelling right.
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I guess The New Pornographers released a new CD and I didn't know about it. But I know now. I just hope it's good.
Favorited a video: "D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune)" Official Video FINAL CUT
"In 1867 Adolf Hitler's Nazi party created concentration camps to exterminate some millions of Jewish people."
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Hi,
I found your blog through the job site – is that weird? (I was thinking of applying to one of the jobs you did, and then got distracted because your title line–with the parentheses–was really sweet).
I love your writing. It kinda made me sad that you got your first job, because no matter what it is, it probably requires you to write crap. Anyway, reading a few of your entries made me wish that I had some money (and wasn’t a struggling ‘web content writer’ myself) so I could pay you a little just to keep writing your blog.
Then I thought, that’ll probably dull the edges of your angst, so it’s just as well. In any case, I’ll click on your ads and buy you a cup of coffee that way.
It’s early morning where I am, and finding some nice long writing online seemed like enough of a blessing to attempt leaving a comment.
Good luck with your work. I’ll definitely be back to read more about your trip.
Hey Inika. That is more than a little weird that you stumbled onto my site from the job site, but in a cool way. So far I haven’t had a very positive user experience–I have to submit five bids for every one that I get, and then the jobs themselves all seem to pay some ridiculously small amount where there are not enough hours in the day, mathematically, to actually make anything resembling a living wage doing them. As something to do while I look for honest work it’s not bad, I guess, and keeps the creative juices flowing more or less even when the job is boring copy writing.
Anyways, thank you so much for your comment. It really means a lot to hear people say that they enjoy my writing. That gives me warm fuzzies and is something that never, ever gets old. I hope you keep reading, and I look forward to hearing from you in the future.
Thank you for nice pictures.
I saw some pictures of Snow Festival in Japan before – from magazine, etc, but these are far more lively
School kids, are collecting contributions for ‘Vietnam kids’. My, laudable. Korean highschool zerglings never do that when they taking storm of snow likes that.
And, wow, Korean snow castle? I thought building snow castle is special ability of Japan only. Korean usually makes beasts… Snow Dragon, or Tiger… but castle is cool also.
By the way, have you been to maid cafe?
Vietnam kids? Interesting. Also, I think it is awesome that you refer to Korean high school kids as “zerglings.” Very cool.
I never went to a maid cafe while I was in Japan, although the high school I taught at had an Autumn Festival where some of the second-year girls did a small-scale maid cafe. They wore cat ears also. It was kind of a strange experience. I have some pictures from that day, actually. Now that I don’t work that job anymore I guess I can post them. I’ll post them up on Picasa sometime soon.