Fun bits

[cjsmith]

It's weird when I go on a fairly brief trip and after I get home I start *missing* stuff.

I want to wander into someplace and hear someone who is paying just about zero attention to me or to anyone else call out nasally, "Irashaimasseeeeeeeeeee."

I want to watch five passengers AND all their luggage for three days fit jovially into a cab and zoom off.

I want mochi. At least that's what my coworker tells me they are called. The bean paste things.

I want to square dance to someone who says "reft arremande".

I want to get kissed on the head by a dragon.

I want to ride a subway with two full-color flat-screen displays over each door, one running ads and one spelling out the station name three different ways and diagramming how many minutes to the following stations and showing a picture of exactly which cars, in this next station, will pull up next to stairways.

I want prewarmed moist hand towels presented to me before each meal.

I want to watch a couple of friends greet each other, having a brief but animated conversation while bobbing up and down between about thirty and forty-five degrees off the vertical -- never once standing all the way up -- looking happy as clams.

I want to coax a semi-wild cat into letting me scritch him.

Ah, travel. Sometimes I recognize just a few more of the good bits after I've returned home.

Comments

[firecat]

I'm reading a book about relocating to Japan (just as a fantasy, I'm not really planning to relocate) and the author, who has lived in both Japan and the US, mentions how she misses the expected phrases such as "Irashaimasseeeeeeeeeee" when she is in the US.

I could get behind the prewarmed moist hand towels.

Mochi-wrapped ice cream is available at many Japanese restaurants and also at Trader Joe's. Num.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I could get into fantasizing about relocating. There are things about Japan I would hate if I had to live there long, but imagining it from the perspective of a one-time tourist is very fun.

I like that icon!!

[firecat]

Thanks! teal7 made it for me. It is supposed to be a depiction of my interests "purple, personality typing"

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It is therefore your "purple personality, typing"? :-)

[firecat]

Clearly!

I like it because I really used to have a manual typewriter like that, which I used constantly.