Due to popular demand, anonymous comments have now been enabled on this blog, policed by word verification - sorry, comments-bots! Of course, now that I've enabled this, probably no one will care enough to actually leave a comment.
I have really good friends. Recently, when I put out an email call for anything interesting or funny to help cheer me up, here is a sample of what I received: Some pictures: [photo courtesy of Jorge ] [photo courtesy of Dave ] ...and another photo that I won't post here out of fear of being murdered by Michelle, but I will print the caption for it: "Smile, you could be 39 weeks pregnant with a big belly, a broken ankle, using a freakin walker!!!" A link to a sugar daddy dating site A link to a video of Darth Vader being a jackass Funny stories about Malaysian astronauts, adventures in hair waxing, and office pooping etiquette A 3-hour telephone conversation (which I don't think I have done since I was in high school) Holiday stories from Croatia and China; everyday life stories from Vienna and Huntsville ON. Offers of tickets to a political comedy show Someone called me a " vulpes vulpes " And, general well wishes and nice things about me It was all fanta...
Blogger has been a bit of a bee-yotch lately, so I wasn't able to post more before I left Tokyo, and now here I am back in Ottawa experiencing some pretty major jet lag. When I left Tokyo it was Monday afternoon at 5, and when I arrived in Ottawa it was still Monday, 7.30 in the evening, and I'm pretty certain that my flight was more than 2.5 hours long. Mt. Fuji ended up being a bust, as I seemed to have caught the extended tail end of a rainy season in Japan that just doesn't want to end. Going to T's colleague's parents' place in the country was also a bust due to an illness in the family, so instead we went down to Koya-san, the holiest mountain in Japan, to stay in a Buddhist temple, eat surprisingly delicious vegetarian meals based mainly on tofu, and take part in a confusing, fairly unintelligible but wholly spiritual Buddhist prayer session. After visiting one of the largest and most beautiful cemeteries I've ever seen, we accidentally hiked down ...
You are family!!!! And you're welcome to visit and stay anytime!
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oodles of love,
Nat
So good.
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Sorry to have missed you Isha!
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