As I type, I have about 4 hours left before my last Japanese final exam ever. Japanese exams aren’t fun; they tend to suck. Ja, Ganbarimasu!
Well it is certainly nice to get things started. After finishing my senior thesis on identity construction in Facebook, I felt that getting a blog was sort of a mandatory thing for STS and internet sociology nerds. I’ll hopefully use this site to comment on published STS research and news, but the main focus is my soon to be Japanese odyssey.
As of right now, I still have no clue where I will be living in Japan. I asked for Sapporo or any urban area in Hokkaido. Hopefully they got the idea. But who knows, with JET you can be placed practically anywhere. There’s this nasty rumor going around that JET places a few ALTs on this little volcanic island off the coast of Tokyo (Izu chain I think) that emits dangerously high levels of sulfuric gas. Aside from the occasional evacuations, rotting egg odor, and periodic lava flows, I hear its people are quite hospitable. I’m probably exaggerating a bit. Who knows.
This is also my second time to live Japan, though this time I will be earning money, and considering what I have been pulling in before, quite a lot of money (3.6million yen). And you know what that will mean! A full on attack against student loans.
So anyways, as you can tell this blog is under construction. Being a bit on the optimistic side, I hope to update often, cataloging all the fun and weirdness Japan is about to share with me, and vice versa. So stay tuned.
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