Feb 18, 2009 - 2:21 pm
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Took another day off work, this time to go to the hospital. I’d been sick since last week and had been avoiding going there. To me, especially in Japan, visiting the hospital is a last resort measure only.
The health care system is very different than in Canada. Local medical clinics and family doctors are the [...]
Feb 12, 2009 - 9:45 am
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Picked up a mild case of food poisoning this weekend. I’m almost positive it wasn’t from the Oyster Festival, as Kyoko and I shared all the food we bought. It might have been from the take-out sushi we ordered on Monday. She and I have pretty different tastes when it comes to [...]
May 16, 2008 - 7:24 pm
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I would consider myself an “Intermediate Beginner” when it comes to running. I logged about 350 kilometers between May and September last year, culminating with a 10K race at the Tazawako Marathon. Then… I stopped running. I ran only one more time in 2007, after I had to find a new job, [...]
May 10, 2008 - 12:12 am
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I started running again a couple nights ago. I ran a lot last spring / summer, around 20-30 kilometers a week. Participated in my first 10K race last September too. But I had to move a month after that, and then winter hit, and the town I moved to has a definite [...]
May 4, 2008 - 6:58 am
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My name is Andrew, and I have dandruff.
Watching my dandruff float gently down the stream.
I’ve had it for about a month now, and for the life of me I just can’t get rid of it. I’ve been using this Japanese dandruff shampoo, but it just seems to be causing more dandruff if anything. [...]
Mar 24, 2008 - 6:53 pm
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Been a pretty hectic 2008 so far. Work has been pretty busy, making quite a few trips here and there around Miyagi, Yamagata, Iwate, and Akita, and enjoying sharing my apartment. I’ve also had to make 6 trips to the dentist over the past 3 months to fix a problem that some stupid [...]
Sep 16, 2007 - 1:05 pm
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