Workaholic Hostess

Friend comes back to life

2007-12-03T13:21:38Z

Best friend took level one of the Japanese Proficiency test yesterday. She disappeared from sight and ceased to exist a few weeks ago because she was focusing on studying. I'm sure she passed, but she thinks she failed miserably. We'll find out in...

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忘年会

2007-11-30T16:07:10Z

Just went to the first "bonenkai" (end of year drinking session) of the year. This was with an old, traditional, super masculine company I work for. I was the only girl. It was fun. One guy was stressing because he just had his health check up an...

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Locked out

2007-11-26T12:33:37Z

My building is cool because it's really safe. All windows have bars, there are locks everywhere, and it's impossible for some weirdo to break in. But today I left the house without my key, and got locked out. I sat outside for awhile waiting for s...

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25 words for hostesses

2007-11-24T15:11:07Z

Here are some more 25 words about hostesses I know. You’ve lived here for six years without a visa. You’re an amazing singer, but have the worst taste in men. And you’re insanely stuck up. You’ve lost a lot of weight recently. A Mongolian flower...

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25 words for customers

2007-11-24T14:47:09Z

I'll do a few 25 words for some customers. They don't really need any explanations: You have four kids by four mothers -- two of them foreign. You had money, looks, and youth during the bubble. You lost it all. You graduated from Tokyo Universit...

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25 words

2007-11-24T09:08:41Z

Boy am I glad I didn't drag that customer out to the Shinjuku bars on Thursday. I woke up on Friday feeling seriously beat, and I seem to have caught a cold. I'm going to steal Little Cat's (she's one of my Vox neighbors) ideas (which she has in ...

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Happy Thanksgiving

2007-11-21T03:00:26Z

To all you Americans out there, Happy Thanksgiving! Well Thanksgiving is tomorrow, but I'll probably forget that it's Thanksgiving then so I'll say it now and get it out of the way. We (my family before we broke up into a million pieces) used to ...

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Gokons

2007-11-18T15:53:25Z

Another quick post before going off to a shower then bed. I don't know if everyone reading this blog knows what a gokon is. It's a Japanese thing where a girl calls a bunch of girlfriends and a guy calls a bunch of his guy friends, then you go so...

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Christmas cake

2007-11-17T05:17:46Z

Went to see my favorite bar tender at my favorite bar last night. He was looking very tired, seemed thinner. He said he was working too hard and doesn't have a single day off all this month and all next month. And then he dropped the bomb on me. ...

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Otherwise smart girl accepts that she can't ever wear a swimsuit

2007-11-13T16:47:05Z

New profile picture! New design! Urban cityscape of the type I remember from living in the USA -- and why are shoes always hanging from the electric wires? I always wondered that. You never see any shoes hanging off of electric wires in Japan (I d...

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