She comes over and hands me several pages that look like this:
She says, Could you translate them for my husband's work? They read something like this:
I don't have the slightest idea what that means in English...much less Japanese.
Also, end-of-the-year insanity is in the air. Right now the Forget-the-Year parties keep the streets and bars filled until all hours of the night. I had a Christmas party for work Saturday night and barely survived the train ride home. The next day I had to go into the city early for work and the streets looked like the day after the Apocalypse. No other living creature was out -- it was just me and endless piles of vomit, pools of blood, torn clothes, broken jewelery and all the cigarette butts you could possibly imagine. Damn.
Here is a picture I took on the train ride home from my party. Everyone looked this way.
