Sometimes I can't tell whether I've been making sensible updates or not. I've been writing little notes and one-page letters to friends back in Philly, telling the story of the day and my personal thoughts on things and whatnot. And here on ole LJ I've been making sure to post lots of pictures. But man, I feel like I haven't made any solid updates in a bit. Does it really matter? Do the pictures tell enough for now? Have you figured out that there are more pictures on my flickr stream? Probably.

Do my good friends even check this shit? PLEASE! Leave a fucking comment Jenny, Alexis, Kerstin, Fred, etc etc etc ...

とにかく (anyway)、I am really feeling the Wax Poetics record rundown on East Village. This past couple of weeks have been killin it. KILLING it. Amazing study music. My new headphones are mostly for fashion, but they've also got preeeeetty good bass going on, so listening to music while thinking about Japanese grammar is extra nice. Also, Osaka homeboy Nori has me no-holds-barred throwing the Philly slang around (which is good for my health, I've decided), and the semblance of a regular hang-out sessions has me feeling a little more settled here. Kansai dialect is killer. I don't even know what they sound like up in Tokyo.

No job. School, dinner, sleep. Weekends getting acquainted with Osaka and Kyoto. Kyoto is out of control serene, if such a saying makes sense to you. I have no patience right now to describe things in detail, which I am sorry for because I feel like so many people write about Japan just in terms of names and places, with no description of what these places feel or smell like. Pictures can only do so much. I will have to spend some time with the notepad. It's really hard to be alone here, though - roommates and people you know are around every corner.