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About Me

open to everything life has to offer and wanting the most from it. ICHI GO ICHI E. i seek the truth. excitement!! debauchery. my three years in japan are over - what the hell am i doing nextttt you ask? STATES-SIDE ROADTRIP MARCH '08. INQUIRE WITHIN. exorbitance is fun. how do you feel knowing your life is slowly ending minute by minute? are you up for the challenge and more importantly, are you doing something about it? i hope so.

i just finished 3 years of teaching english in public schools in japan. i finished up all my lasts . . .
last sushi lunch - last meetings with friends -
last traditional dinners -

and now, iâ€™m back in america. . . hmmm. it feels surreal. it feels strange. it feels right. it feels really wrong. my life feels like itâ€™s in disorder. itâ€™s good . . . . . and bad. i sit here and reflect on my most recent times of being a full-blooded american gal again, eating sandwiches, burgers, and pizza . . . . in my old hometown, it feels foreign, largely uninviting, and small-town. i anticipated having moments of slight uncomfortableness and short moments of harsh readjustment, and thus far, those have occurred. so the journey begins of reintegration . . .

My Interests

the human connection, photography, travel, playing pool, reading, accomplishing the un-accomplishable, sushi, tofu, SNOWBOARDING, sexuality, learning and new experiences, japan, the fragility of the human condition, camping, going to bars, drinking-being-social-dancing-parties, japanese culture, me-time, conversation, poker, listening to music and seeing it live

I'd like to meet:

internationally-minded people

Music:

ween, fuxa, low, bolt, mogwai, the postal service, doors, peaches, klaxons, trans am, air, philip glass, sublime, hot hot heat, dengue fever, strokes, magnetic fields, instrumental music, the sixths, radiohead, nina simone, sigur ros, franz ferdinand, kings of leon, the libertines, hot hot heat, the bravery, kaiser chiefs, the decemberists, muse, spoon, the faint, anything that i can shake my ass to, 80s music, the bravery, scissor sisters, leonard cohen, denali, neutral milk hotel - i admire and respect most music . . . .

Movies:

lord of the rings trilogy, magnolia, the hours, schizopolis, happiness, the garden state, the house of yes, the graduate, harry potter, the last of the mohicans, the royal tenenbaums, sideways, resevoir dogs, the secretary, the truman show, amelie, requiem for a dream, kill bill 1 and 2

Television:

no no no tv for me.

Books:

haruki murakami, henry miller - tropic of cancer, electric koolaid acid test, on the road, the curious incident with the dog at midnight, david sedaris, anything by paulo coelho but particularly the alchemist, the da vinci code, the hobbit, 1984, farenheit 451, a million little pieces, memoirs of a geisha, lord of the rings trilogy, tom wolfe, intimacy, harry potter, the sun also rises

Heroes:

international travelers and human bonders

My Blog

thoughts on leaving japan . . .

sooooo, i've got about 2 weeks left in the land of the rising sun. i can barely believe it; the whole concept makes me a bit shell-shocked. as of yet, i'm not particularly ready to leave j...
Posted by liz o on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:21:00 PST

the ingenuity

i'm so relieved this soup's just for me . . . ...
Posted by liz o on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:49:00 PST

why can't we all just think like the japanese?

their english is impeccable! i love it love it love it . . . .
Posted by liz o on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:46:00 PST

wow.

this video brought fabulous tears to my eyes, and they sure as hell weren't tears in awe of talent.check it out: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6739710473912337648 luckily, these boys a...
Posted by liz o on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 08:47:00 PST

bloggy mcbloggerson

yo. ok, so i finally quit fucking around, got my shit together, and made a blog some months ago. it's not so much of a thinking and inside-my-head type of blog, but more of a keep-up-with-me-and...
Posted by liz o on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:29:00 PST

pictures! america: part three

alright, moving along. the trip`s winding down, and already i`m feeling a little strange and out of sorts. and i can`t quite pin down the specifics. the oddness of my feelings d...
Posted by liz o on Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:10:00 PST

pictures! america: part two

america: part two. so moving on into the drunken evening, we`re still at art bar on a particularly fun sunday night. we moved jason`s house actions i was serious about the mannequin nick,...
Posted by liz o on Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:31:00 PST

pictures! america: part one

back in japan after traveling for almost 48 hours. jesus. my sleep's off. my appetites off. my bowels are off. and back to the sweltering school i call work to sit a...
Posted by liz o on Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:45:00 PST

like i said . . .

i'll be home bitches from august 2nd to the 14th. i wanna see your faces!! it's going to be an art bar night august 5th - it's a friday. i hope there are no conflicts that would be unbeknownst to a co...
Posted by liz o on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

nihon: wakuwaku desu ne!

konnichi wa. . . i just want to let everyone know, as if many of you didn`t already, i`m living in japan now; hopefully for the next couple of years. i`m presiding as eigo sensei ~ english teach...
Posted by liz o on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST