The Road Less Traveled

Upgrading [DONE]

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

I’m upgrading my blog to the new version of the software I use to manage it (WordPress), so it may be down for a short period of time. Sorry!

Update: All done. It seems there were no problems, so we’re all good to go again!

Tokyo, Comic Market, and New Years – Day 5: Sightseeing the right way and the wrong way

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Well I figured that since I missed a day before, I might as well just make it look like I was doing it on purpose by making a pattern out of it. I assure you that I didn’t just forget about it after having a long day spent at an elementary school in the next town over, being harassed by tons of small children at an “English-language event” they were holding. I also assure you that today, I didn’t hear how tall I was a million times, and I didn’t just realize exactly how tall young children perceive adults to be, especially when said children are about half the size of children of equal age in the United States.

So now that we’re clear on what did and didn’t actually happen (though I was becoming a bit unsure of it myself as I wrote that last bit), we’ve finally arrived at the tale of my last day in Tokyo. I’m sorry if I built it up too much, because it was really rather boring. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it was a lot of fun at the time, but in retrospect, it was a lot of browsing through random stores, window shopping, and other similarly (fun at the time but boring in the retelling)-type stories (yes, that’s meant to be one word). So instead of just getting straight to the [not so] juicy part, I’m going to tell about just what I learned about sightseeing. To ruin a good (not really) story, good sightseeing is all about having a plan. Which of course we didn’t.

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