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Feb. 22nd, 2005 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moominmolly1. Frozen my ass off on top of an active volcano, in the snow:
2. Wondered what the hell a golden turnip was doing balancing off the Asahi beer building:
3. Found a souvenir thingy with my name on it in hiragana! I could never find them when I was a kid, despite having a reasonably common name:
4. Drunk Mucha-themed coffees out of a vending machine:
5. Played House of the Dead III in its native environment, a shiny Japanese arcade:
6. Wondered whether all young Japanese schoolgirls have magical powers, because they sure do look it:
7. Eaten sushi off a conveyor belt (okay, I'm sure dozens of you have done this -- I even did it in Amsterdam -- but it was still SO COOL):
8. Seen a little slice of New Orleans inexplicably lodged in Kyoto Station (I love seeing non-English words I know spelled out in katakana):
9. ...
you just KNOW that font would have crosses through the Os if it were in this alphabet.
10. Marveled at how late-evening light can make even deer shit look beautiful:
I think that this list might be hard for me to make if I weren't in Japan right now. I can think of a whole host of things I've done that not many of you have done, but in general, I prefer to share weird and interesting things with partners and friends, so a lot of you have been there for the good stuff. :) Or, at least, the list I would make might consist entirely of dull things and stuff I did before the age of 18.
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Date: 2005-02-23 04:16 am (UTC)Also, that's a turnip? I thought it looked more like golden sperm.
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Date: 2005-02-23 05:03 am (UTC)The Mister Donut is a separate shop, just to the right of the Cafe du Monde. I didn't have a beignet, I had a tofu donut at Mister Donut (surprisingly good).
It's not a turnip. It's apparently a re-interpretation of beer foam, in the form of inscrutable slightly-ugly art. I just thought it looked somewhere between a turd and a root vegetable.
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Date: 2005-02-23 03:10 pm (UTC)Wasn't true when I was in New Orleans, either. *shudder*
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Date: 2005-02-23 09:12 pm (UTC)I didn't actually eat there, so I can't say anything about the taste of their sushi. But the concept rocked.
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Date: 2005-02-23 05:19 am (UTC)You are so cool.
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Date: 2005-02-23 03:16 pm (UTC)I enjoyed Spain in a very laid back, relaxed, industrialized country way. An easy trip. Always traveling by train we hit Lisbon, Cordoba, Seville, Grenada, Madrid, and bus tour to Toledo. Original plan included going to Barcelona then renting a car and driving through Andorra (to go there) and France (which has the better road) to Bilbao but it was decided that that was too much for a honeymoon. Someday.
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Date: 2005-02-23 02:06 pm (UTC)Is it more exciting to see non-English words rendered into katakana than English words? :-)
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Date: 2005-02-23 02:14 pm (UTC)Is it more exciting to see non-English words rendered into katakana than English words? :-)
Yes! I couldn't tell you why, but it's much funnier to me.
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Date: 2005-02-23 02:39 pm (UTC)i, um, love his art. :)
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Date: 2005-02-23 04:47 pm (UTC)Yes!! I remember first realizing that the Japanese word for bread, "pan", was actually also a borrowed word :) Apparently if you look closely enough, you'll see lots of Portuguese scattered around.
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Date: 2005-02-24 02:53 pm (UTC)It's such a bizarre coincidence, though, that it feels like it should be true!
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Date: 2005-02-24 03:01 pm (UTC)oh, well. I suppose it's also got a cool "how words get their backstories" story to it. Linguistic historiography.
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Date: 2005-02-24 03:05 pm (UTC)But yeah, I love learning about the origins of words. I really wish it had occurred to me to study linguistics before I was a senior in college.
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Date: 2005-02-24 03:08 pm (UTC)A haiku
Date: 2005-02-23 04:12 pm (UTC)Read her name written on it
Cooler or less cool?
;)
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Date: 2005-02-23 06:32 pm (UTC)Blackjack!
Date: 2005-02-23 07:56 pm (UTC)Re: Blackjack!
Date: 2005-02-24 07:26 am (UTC)So, I guess you've got me on #9, or something. :)
Re: Blackjack!
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