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Or rather I hate that no one ever calls this guy by his name. Either one, first or last. It's always just "chef". Never "Chef Johnson" or "Chef Bob". Every single time it's "chef". Without fail. Did everyone on Enterprise get together and decide to never learn the guy's name? I'd understand...

One of my very good BBS friends and I were talking about this. I'll withhold her name for now to see if she's brave enough to out herself. She seemed to imply that she had not and found it amusing that I have. This thread was basically started on a dare, so we'll see how far it goes. So, to...

I live in a small town. It's literally just one intersection, and then some houses down one of the roads. There aren't any farms nearby, none that I am aware of anyway (and I've been around this area for 8 years now). Which is why the appearance of one stray chicken over the past couple weeks...

I'm not really talking about hair color, height, weight or genetic conditions. I'm talking more about interests and personalities. I ask because I have a lot in common with my mom. We're really similar people who react to situations about the same way, have about the same disposition and views...

At this point I am seriously considering the possibility that I am living in someone else's pre-scripted situation comedy. Even from my perspective, I have to admit the whole thing is pretty funny. Okay, first, the basics: I am in Japan now and will return to California in April. I have had a...

Okay, so I have (once again) lost a sizable amount of weight in recent years, and it's starting to get to the point where everyone I know can't help but point it out in daily conversation. It does kind of make me feel uncomfortable, but I know they are only being nice by doing so. It is...

One trait of mine that I've become increasingly aware of is that I am something of an affectionate person. When I like someone I tend to show it, whether it is as a family member, friend, or something more. I believe that I inherited this from my parents, who were always very open and loving as...

I have seriously been sick off and on since mid-October. I've probably been sick more days in the past three months than in the past decade combined. It's apparent to me that my immune system is having difficulty adapting to the germs on an entirely new continent. But it really doesn't help that...

It's true, I'm rarely in a state I'd call anger. Annoyed, sure. Downright irritated sometimes. But it blows over soon enough and nothing comes of it. Right now, however, I'm pissed (hence the italics). And I think I'm only partially justified in being so. I don't know. The reason for my anger...

For those who don't know, I spent the first part of this year in Japan as an elementary school language teacher. I've been back in California since the end of July for summer vacation, but that ends tomorrow and I'll be back on a plane on Monday so that I can teach the fall and winter semesters...

And she's twelve, so let's not go anywhere we shouldn't. I've been working as a language (English) teacher in Japan now for a few weeks. Initially, I thought I would be teaching older students. But my company employees a number of people who don't speak Japanese, so they wanted to send those...

I recently checked out this show and enjoyed it quite a bit. I hadn't come across many discussions about it before I started watching and knew next to nothing about it going in, which I liked. I haven't watched a single episode of Babylon 5 (yet) or Heroes, but just from my time around this...

I have a lot to say at the moment, but I am really still processing it myself. All I know now is that I am confused. I really don't know what to believe. As many of you know, one of my Japanese penpals fell in love with me a few years ago, and I came to love her back. For more than two years...

Considering it's only been a little more than a month since I returned from my trip and set about trying to find a way to return for a longer stay, it didn't take long at all for me to find something. It just felt that way. But the wait is over, I now know for sure that I've been offered a...

I'll be gone for two weeks. I'm headed to Tokyo for two weeks. I majored in Japanese and have been studying it for a long time, but have never actually been there, so it'll be quite an interesting trip to say the least. I'll be meeting up with friends there almost every day. A few I have met...

I can't believe it either. Is everyone fully sick of me by now? Excellent. Hurray, I think. I signed up when I was 15 and just starting high school, and now I'm 22 and a full on college graduate. Not to mention the two or three dramatic personality changes I've gone through. Yuck. Anyways, I'm...

But apparently I look like I do. It used to happen infrequently, but these days, pretty much every time I'm in a book, CD or video related store, at least one person will mistake me for a salesperson and start asking me to help them. I'm not really sure why. I don't dress in a way that...

Necessary information: I am not a woman. But MSN messenger seems to think I am. Every day when I start it up, it presents me first with a totally unnecessary welcome window. I never spend very much time looking at it, but I usually manage to catch a glimpse of what is on it while I'm closing...

There is something seriously wrong with the memory center of my brain. I'm starting to get nostalgic for parts of my life that I consciously know I hated living at the time. It's weird, this has never happened to me before. Maybe it was inevitable, I don't know. But it offends me to feel the...

Note: look away from avatar before answering. Please. I am going to suggest on this day that, yes, I am quite awesome as a matter of fact. I submit into evidence that I have just completed the final undergraduate final exam that I will ever take, which makes me a certified college graduate...