April 2011
36 posts
today i got stabbed in the face a few times by a 140 pound japanese man with a large needle.
huh, i just re-read that and maybe i should say that the small japanese man was a doctor.
the last few days my jaw had become increasingly swollen with some sort of nastiness and when i woke up this morning i could barely open my mouth without a special type of pain enveloping my life. i crawled out of...
right now i’m thinking about that screensaver that used to come on our computer in the upstairs ‘computer room’ when i was 7 or 8. well, there are two that stick out in my mind as far as childhood screensavers go but one was the 3d pipes one and only came out with windows 95 so before that i’ve got one big giant memory of flying through space.
if you’re 18 or older...
i’m not going to even try to add this song at the end. here it is up front and fantastic, young galaxy’s we have everything.
with this song as soundtrack i could do the following things:
ride a bicycle to france.
climb a small to medium size mountain.
drink a lot of beer.
(a lot of beer)
dance for four hours.
think about things that i shouldn’t think about because they...
observations from my first few weeks as an assistant english teacher at a japanese public junior high school.
- it’s totally possible for 15 year old japanese kids to really suck at using chopsticks.
- while fat kids are statistically more likely to fall asleep in class (probably having something to do with them being warmer than the other kids because of the aptly named ‘blubber...
there are lots of really beautiful things in the world but i think one of them is clouds.
clouds over mountains especially.
i’ve definitely had worse commutes than a 15 minute bike ride beneath clouds hanging over mountains every morning.
definitely had worse.
on wednesday nights i teach a 14 year old japanese kid who moved to the states with his family when he was 7 because he dad got...
here’s a story from my my day spent sitting in an office wearing a tie and not doing much.
i was asked to make a poster today of where i come from. the fabled land of america. so, i did, and when i finished, i looked down upon my enormous creation of color and country outlines and space needles and realized two things.
1. in the ‘american food’ section, without even thinking, i...
there were no english classes today. again. third day in a row. this means that i sat at a desk for 8 hours memorizing japanese vocabulary and trying not to fall asleep by drinking too much caffeine. the shakes, a stomach ache, and a huge surplus of nervous energy were all i had to show for my day at work. just as well, it’s the beginning of the year and things are moving slowly. i’m...
also, a list of things i’m excited for.
mtv’s third season of 16 and pregnant, or as i think it should be titled, 16 and effing entertaining, begins on april 19th.
the newest fast and the furious movie (i’m pretty sure they have more of these than the land before time movies now) is in theaters at the end of this month.
the pending arrival of my friends peter and peter next...
i don’t really feel good when i paraphrase poems because it’s certainly not my place to pull a part out of a whole.
but sometimes, i can’t help it.
galway, forgive me.
The Last River
11. A girl and I are lying on the grass of the levee. Two birds whirr overhead. We lie close, as if having waked in bodies of glory. And putting on again its skin of light, the river ...
and now willy, my friend who lives in taiwan, tells me a story on facebook chat.
willy: i kicked an old man and his scooter over today
mitch: haha wha?
willy: some old man was feeling ambitious stopped right in from of me, so i kicked over his scoot
mitch: what?!
willy: he’ll think twice next time he tries being so bold
mitch: what’d he say?
willy: he looked at me with a...
i just got about 50 minutes into the adjustment bureau before i had to turn it off to avoid being sick all over my computer. total bummer. you know how when you sink a good amount of time into something you know isn’t worth your time, but you kind of just finish it out to say you did it? i didn’t do it. i stopped watching, drank some water to calm myself down, and then deleted the hell...
people from seattle get all worked up over the head and the heart and i’m thinking that this is ok because they’re pretty good. i’m thinking you should maybe listen to this song by them here called down in the valley and then read the rest of this.
i’m looking at these pictures i’ve hung on my walls here in japan and wondering how long it’s been since...
i bought japanese toothpaste at 7-11 last night well after midnight. i walked there. on the walk, my hands froze. i tried to take change out of my jacket pocket to pay for the toothpaste with dancing teeth on the packaging but i couldn’t make my zipper work. the japanese lady standing there kept saying something in japanese but because i’ve only been in this country for a week i had no...
this morning i woke up in my little bed cubby at 9:30. it was wonderful. i was so warm and happy. then i remembered that i was supposed to be at my work in an hour, which in itself wouldn’t have been so much of an issue if i didn’t have to show up at my work in an hour wearing a suit.
“oh no!” i said to myself in my warm and comfortable bed, “i don’t have a...
once upon a time i was supposed to see the band midlake live in san diego. if you haven’t heard them, you should have, someone failed you.
it was setting up to be one of those magically perfect nights that you used to have but rarely have anymore mostly because you’ve graduated college, don’t live with your closest friends, and in some people’s cases (not mine), you...
Kili: i am glad that i have you
me: dude
me too
i’m great
and by i’m i mean you’re
dear kili. you’ll make it. against all odds, our hearts continue to beat.
SURPRISE!
today, a friend asked me if i was in love.
actually, she asked, “estas enamorado?” it was great. i love spanish. everything is so much more important in spanish.
but no, i thought, no i am not. and then i laughed and thought of this song which came out a while ago, and which i may have even posted on this site at some forgotten point in time, but which is still good. (x3 which for...
