I feel like a character on the West Wing as I try to figure out what day and time you are at.... Friday sometime, yes?
Anime characters? FUN!
Has anything surprised you about Tokyo?
I like books. I just don't want to take on too much. Do they have an introduction to the modern blurb?
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Aug 18, 2005 12:57:25 pm PDT #9245 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Rio - Aug 18, 2005 1:01:13 pm PDT #9246 of 10002
Are you ready to be strong?
It's Friday morning, almost 7 AM. Saget is sleeping peacefully. I'm so jealous.
Has anything surprised you about Tokyo?
The sounds! You don't see those in pictures. For starters, the cicadas are almost deafening in some spots. And there is constant noise in our part of town, which is very Blade Runner-y--machines going off and pachinko parlors and people SCREAMING in very nasal voices to get people into their stores. And yet right now it is very quiet and beautiful.
We've learned a few basic Japanese phrases that are fun to say. People seem to like it when you make even the tiniest effort to say things in their language.
Almost no one here speaks any English at all. That's a little surprising, too.
Glamcookie - Aug 18, 2005 1:03:48 pm PDT #9247 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
SO FUCKING JEALOUS!
Kat - Aug 18, 2005 1:05:08 pm PDT #9248 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Saget is sleeping peacefully. I'm so jealous.
You should wake him! That's totally what I would do to Lori. But I'm a little kid like that.
Since few people speak English, is it difficult just to do all of the things you normally do, like order food, find your way, buy toiletries, etc?
I know the question is weird, but when I'm confronted by an unknown alphabet, I find that I can spend whole days in almost silence and I discover so much more because it's all discovery since I have no idea what is going on. dislocation at its finest.
Atropa - Aug 18, 2005 1:05:15 pm PDT #9249 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Almost no one here speaks any English at all. That's a little surprising, too.
That struck me as odd when we went to Tokyo and Osaka, too. But you'll still have oodles of fun.
Rio - Aug 18, 2005 1:05:56 pm PDT #9250 of 10002
Are you ready to be strong?
Hey, Gloomcookie, with regard to your tag: It's not just my disc, right? That song gets annoyingly, almost unlistenably distorted at the end, right? Why did they do that? It would be such a good song otherwise.
Rio - Aug 18, 2005 1:07:03 pm PDT #9251 of 10002
Are you ready to be strong?
is it difficult just to do all of the things you normally do, like order food, find your way, buy toiletries, etc?
No, I'm pretty good at sign language. And a lot of the menus have pictures. When they don't, we just point at something someone else is having.
Glamcookie - Aug 18, 2005 1:07:17 pm PDT #9252 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
You are correct, RIO. The distortion on many of the songs is annoying. Still love the music, though.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 18, 2005 1:15:57 pm PDT #9253 of 10002
What is even happening?
You should wake him! That's totally what I would do to Lori. But I'm a little kid like that.
This was the source of our first married argument. Dh wanted to nap. I wanted to go exploring.
DavidS - Aug 18, 2005 1:16:45 pm PDT #9254 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hey Rio! What'd you buy for me in anime town?