goodnight

[dragonlady7]

So Z comes in from the porch and is puttering around. "Isn't it your bedtime?" I ask.
"Yeah," he says, and in a few minutes, he says, "I'm goin'a bed." He comes into my room, and I turn my face up to him, expecting a good night kiss.
He holds out his hand. I look at it in some confusion.
"Gimme five," he says.
I give him five, and he returns it. I look up at him in bewilderment. "But I wanted a good-night kiss," I say.
He looks wounded. "Don't you wanna gimme five?"

Yes, Z and I now, it seems, exchange hand-slaps at bedtime.

I guess it took too much sentiment out of him to admit that he'd miss me* if I ran away to Japan.


*but not so much that he wants me not to do it.

I am still considering it.

Comments

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

Well, before you do it, you should talk to my brother. He spent a month there as part of a teacher exchange. He LOVED it, but I don't know how he'd feel about being there longer than a month. And he's one of those people that gets along no matter where he is, even if the language is so different it's like being on Mars. And the culture. He said a lot of people kept asking him if it's true Americans eat in their cars. That seemed to blow their minds.

Another thing to consider: Have you seen The Grudge?

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I studied Japanese for three years in college. I also took conversational Japanese. I don't speak more than a couple of broken phrases now (i can say "I have studied Japanese" but I can't say "I have never been to Japan), but I am well aware of a number of their cultural differences.

I have never heard of The Grudge-- is it a movie or a book or an Internet phenomenon or what?

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

It's a creepy movie by Takashi Shimizu (a remake of one of his other movies) that I just saw last week. Even though the plot is ridiculous and full of holes, it creeped me out. (It takes place in Tokyo.) I always seem to watch these kinds of movies right before I go to bed.

My brother is one of those people that can get along with anyone, anywhere. I think he got 100% of those genes and I got none. That's why I only live 90 miles from where I grew up. Even that was culture shock to me.

[tehta.livejournal.com]

Go do it! I would, if I wasn't so damn tall.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Tall? That's all that's holding you back? Height?
I'm only five seven but I'm 180 pounds on a normal day, and a good 30 of that is boobs. I have boobs the size of people's heads. I would be a complete freak over there. Not that I'm not a complete freak over here...

[tehta.livejournal.com]

Well, height and assorted visa/overeducation issues. But height is definitely what has prevented me from visiting it as a tourist. I still remember all the Thai girls giggling at me when I visited *there*.