Holy Crap!!! ただいま!!!

Holy crap! I'm in JAPAN!!!!!!!!!!
Against all predictions to the contrary I'm back in IMABARI and I'm enjoying the crap out of myself! I have survived my first week of work! I have begun acquiring furniture for my apartment! I will have bookshelves--BOOKSHELVES!!! BOOKSHELVESSSSS! Why am I so excited about bookshelves? Well, last time I went home to America I came back with two suitcases full of food. Peanut butter, nice jellies, wheat bread, tortillas, pinto beans, indian spices, canned gefitle fish, the whole megillah. THIS time, I came back with books. Got me some Dickens, some Graham Greene, some high lit, some low trash, and so many comic books that I had to stuff about four graphic novels into my laptop case like contraband just to make it in under the weight limit for flying. And now i have nowhere to put any of them! But now: BOOKCASES!

And now I'm in the radio station in Imabari recording a marathon of Kessel Run shows to fill out the September schedule, and I'm thrilled to be here. Right now we're listening to Gang of Four with Damaged Goods...and oooo! yes! we just NAILED the crossfade into Gold Lion by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. And here I am in a window box recording studio overlooking the dustbowled shopping arcade in Imabari at ten in the morning dancing my little back-in-Japan booty off for the old ladies and tumbleweeds rolling along neck in neck across the concrete tiles like snails and turtles racing and it feels SO GOOD to be here right now! Yes! YESYESYES!!!!