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Jen

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About Me


Do what you can, when you can, with what you have.



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My Interests

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Music:

Aaron Copeland, Barenaked Ladies, The Clash, Death Cab for Cutie, ELO, Fleetwood Mac, The Fray, Gackt, Joe Hisaishi, Michael Kamen, Neil Diamond, Queen, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Seatbelts, Yoko Kanno... classical, holiday, jazz, rock, soundtracks... pretty much anything but rap

Movies:

Boondock Saints, Clerks, Idlewild, Kikujiro, Kingdom of Heaven, LA Story, Open Range, The Pink Panther (all of them), To Kill a Mockingbird

Television:

Adult Swim, House, Monty Python's Flying Circus, MXC, War of the Worlds (80's), JP cooking shows are good for listening practice :)

Books:

Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators, The Catcher in the Rye, Coin Locker Babies, The Divine Comedy, In the Miso Soup, Kafka on the Shore, The Temple of the Golden Pavillion, Watchers... Recently, I highly recommend Ryu Murakami

My Blog

Japan Journal 5

Greetings again from Asahikawa. I've been very, very delayed in getting the next few journals posted. And, this one will be in English, as you can plainly see. Next time Japanese... promise. Actually,...
Posted by Jen on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:39:00 PST

Japan Journal 4

Hello there! Well, it's about time for a new journal entry. Good thing I have this, because I've only made on entry in my paper journal. Not at all surprising. So I've applied for a transfer to Sappor...
Posted by Jen on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:03:00 PST

Japan Journal 3

So then... let me tell everyone about Kushiro and Sapporo. I visited Sapporo for 5 days and it was freakin' awesome! I loved it. I was in downtown so there was tons to do. There's a place called Tanuk...
Posted by Jen on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:43:00 PST

Japan Journal 2

Gosh, this has taken longer than expected, but surgery tends to set things back a bit. That taken care of, I'm out of here in 2 1/2 weeks! It's surreal to think I'll be a resident of a foreign country...
Posted by Jen on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:24:00 PST

Japan Journal 1

So this is my first entry in the Japan journal. I'm gonna keep track of what all happens over the next year just because. I've started the process to get to Japan, including visa apps, shots, bank wor...
Posted by Jen on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 06:00:00 PST