Had an earthquake hit tonight! Woohoo!! Although, it was pretty big and kinda scary. The TV told me it was about a 4.0 on the Richtor scale after it was all over. When I have to brace my monitor from flopping over it's time to slightly panic. As a matter of fact, nature is kicking-ass and taking no prisoners at the moment. With the typhoon in Taiwan and these flash rainstorms pounding Tokyo and parts of Southern Japan, what are we puny humans to do?

Work is going okay. Still inching ever closer to that big dream of mine. It's still gonna take a little time it seems but I'm still on track! Honest! I'm juggling a bunch of things all in varying degrees of seeing light so stay tuned.

Oh, I watched the horror movie Orphan the other day. I was expecting to be disappointed since most horror movies are (statistically speaking) baaaad but I was pleasantly surprised with this one. The dad in the movie was in denial the entire time and was annoying but the twist along with the little thrills and scares were pretty nice. The house they lived in where most of the film took place was freaking awesome, btw. Geez. I wanna live there. Recommended!

I'm itchin' for some fireworks. I went to the big Sumida River festival a few weeks ago and was sorely disappointed. It's not like we got there late or anything but we had to pack up and constantly move due to all the fuckin' buildings and people crappin' our view. We settled on sitting on an unfinished foundation of a house with an apartment standing and blocking about half our view. Yay. SO, yeah. Tamagawa fireworks! 22nd! Stoked!!

TAK