general update

i went home to oregon for three weeks in december and january. it was intense.

i'm back in japan now, working and job hunting. i plan to move to tokyo at the end of march. i have some good prospects, but nothing is definite yet.

it's time to start working on an eventual exit strategy, though. my visa expires when i'm thirty but i can't imagine still being here then.



in the meantime, things are pretty good here. sometimes i get lonely, and sometimes i get homesick, but there are two sides to that coin. i have a lot of time and space here -- for thinking, creating, exploring, reading, studying, and general doing. and i have friends here, too. it's just never going to quite be home, you know what i mean?