Small favor to ask: I'm headed to Japan and one thing I'm a little worried about is my lack of any Japanese language proficiency whatsoever. I obviously like talking to people and getting their sense of their place, and want to see Japan from the point of view from peers around my age who live there who work as artists or writers or designers or just straight up good people. If there's anyone you think would be up for showing me around a little bit, tell them dinner and drinks are on me.

Likewise, as of late a lot more people are reading this blog than ever before, and I know that blogger doesn't make it easy to anonymously say hi and I haven't had much time to respond to comments. I've had a lot more time to write lately and it's been helpful for me to write up what happens here, getting back in touch with my more restless youth when I used to write every day, needed to write every day. I'm even going to do an interview here with someone and if it works out keep doing that... Not sure exactly what blogging is but I'm getting comfortable with it. I even just heard from one my best friends I haven't heard from in years thanks to this. In any case, if you are one of those complete strangers who's reading, drop me a line sometime and let me know if I'm being overindulgent, or boring, or interesting, or what have you, and if the travel writings are something you'd like me to continue doing.

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