I have discovered several things this week:
- bittorrent is the perfect companion for single people living alone
- kathy griffin is still really freakin' hilarious
- making your own dinner takes a really long time
- it rains a lot in Japan
- denshi jisho on nintendo DS reeeeaaaly hurts your eyes after a couple of hours working on translations for class
- shopping in shinjuku and having an actual conversation with one of the shop employees in japanese sometimes makes it all worth it
- paying for said shopping with money from a scholarship from a japanese university is infinitely more satisfying than with your own money

And I am seeing a lot of ads for "Hairspray" in Japan right now. From the posters, it looks like the cast is all japanese, and not just a touring show. I wonder: do they change the lyrics into japanese? do they change the character names to japanese ones? And as the show deals with black/white segregation, is that accessible here in Japan? I mean, did they ever have a racial divide like the US did?

And now I am pondering eating. Another downfall of the single-living-alone persona = you are always hungry!