holiday
Been a while, but this is no time to talk!
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
Roy and Electra are at a 10-day silent meditation retreat from Dec 22, 2011 until Jan 2, 2012 and will not have internet or phones. Feel free to email or leave a voicemail to contact either of us if it is not an emergency, and we will respond when [...]
Thailand!
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010written by Electra
Roy and I joined forces with my cousin Kat and her hubby Hans to go to Thailand for Christmas and New Years and then some. It has been a nice level of adventure thus far.
ただいま！
Sunday, August 16th, 2009We’re back in Sapporo! Good morning to all. Back to work.
Presidential Inauguration
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Electra says,
We are at our friends’ Jonna Lynn and Andy’s apartment in the building over, along with another friend, and we are watching the inauguration streaming live on the Senate page of the appropriate committee.
It’s 1:11am. The four of us (Jonna Lynn went to bed) are mostly planning to call in sick tomorrow. (Not Roy. [...]
Thrilling but not official.
Saturday, October 25th, 2008written by Electra
We did not in fact do Thrill The World, but Electra did the dance at a Halloween party for a small town’s elementary school kids. It was good times. Roy did not dance, but haunted a stage for the benefit of the kids. He was a zombie, and I was a pirate. [...]
Golden Week 誕生日
Monday, May 5th, 2008May 5 is my birthday. That’s 誕生日 in Japanese. So yesterday I celebrated it, mostly with Roy but then with friends in the evening. Luckily, it is on a big holiday here in Japan — 子供の日 — which is in the midst of a large cluster of consecutive holidays. Those are Japanese [...]
雪祭り!!! Sapporo is famous for the Snow Festival.
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Okay, this past weekend was what is called “yuki matsuri”/雪祭り/The Snow Festival. Its a really big Sapporo event, organized by the 自衛隊. Every night after a big snow-fall, the JiEiTai comes in the dead of night with their snow-plow bulldozers and dump trucks and steals all the snow on the street! Then they [...]
奇麗な女ですね!
Saturday, January 26th, 2008Remember Electra’s post about buying a kimono? Well here it is!
This picture was taken at Sagara-sensei’s house on 正月 (Shougatsu — New Year’s.) Specifically, this was what we call New Year’s Eve (Shougatsu seems to be 3 days so far as I can tell.) That night, we went to the shrine near Horohirabashi and did [...]