Author Archives: Coastal Typist

Hi there. I seem to have found the paper on which I scribbled various insights about school life and various other tidbits here in Japan. It was in my language text just waiting to be found, this paper was. About the following, this is soley my experience, viewpoint, and so forth, and so on. IContinue reading “living on the fritz,”

The weekend was great. In fact so was last week’s two day work week. Okay, alright, it was a little more than that. Last week’s two-day meant that I was up and out to go about to Sapporo for a business trip. Business trip? Well, you could call it that. It was instead our mid-yearContinue reading “then it came,”

(above: football makes the world go round) ..stone-walled by snow. The ETC (or Electronic Toll Collection system/aka toll highway) or express highway to and from Sapporo was shut-up due to snowfall. It was a rare occasion indeed. But this bit of information has to do with my travels to and from Sapporo this last weekend.Continue reading “football and stone-walled,”

Okay, gosh, golly ! Alright, I won’t say I forgot about this, or about you today. No, that’s not it at all. It’s mostly that I am on a slight, albeit slight lack of sleep. Now the lack of sleep could have something to do with the fact that I stayed out late in theContinue reading “wonderflee”

A parse note on the winds of this here place. This place and town where I live, I really must say..there is something about the winds. And I mean the winds right this now moment. —Let me regale you for only but a breath, As the winds tear along the street-scape of this simple andContinue reading “windish”

And that it does. It looks like someone blew up the Ghostbusters Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from the end of the Ghostbusters film. In fact it has been snowing so steadily here that the snow has chilled the windows of our office building and the snow has caked on to the outside panes. The cakedContinue reading “it looks like”

I had a little walk today. I stood up from my desk and trundled along to the main front and entrance of our town hall to peruse our Sister City stuffs. Photos, picture books, and happy smiles of people on exchange in both Canada and Japan. I was reminded a little bit, happily of course,Continue reading “"let it ____,"”

This post is meant to be about Japan. Well, so is this entire blog, in fact. Hah. Well, rest assured that is the case. And, no. Things won’t be changing -much everything will remain very Japan.But being one of, one part in Japan does not mean that I cannot enjoy the frigid and welcome watersContinue reading “yes, and then-“

Hello again, This week I hope we can make due with a short reflection. At about this time and season here in Japan for those of us who are participating in JET (this Japan and Exchange Teaching) program we are at present faced with the soon decision of whether or not we hope to recontractContinue reading “when waited,”

Oh, sorry. Did I not happen to tell you? To inform you that I was famous? Oh, no. Hang on then, I did that. Well, let me sidle past that and get on to the other bits. This last weekend the culmination of much planning, preparing, staying late-ish after work, and a lot of stretchingContinue reading “and then, the play-“