Winter's going to suck.

- Dom from Rusted Shut is in Chrome now. Pardon me while the sweet sound of "FUCKIN' A!" reverberates around Yatsushiro with the violent force of 10,000 earthquakes.

- Tokyo Scanner is twice as cool as those lame ass "city symphonies" I sat through in film School. Boris Ivens didn't rock enough sci-fi.

- I've studied for 2 or so hours a day for the past 40 some odd days and I still think I'm going to blow the easiest level of the JLPT. Yay for having your teacher quit on you.

- Mid-year seminar is the day after the test. All of us in Yatsushiro are looking forward to hearing various permutations of "We don't know what we're doing here" while we reflect over our test bombing.