changes

these asian summers are no joke...it's hot as hell!! well, at least it's already the middle of august, so the weather SHOULD start gradually cooling down as the autumn season approaches.

so how do japanese people escape this heat? shopping in ridiculously-air conditioned shops, drinking lots of cold beer, and hitting up the beach! i went out to yuigahama with marie last week and managed to get this ridiculous sunburn on my shins and the tops of my feet. almost one week after and walking is still painful!! oh well, the beach was def a dope experience, but unfortunately very short-lived. the beach season officially starts on july 15th (after the rainy season), and ends today when the jellyfish supposedly check their calendars and collectively decide that it's time to start attacking all those human invaders.

on august 5th, the nova branch that i was working at (toranomon) closed its doors. although the official stance is that the lease on the building expired, it's pretty obvious that the company is in a bit of a bind now and doing what it can to correct its previous over-expansion blunders. i'm gonna miss that school.





but hello to my new office at hibiya! great location right in ginza, lots of fun stuff to do, good restaurants, bars, shops. coworkers all seem like good folks and students are a much more diverse bunch. we went out to this chain restaurant called ZEST the other day. it's trying to be this tex-mex type of thing. great ambience, terrible food. oh well.