Yesterday was the autumnal Equinox, and I'd like to share something.
Due to its rampant commercialism; the books and movies, the toys, the slew of television programs, I think we've forgotten this holiday's true meaning. You see, folks, Autumn Equinox is not about presents, or cookies, or the sun being directly over the earth's equator. No. It's about love.
Also, Halloween came early this year. That's right; one of my coworkers asked me if I could whip up a short presentation about Halloween.
"For October?" Says I.
"No, no. For tomorrow," says she.
"Oh," says I.
Halloween just happens to be my favorite holiday, so I had already been planning just such a lesson, and even had the foresight to bring a costume from home. Coming from Vegas, there was really only one choice as to who I would be.
Finally, it was my brother's birthday the other day. I sent him a sarubobo(baby monkey doll-very popular in my area of Japan), and he sent me a picture he drew of me. He's pretty talented. Hopefully someday he'll have better models;)
Japanese word for the day:
Metcha-metcha: messy or in shambles-perfectly describes:my blog entries; my Japanese; my sink after removing the Halloween makeup.
Favorite Quote of current book:
'I could hear a lot of words often repeated; queer words, for there were many nationalities in the crowd... amongst them were...Satan...hell...and...something that is either "werewolf" or "vampire"...I must ask the Count about these superstitions.' -Jonathan Harker, from: Dracula
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