Lunch break before a long afternoon of kagura performances (watching, not performing) last Sunday. It’s been a very long time since I last had a bentō from the incomparable Musashi. The kara-age pieces are much bigger than I remember and I was so full after this 🤣

Need a Japanese version too so I can hand them out to the staggering number of people here who still think AI is a fun lil’ tool and nothing more

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Vivid dream log: last night was a full cinematic experience, including melting through several floors of a haunted house (one floor was made of globs of melted white wax), trying (and failing) to call 119 for my nail artist who was convulsing and dying in the dark, cameo by my high school bf,

Anyone else feel like a failure after a dentist’s appointment? I brush, I floss, I 歯間ブラシ every morning and evening, without fail, and yet, every six months, the dental hygienist will find some flaw to point out. Ugh.

Homemade blueberry cold brew tonic 🫐

Wee treat for going to immigration and getting everything settled. Stopped off at Breath Coffee’s stand for an iced pour over (El Salvador). There’s a different staff member there every time I go, so every time it’s “Are you visiting Hiroshima? Have you been here before?” 😂

Immigration went well and now I don’t have to go back til 2036! Success!

The news is on at immigration and the footage from Chiba is just awful. Flash floods and landslides are so devastating, and I imagine the recovery and cleanup process is rough as well, especially in the heat

千葉県の水害被災地の方に届きますように。 生活と住まいの再建のためにまず必要なことをまとめました。自宅が浸水すると何から手を付けたらいいかわからないこともあると思います。被害写真の撮影、片付け方法、罹災証明書申請、保険会社への連絡のほか、片付け時の注意点もぜひご確認ください。

水害時の支援まとめです。 千葉県の水害被災地の方に必ず知っていただきたいのは、水害にあったら行政などから様々な支援を受けられるということです。過去の災害では制度を知らずに支援を受けられなかった方もいます。少し落ち着いてからで大丈夫ですので、支援制度を知って遠慮せずに活用し、生活と住まいの再建に役立ててください。

Keep your fingers crossed for me that everything goes smoothly

Every ID photo has me looking like a deer in the headlights on the verge of an existential crisis

I have to go to immigration tomorrow to renew my residence card for the second time since getting PR and, as someone who generally does not know how to be photographed, I really hate the whole ID photo thing

I have four days left of my summer break and my sense of what day it is is all out of whack

Why yes, I do order toast at least once a week from Progress

Two of my favorite local coffee roasters, Progress and Shimaji Coffee Lab. Progress is one of the few places to offer buttered toast on homemade bread all day long, and Shimaji is the reason I fell in love with coffee ♡

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After a break, Wednesday Night Kagura returns this week with the fearsome eight-headed serpent Yamata no Orochi 🐉⚔️🐉

I do not understand why people are min-maxing reading for pleasure. Why would you vacuously Hoover up books like you’re trying to win at reading. You win at reading by having a good fucking time!

We report: we come across our storm chaser friend at dusk, while he is not chasing any storms. He tells us that he has taken up crosswords in his downtime, of which he has had quite a bit lately. The clouds get longer and wispier, utterly un-stormlike in their peaceful demeanour.

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

15 minutes of fireworks condensed into about 2 minutes 🎆 Take a break! You earned it 📍Yoshiwa Summer Festival (Yoshiwa, Hatsukaichi City, Hiroshima)

Was gifted a HUGE bag of freshly picked blueberries on the same night that my favorite Thai place brought back the one dish I had been pining for for four years (shrimp and pineapple fried rice). Friends, am I blessed?

I did end up going to Nice Coffee’s new location yesterday! The new place is much bigger, super well designed, and open at 7 am for all y’all looking for breakfast 🧇

Today, I’ll be offering prayers for #Nagasaki and those that lost their lives today [Aug. 9, 1945] at 11:02am. The time “fat man” was detonated. This haunting picture I’m sharing is the aftermath of that bomb. I’m not accusing. Like our leaders. We’re just wanting reconciliation. [con't]👇🏽

Local theater was showing a 4K restoration of My Own Private Idaho. Had not seen a Gus Van Sant film before, but was absolutely charmed by River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in their roles. Not a very happy story, but I liked how the scale went from large to small and back to large again.

Speaking of coffee, bought this at Miles Coffee Onobori. Could not resist the siren song of the shiny holographic label.

Maybe I’ll finally go to Nice Coffee Stand’s new reopened location, maybe I’ll buy some fancy cakes at the nearby patisserie. Who is this information for? Not sure, could be you.

I made carrot and cumin pickles and vacuumed and cleaned/reorganized my makeup vanity. Just waiting for my sourdough starter to finish rising so I can make some focaccia or a nice boule, who knows. Anything could happen!

Have been waking up early and instead of resigning myself to more vivid dream chaos, I’ve just been getting up and going about my day. The result? I’m usually done with whatever chores/workout/pottering about that I have to do by 11 am. I even cleaned and reorganized my kitchen cabinets!