You want it, you got it!
PHOTOGRAPHS. Check out the Galleries for Hokkaido, Okinawa, Kansai and more. Expect Tokyo photographs and local excursion galleries to be posted by the end of next week's vacation. The new software makes it very easy to upload, caption and post. I'm sorry for the pea-green, no-frills layout. Because the software is php and server-based, I can't touch up the HTML like normal site design. I expect I won't have a more color-coordinated Gallery until after I return to the states. But the photos themselves are what matter, right? There should be enough to keep you amused for now.
As for me, I'm lonely and feeling restless again. I haven't heard from my parents or grandparents in months, outside of one ill-timed phonecall and several email from dad lambasting Bush (yay!). I've sent numerous postcards home and I know that they check this blog every now and then, probably just to be disappointed in my choice of words. However, I haven't recieved a single letter or post card since Christmas or before. I don't expect my family to be personable with me, as it doesn't seem standard practice in my bloodline to befriend the children... but a status-check, even if just to ask how the technical things (financial or whatever) are going, would be nice.
I know I'm on the other side of the globe but I haven't exactly isolated myself over here. I write in this blog nearly every day. I post pictures and share very personal thoughts and experiences often without regard for my own potential embarrassment. [Because, really, I don't care.] I've sent out flocks of postcards, often numbering five or more at a time, to different family members in order to let them know I'm still alive in case they DON'T read the blog. I didn't want to risk being accused of abandoning my "filial duties" or some hooba-joo like that... but here *I* am feeling abandoned.
Hello, relatives, are you out there? Are you alive? Just because you can read about MY life doesn't mean I can read your minds!
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