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twenty-eight years and a million words

Tokyo, 2009.03.06

I've been asked by my Japanese language school to write a short blurb on their behalf. I didn't really know what to write, because I've felt completely swamped by the whole thing.

But now I know!

I went to my barber today, and we had our first real conversation. I was able to talk about the crumbling banking system, the horrible trouble that the "Big Three" auto manufacturers have gotten themselves into, and the fact that a nearby condo building is still not sold out after two and a half years and a $200,000 mark-down on the asking price of $600,000. All in Japanese.

It's a self-writing appraisal! 8)

rand()m quote

When I was a teenager I was sure I'd be dead before I was thirty. Let's just say that I am well into some serious gravy time now but sometimes I wonder if I am actually dead and this is hell.

—anonymous blog comment