Today's the last day of winter break, so I'm just milling about the dorm, doing laundry and chatting it up with friends back home. I don't have much to report, really, though I am planning to do a post on the New Year's festivities I participated in thanks to a friend of mine and his very kind family.

Speaking of which, Happy New Years! I hope your year-end/year-beginning festivities were lively!

And I've decided to try and keep a Twitter account going for at least as long as I'm in Japan. I discovered a fairly easy way to send in "tweets" (updates) from my cellphone, so I'm hoping that during my day-to-day stuff I'll remember to take a few seconds and send out an update if I'm doing something neat. If you want to follow me, check out my account here: http://twitter.com/MasterKale.

P.S. Technical problems totally destroyed all the Japanese I'd typed up, so no translation this post :(

P.S. コンピューターの問題があったから、全部の打った日本語はなくならせられた。だから、翻訳がない ：（