On the bullet train I felt pretty confident about my plan. My friends were all shocked; they said I was nuts. But lately I’ve been feeling kind of nuts, so it seemed like a natural fit. Things have been rolling quickly lately – really mounting up – particularly this month: work is busier than ever, I’m making lots of new friends, turned 24, split up with the girl I was dating, nearly passed the halfway point of my contract here, and it’s about to be 2010, and I don’t know if I’m supposed to say “two thousand ten” or “twenty ten” and since there aren’t a lot of native English speakers on hand I’m sort of own my own on that one. Anyway, it’s been a big December so far with both good and bad. So I decided to cap it off with some fresh capers.
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It’s been a long while since I last updated, and that’s mostly because I’ve been all over the place with new friends, work, and loads of cooking shenanigans. But unfortunately no really blog-worthy events have unfolded recently. I do have a couple little incidents to relate, though.
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