Chinoda

To my beloved Jai from FFXI on Caitsith server; For close to 5 years we had a relationship that cannot be placed into words. A relationship that for all intents and purposes was friendly, and probably something more than I cared to admit. I trained you in FFXI, and helped you when you first started out. Then I watched as you surpassed me, and grew. and grew... and grew. You were my best friend online, no doubt. Kind of funny how that happens from going from total strangers to talking maybe once a week to always looking for each other online. The years passed, and it felt like something shifted after I made a small joke of inconsequential ma

So I have just arrived back from a quick excursion to San Francisco and have wonderful news. I will be receiving my work visa in a few days and then will be returning to Tokyo to start my job at my new real estate office! I am very excited to finally have completed such a big step to accomplishing my dreams of being an Interpreter/Translator! This job will have me working to help translate for English speaking customers as well as for my fellow Japanese co-workers who do not know English past the business level. I already have a home out there, a beautiful two-story house; I rented it while having fun in my three months of running around, a

Well, Art has taken a backseat to my career gols of becoming a Japanese Translator, sadly. I love to doodle still, and do so in my spare time. You should see my poor notebooks, haha~ I recently went on a trip to Japan for three months, and spent some wonderful times there making friends and going places while studying the language. It definitely changed me a lot, coming back here I felt I knew where I truly belonged now. It's a weird feeling to go somewhere and feel like you fit... everything feels right. I have been in this town now for 14 years, and it feels stifling, a burden. I'm no fan of the majority personalities that inhabit the tow