Short post (this week class really starts and it looks like I'm going to be BU-SY!): Had a fantastic weekend in Tokyo. Took the bus, enjoyed the weather & actually went to church for Easter. Bought tickets home (more later)!!

Go see (rent, buy) the movie "Bowling for Columbine" asap if at all possible. I found it deeply disturbing but an echo of how I feel and what I have been reading. It is really well done and won the Academy Award for Documentaries this year. A really important probe into current American culture (specifically gun violence), if you ask me. It was also rather akward watching it in a Japanese theater. Nothing like exiting after the movie while everyone else stares at you (that's not new) trying to guess whether you're one of the "gun-toting, quick-to-shoot" types of Americans (and in Japan, this movie only exacerbates an already solid presumption about Americans).

Also new: try the link to my little brother's journal at the left to see how the other half lives. Ok, kind of kidding-kind of not... Brook's adventures are way out there and utterly separate from how most of us spend our days. Go Coast Guard!! uh, go Navy, too, eh Brook?

I'll try to write more later on in the week.