8hr flight and they make a announcement to close the window shades so folks can sleep but one of the flight attendants is picking at ice at 2am 😅

I thought Teslas detected cars around you but I have almost died from one not checking their blind spot before they changed lanes and not using a blinker. Also, get rid of your Teslas 🚮

I moved back to Seattle last year and somehow the drivers have gotten worse!!! Where are y’all coming from?! Why are you honking at me when I’m going the speed limit?!! Why do ppl not know how to zipper merge!! Are we not using our blinkers now??

Rented a car over the past few days and had a thought; I should wear a helmet while driving in Seattle. Seattle drivers have always been bad. Ive been here since 2001 and I grew up driving in and around here for 19yrs but gave up my car when I moved to Brooklyn in 2021.

This roll of film was a good reminder to shoot more black & white. Photos from February in Japan.

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

On the subject of people traveling to the US right about now: Fuck, if I were from another country and I didn't need to come, I sure as hell wouldn't, the current administration has made it clear traveling here isn't safe, and why not take them at their word, there's a whole world to visit

Video shows former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte being arrested on a plane at Manila airport on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant over alleged crimes against humanity during his crackdown on drugs.

rainy days with pompompurin and his friends muffin & mint 💫

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While I’m thinking about emojis, the 🔰 emoji signifies a new driver in Japan. I’ve seen non-Japanese ppl use it for random shit. Also, 🍥 is a fish cake. Handful of emojis are only applicable to Japanese culture bc they were created by Japanese cell phone companies in the 80s and were adapted.

Sometimes I look at Japanese ppl’s social and they use the 🕊️ emoji in the opposite way that my American brain does. I associate and reserve 🕊️ for people that have died/ RIP and not a love/peace/harmony ~casually~ post.

Jet lag from Japan ➡️ WA always takes about a wk for me.

•Day 0, 3hr “nap” followed by 5hrs sleep
•Day 1, slept 3hrs, had dentist appt at 8am 😭
•Day 2, slept 10hrs
•Day 3, stayed up for 26hrs 🤪
•Day 4, slept 4hrs from 11am-3pm

Got a wedding to shoot this wknd, 🤞 for my body to recover in time.

If I was in BK, I would take it in a heartbeat 😂 it was really cute but my electric bill would prob be so high trying to keep warm in the winter.

Apt 4 (2DK): I didn’t take any pics, it was too small. But nice location, only one with yard access that I saw.

Apt 3 (1LDK): oldest + cheapest unit I saw. Liked the layout, but generally too old. Tile bathroom = so cold.

Apt 2 (2LDK): second oldest unit I saw. I liked how bright it was in the living area. Sad kitchen. Very tight entrance into bathroom area.

Here are the apts I saw in Iwate last week. Didn’t like any of them enough to sign a lease. Apt 1 (2LDK): narrow w/ curved stairs I don’t love. Nice otherwise. Pet doors! Most expensive one we saw.

Social media video pet peeves: when people tap the products with their nails. Right up there with food videos where they rip into something with their bare hands (ie cream filled bun) 😖

Morioka is the capital of Iwate 😔 Going to Iwate in 3 days, hope my parents stocked up on eggs and hope their neighbors chickens are ok 😔

The US is fucking around and finding out.

We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government.

Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Days like this can be hard and take a toll on our mental health, but they are temporary: bit.ly/3CrlD8S

Also worth mentioning, I am working in my hotel room. Not really sightseeing, etc. This is also what happens when I stop seeing a therapist and I must process my obsessive reaction to the singular response my dad has expressed.

Hotel room

Ochazuke buffet

Clarification: I booked a hotel in Tokyo. It is right next to Tokyo Station! They have free late night ochazuke (rice tea porridge) buffet, morning coffee + smoothies, afternoon snack, and happy hour wine. I just don’t want my dad to think I’m irresponsible with my money 😆😭 Immigrant child problems.

or maybe bc my parents immigrated to the US (Kansas) in the 80s and cost of living was relatively low in most of the states we lived in, but prob a mix of everything. We were mostly a single income family, my dad in restaurants. Anyway. I stand firm, $100 for a 3-star is a good deal!

When I tell my dad I spend approx $100 a night for a 3-star hotel (in my mind very affordable for a 3-star), my dad instantly yells out, that’s too expensive!! I don’t know if this is bc he’s not keeping up with inflation, because he lives in Iwate (aka the sticks), 2/3

Having lived in Seattle for a majority of my adult life (+brief 3 years in Brooklyn) has shaped what I perceive as expensive and affordable. My parents lived in the Seattle metro area for 20+ years but moved back to Iwate, Japan 4 years ago. 1/3

A pattern on an embroidery hoop. It features 7 different knives with the words "no spoons left only knives " written around them. The pattern is drawn in blue washable pencil.

And now to start a needlepoint project for a friend.

Black cat looking at the camera

Tama says hello.