life related:
• watch some japanese tv everyday - i have a lot of yet-to-be-watched anime and j-drama. i also could use the listening practice.
• read something in japanese everyday - i have a shelf of unread manga and other japanese books. again, i could use the reading practice.
• come out as a post-mormon - a lot of people already know i'm not in the lds church anymore, but all too often i let people believe what they want because it's easier. of course, this is only really necessary with people who have always known me as mormon.
• come out as transgender - i've told my family, (now) ex-girlfriends, a few close friends, and the blogosphere. i could facebook status it, but that only handles facebook friends who check their news feed. i'm not yet sure how to be open / clear about who i am to other people without resorting to one-on-one serious talks.
• become quasi-vegetarian at the end of my 30-day vegetarian stint - i've lapsed twice (once, on accident with calamari that i thought was onion rings. the first bite told me otherwise. the second time was not exactly an accident—i ate ramen with shrimp powder. in my defense though, i didn't know there was shrimp powder in it until i had already prepared a full meal out of it). i'd like to limit myself to one serving of meat per day.
blog related:
• write the entire post, then pick a title - i don't want to stifle free-writing by locking myself in to a specific topic.
• たまに日本語で書く (write in japanese now and then) - ok, so this isn't a new idea. but i should recommit to it.
• pictures will be larger - that way you won't necessarily feel the need to click to enlarge a picture just to have an idea about what's going on.
god, i miss japan...
this is an old pic of me in kyoto. circa 2008.
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If you want any good post-mormon stuff and community resources try exmormon.org . I love the forums there, usually some good chatter going on and lots of people in Utah that meet together sometimes at the local starbucks and what not if you are interested.
Fill up on nuts and grains to get protein instead of animal sources, but make sure that they are whole grains and not filled with sugar. Basically American foods fail the consumer at every turn. If you don't make it yourself, you are gonna get fat and have problems. I know i did. white flour is pretty much the most evil thing next to high fructose corn syrup and high-sodium sauces. I don't know why more asians don't have heart problem with all that sodium in their diet. Do they get a large amount of potassium from something that i haven't thought of to offset the balance?
Japan is sort of okay, but maybe being in the boondocks isn't as great as it is in the big city, though it is a molka of a lot cheaper.
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