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Date: 03 September 2010 00:00:20
So once again I find myself a fish out of water in a foreign country. In these situations my naturally occurring social awkwardness becomes weaponized. A darwinian mechanism that pre emptively steers me from embarrassment.
There is a certain idealized Englishness that I muster in these circumstances. The first word I learn in any new language is generally "thank you". The second of often "sorry".
Japan is humid. The people are friendly. I arrived jet lagged, the gajin face of tiredness. There was a sign in the airport for "pet hotel". My ability to parse both language and events, has been somewhat afflicted by the density of memes here.