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"I am a meat-popsicle" I live and work in Tokyo, Japan, and have been doing so for the past seven years. I have actually spent many years in Japan, first as a “Business Brat”, then as a missionary, and now as a working professional. I have also lived in Central California and Utah, where I was born.Although, born and having spent my formative years in mainland USA, the experiences I enjoyed in my teens here in Tokyo drew me back after a series of frustrations with career and higher education in both California and Utah. I work at a T&D company, where I design training programs for both language and business skills enhancement for our corporate clients. Owing to an obsessively "interested" personality (to me, everything is super cool!) and actual work experience, I also support the IT team, specifically for database creation and management. I feel fortunate to be able to work in this field, because it coincides with my own personal interests in international business, linguistic pedagogy, and the opportunities afforded in all aspects of life though improved communications. I have been married for just a few months over two years; our anniversary will be next month. My wife works at the same company, though in the Finance and Accounting Department. She is Japanese and studies general English communications and North American pronunciation. The course she studies tends, to me, to teach people how to speak like a Japanese-American, as opposed to an American...but, I try to work with her on that. We hope to be able to expand our family of two in the future, but are content to maximize the time we have now in furthering our education and talking through our cultural and religious differences. Besides the national differences, she was raised as a Protestant and I was a Mormon with strong Buddhist influences, being of Japanese extraction on my father’s side. On religion, I am taking a sabatical from the organized social clubs that pose as centers of spirituality. I enjoy talking with Gods in various places and times all through my life. I doubt I will ever be able to shake off the Christian foundation of my life; but if I follow JC, I would only head in the right direction. Lastly, I am into the arts in a big way! I am a pretty good sculptor (in clay at least) and my drawings (albeit often monochromatic) have been received well. My music... hmm, honestly, my music scares me a bit...Everytime I have performed, when I finish the set, the audience was, to a person, in a sort of hypnotic trance. I have never intended that response; I kinda just jam with myself - egoist that I am. So, I have chilled on the music for a season - I just don't want to do something unknowingly dangerous. And the closing: I am. Deal with it. Please think about phrases like "Love one another" or "Be excellent to eachother". The whole of human evolution is in such thoughts, I believe. Otherwise, we are simply animals with better weapons.Peace Tommy