This is why I love Japanese TV.

Tonight I started the yearlong second big set of goodbyes in my life. Insert wistful thoughts about time, impermanence, suffering, cessation of suffering, and dharma here.

I got my first piece of personally addressed junk mail today! Unlike the standard fare of apartment offers and call-girl services, this had my name, handwritten (since their print templates probably can't deal with a massive name like mine). This is how I know I've been living here too long.

If other blogs have kanji of the day, Japanese words of the day, and even bio jargon of the day, I can be geeky too with my GRE Word of the Day: erudite ("learned, scholarly"). Whee...