Single? Boyfriend or husband far away? Buy a Boyfriend Pillow and you’ll never have to spend another sleepless night alone again. What Customers are Saying about The Boyfriend Pillow (Available in Japan, US $80): “It keeps holding me all the way through. I think this is great because this does not betray me.” “It makes… Read More Meet My ‘Main Squeeze’
I read a lot, (a consequence of having only 12 channels on my TV, all of which feature round-the-clock cooking shows) and so I thought I’d share some of the best travel or Japan-related articles I’ve come across this past week. All of them are awesome. All of them I didn’t write (although wish I… Read More Reannon’s Required Reading List
“No one should take themselves so seriously With many years ahead to fall in line Why would you wish that on me? I never want to act my age What’s my age again? What’s my age again?” – Blink 182 I’ve never deluded myself into believing that I’d one day be fantastically wealthy. As a… Read More Expats with REAL Jobs
I’m staying in Japan. For now. I’m getting kicked out of my current apartment. But I’m moving into a new (and bigger and better!) one next week. I started a new job. I’m teaching ESL…to children. One of my new students gave me their cold. I now have a fever. Unfortunately, these are all the… Read More Update on My Life…
Yesterday morning I threw myself a little ‘Pity Party’. Nothing too extravagant. Just me, myself and I and and an assortment of Valentine’s Day chocolate and cookies (courtesy of my four year old students and an impulsive shopping spree at the 100 yen shop) arranged across my tatami mat floor. If that scene in my… Read More My Sorry Attempt to Save the World…
I’ve been afraid of monkeys ever since I was attacked by a monkey in India last year. So I was more than a little apprehensive to learn that these ‘snow monkeys’ I was going to visit in Nagano wouldn’t be domesticated and caged, but wild and free and numbering in the hundreds. I guess I… Read More Adventure in Monkeyland
The only thing worse than being single and dateless on Valentines Day, is being single and dateless in Japan, where, (thanks to evil marketing powers that be) you get to dread not one overly-hyped couples gift-giving holiday but two. Yep, in Japan they celebrate Valentines Day twice a year, once on the traditional February 14th… Read More Meet My New Boy Toy
Someone emailed me recently asking for advice on how to live on a budget in Tokyo. Perfect timing! I’ve actually been brain-storming ways to cut back costs in the last few weeks, being that I’m perpetually broke and soon to be unemployed. In general, I’m not one to give advice on anything, let alone saving… Read More Five Ways to Save Money in Tokyo
512. That’s the number of people who responded to an ad for an ESL teaching position on the job-hunting site gaijinpot.com (the craigslist of Japan). I know this because minutes after I optimistically forwarded the company my newly updated resume, gaijinpot (very considerately) sent me an email to inform me of this little fact. 63.… Read More Must Love Kids: What It’s Like to Teach English in Japan