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About Me

I am destined to have my own island and become dictator for life.

My Interests

Creating conspiracy theories. Wandering around the world. Collecting books for my future library. Demolitions.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who is not a mental miget.

Music:

Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Bjork, PJ Harvey, The Cure, Death Cab for Cutie, Rufas Wainright, The Flaming Lips, Less than Jake, Mercury Rev, Sunny Day RealEstate and most other whiny boy bands.

Movies:

Grosse Point Blank, The Godfather, Moulin Rouge, Clerks, Ferris Bullers Day Off, The Royal Tennanbaums, Zoolander, Trading Places, Spiderman

Television:

The Daily Show (the only one you really need)

Books:

Mamma Day, Tender is the Night, A Movable Feast, Disgrace, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Symposium, Great Expectations, 100 years of Solitude are just a few of my favorites

Heroes:

Whoever made this.

My Blog

ramblings of an expatriate

Here are some things you may not know about Japan. Bowling allies do not serve beer and have bright fluorescent lighting. Apparently there have been problems in the past with Japanese people getting r...
Posted by Christine on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:36:00 PST

Japanese Summer

August has been an extremely hot month with the threat every now and then of a typhoon. I secretly hope the typhoons will come to my area of Japan so that I won't have to go to work. So far no luck. ...
Posted by Christine on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:58:00 PST

Shinkansen

My family came to visit me in Japan this month. They stayed for about two weeks. I had a lot of fun with them and had the opportunity to be a proper tourist. Our first journey wa...
Posted by Christine on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:18:00 PST

unagi san

Nothing too exciting has happened since the purse snatching incident. A few odd things here and there but other than that life is boring. I was sick for about two weeks. Each day...
Posted by Christine on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:19:00 PST

Bike Thief

Everyone, So that phone number I sent you guys is not longer valid because my phone was stolen. If you do call it a random Japanese person will answer it. First, how I got a bike, I r...
Posted by Christine on Fri, 12 May 2006 03:59:00 PST

Only in Japan

Everyone, My first week in Japan was an extremely long week. I had three days of intensive training with a Canadian named Jeff at a Nova branch in a town called Okazaki. Jeff had th...
Posted by Christine on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:34:00 PST

email

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I usually hate sending group email but the Internet cafe is a far walk and I am on a tight budget right now. Hopefully you all won't hate me. So I m...
Posted by Christine on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:35:00 PST