Nujabes on the Bluetooth speakers. A significant yet moderate & responsible amount of alcohol in my body. My back on the tatami floor. My head on a pillow. Life is good!

The friend at whose place I'm staying in Hachinohe is friends with the people in whose Airbnb I stayed three years ago, so one of them just dropped by to see me again and have a little chat.

Receiving word that the cat who just licked my finger would never do such a thing to a man's finger.

Canned wine is here to reassure me I might be in the right timeline after all.

Just received someone's business card in the onsen dressing room. That's a first!

Basically the same thing as Shibuya Scramble, but with no annoying tourists.

The design of these public restrooms goes hard!!!! 🔥🔥🔥

abandoned railway!?

Thought it was starting to rain. Turned out the wind is blowing so hard I was being hit with river droplets, dozens of meters away from the river.

I found the place where they store snow during winter.

Maybe I'll go ask them. I've descended from the embankment.

I wonder what these guys are up to

There are such pretty sights in the border zones between nature and human civilization

I waved at them and they waved back

ホバル　モラン　焼焼

店員さん: (試着したスカートは)どうでしたか?
E: 超かわいくて、似合うけど、値段がちょっと高いので悩み中です。
店員さん: 悩んでください 😌

辞書による「悩む」の定義が　"to be worried; to be troubled"　だからその「悩んでください」って言葉、面白いと思うよ。

"Please be troubled."

Good one!

Yeah I guess I'll make a similar tweet & post in Japanese maybe.

It's more that, for instance, she finds herself wondering if someone would maybe like her to refer to them in a different way because of their seeming transness, but going "hey you're trans, right? Do you want me to change something about how I engage with you?" would not be ideal either.

Japanese cishet friend of mine told me that one thing she struggles with after having lived in USA for a while, is that she finds herself able to pick up that people around her in Japan might be trans/gay but she isn't sure how to signal to those people they can open up to her.

Anyone have tips?

He is really difficult to understand at times and then my friend (who is literally a native speaker of Japanese) turns to me, hoping I somehow understood what she couldn't.

If we get a higher score on the karaoke machine than the 84-year-old guy running the place, the bill is for free. But no one ever beats him.

At the cutest スナック in all of Japan

😺

Yeah! Only damage in the house I'm in seems to have been two broken glass items.

I'm a bit shocked emotionally, but physically I'm 100% fine.

So many aftershocks!! and quite strong ones too!!

Cat is safe!

Tsunami evacuation warnings, but again: i should be safe where I'm at.

Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture

Friend at whose place I'm staying immediately sent me an instagram DM to tell me to go away from the sea if I was still near the coast (I'm not).