The REAL reason Miles hasn’t told us about his apparent upcoming trip to Japan!
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The REAL reason Miles hasn’t told us about his apparent upcoming trip to Japan!
Ah, I miss the tek room. It’s too bad I’m not a student anymore, or I’d come be the new Sarah.
Of course, you could do as I’m doing, and just figure that by the time you pull off going to Japan and get your webcomic started, you’ll be ready to take over the world and not having a specific plan won’t be a huge problem.
Make some connections while you’re studying the language, network with people, etc. Who’s to say you won’t find some employment in Japan, or someone to stay with? And if you really want to avoid culture shock you’ll need at least Quake 3.Oh yeah, and on doing your own webcomic:"Reverse perspective…stop seeing things through the eyes of the community, of ideology, of the family, of other people… My creativity, no matter how poor, is for me a far better guide than all the knowledge with which my head has been crammed." — Raoul Vaneigem"Even toned down like that, I couldn’t pass up the pothead Barbie doll."–Sean
what should be required reading for anyone who’s still in love with japan:The Enigma of Japanese Power by Karel van Wolferen
I will NEVER go back…You couldn’t pay me enough.
If you’re going to bomb Miles’ house with nuclear weapons, won’t that destroy all of Portland?Where will you live when you move back from Ellensburg? Or have you developed some kind of bizarre Older-Brother Super-Power that makes you impervious to radiation?
true, but you gave us a brief summary. We were kinda hoping Miles would do as he has done and shed some light on his motivations and the details of the trip.
you know, Miles may not have told you but I remember telling both of you about a month ago.
hmmmm….
me too…
Ditto–Alex
Steve, it appears Miles told everyone but you and I. This is clearly in violation of the Freedom of Fojar Information Act of 1999 and the SpaceNinja Disarmament Treaty of 1998. We can only respond by launching a nuclear assault on miles’ home.
for this, I can control my shakes long enough to press the goddamn red button!
He told me about it.
That’s hillarious!mmmmm….eating hotlips pizza while surfing the web in the tek room on my break…. sound familiar?
everything except for the "on my break" part…
When did you take that photo? I laughed helplessly.
I thought I mentioned this to steve, and hence that it would get back to you. I mention it obliquely in my .plan file. I definitely mentioned it in my post about crazy-mugger-broomstick-kid and his friends. But, for the record:
A few months ago, my cousin Carlos returned from Japan a married man. While he and his wife Haruko (who rules, btw) visited my family, he mentioned that he could connect me with the company he’d worked for in Tokyo. I would live in a cheap apartment and travel to various companies in the outlying suburbs, providing English conversational practice to employees of various corporations.
Now, Japan has always been a sort of pop-culture Elysium in my imagination, and though my ravenous appetite for anime and manga has waned in the past 5 years, the nation still has a sentimental glow for me.
Sentiment aside, it pays well, it’s a fascinating culture, I can learn some Japanese, and it’s far, far away from this star-spangled country that I bitch about so much. If I turned down this opportunity, I’d have to kill myself.
So, I’ve got my plane ticket and I’m getting on a Greyhound to LAX in the first week of August. Whoo!
WOW! That’s cool, man! Yes, we’d seen your hints dropped all over the place, but sadly, you gave NO details, so they were more frustrating than informative.
As for the photo, well, let’s just say you were drunk. Wait, maybe that was me.
Curses! Your Japan plan is better than mine!
1. take Japanese at PCC for two years and a get a good basis in the language
2. work a higher than minimum wage job for two years, instead of moving out and paying rent, live at home and put money in bank: at end of 2 years, $400 a month rent = about 9 grand saved for Japan trip!
3. get english speaking laptop and take with me so I won’t go completely insane. Include American games like Doom to fight culture shock.
4. spend year(term?) in study abroad program at Japanese school!
The only real flaw with this plan is the whole ‘live at home for another two years’ bit… I’d be doing it for good reason and I get along great with my parents and it wouldn’t suck too much, but still… I’d be down here in the basement til I was 22. Lame?
also not that cool is the whole when I get back from Japan, either continue schooling, start a new program, get into art school, etc… no plan yet for after: I imagine by the end of next year, with a year of Japanese and hopefully a year of doing my webcomic 3ish days a week, I’ll have a better idea of what I want to study and where I’m going for a career…