January 2009
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Camphora restaurant, over お代わり自由 coffee & tea
Aaron Jasny: So cold-brewed coffee produces cold coffee in the end, right?
me: Yes. Supposedly it's less acidic... Do you like ice coffee [always sweet in Japan]?
Jasny: It's okay, I guess... Not really though. I like my coffee black and strong.
me: ... ... ...
Jasny: ... I'm really not going to go there.
tension: [mounting]
me: ... ... ... *giggle*
Jasny: ... ... ...
me: ... ... ...
tension: [mounting higher]
Jasny: ... Like I like my men.
me: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAA
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these days I take everything to be a sign
So right now, I ought to be doing the considerable amount of homework that I have, but part of the way this semester is not going to be a sinkhole of unmanageable stress and bitterness (yes, it was) is by me taking a little time now and then to do the things I want to do, and what I want to do right now is write.
I’m listening to a genius playlist based on The Decemberists’...
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大塚愛 - さくらんぼ (Ootsuka Ai - 'Sakuranbo')
I haven’t translated a song in forever— most of the time I understand them well enough without going through the exercise, and other times I don’t understand them at all, so I can’t. But this song is SO CUTE I CAN’T DEAL (http://pv6pvnewspv6pv.blog102.fc2.com/blog-entry-84.html). ‘Sakuranbo’ means ‘Cherry/ies,’ but it’s got a shortened...
I left my heart in Kyoto Prefecture
—but I’ll be going back to get it in a week and for now I’m drowning my sorrows in new music. At some point I’ll write about the second half of my semester. It was too hard while I was living it to get everything I had to do for tomorrow done, let alone do things I wanted to, like write. For now, it’s 2009, and apparently the whole music-loving internet is celebrating...