2 May 2005

Of COURSE I should have updated you weeks ago. Yes.

But I didn't, I couldn't -- or at least wouldn't -- and so here we are. 

The main thing is we're still TOGETHER, right? 

Now, listen -- I've gotta go out of town for a few days -- it's GOLDEN WEEK here in Japan. Can you believe they actually call it "golden week"?!? Fantastic. And since it's GOLDEN WEEK, the week of spring holidays, I'm joining some friends for a short trip down south-a-ways, to the so-called "FCC" -- which I have NO IDEA what that stands for, anacronymically-speaking, but it is the name for the campground which the Japan churches own, down near Mt. Fuji. 

So I'll be gone for a few more days, but hope to return later this week and then I'll try to fill you in on all my recent adventures -- at least the ones I haven't already forgotten. 

By the way -- I told my friend Fumie I was going to FCC (near where her father is still a pastor), and she said, with a look of concern, "Watch out for the bees!"

Now, isn't that the kind of thing that makes kids have night-terrors and stuff? 

Later someone confirmed for me that several people die each year in Japan from "killer bees"... go figure. 

But don't worry -- I'll watch out for the bees! You do the same and I'm sure we'll all be fine...

15 May 2005

Look -- don't get mad at me. I honestly LIKE posting. I do, c'mon -- I DO. But whether I've spelled it out so clearly or not, from the start of April my schedule got a LOT more full... and... well... I don't know...

Maybe it's spring, right? I mean, maybe I've had it in my heart to come here and tell you all about my adventures, big and small (none of which are so interesting that you should care to hear them, I might point out parenthetically) -- but anyway, what I was saying, is that having it "in your heart" to do something doesn't always translate into DOING it. Sometimes it leads to just the opposite, right?  

SO...

Anyway, I'm here. And I'm more than fine. 

I'm full of joy, and dreams, and microwave dinners... and baloney. 

Especially the baloney... 

. . .

"Keep your eyes on the ball... keep your eyes on the ball..."