air kisses suck

...i prefer real. this means that i usually end up smacking you one on the cheek when you were expecting a dry brush-by, but oh well.

went to a dinner party tonight and expected to be home before midnight, but you know how these things go. the host was a very tall czech friend of sherry's. i love being in european households. they always have the good food and tons of wine and bubbly, and andrea was no exception. she was exceptional in that her music selection was good. tall she is, this andrea. in fact, there were three andreas present tonight, and the tallest one was perhaps the tallest chinese person i've ever seen. alix introduced him to me while i had my back to them (stirring the risotto) and i turned around and just saw chest. he's from italy, and he must've thrived off the pasta or something.

not feeling drinky these days. had less than 4 bevies the whole trip in japan and just 2 glasses of bubbly tonight. i think the bikini night did me in. thinking about vodka continues to instill the dry-heave feeling. that's ok. some people are less happy about my partying ways than others (hi mom) so this little reprieve is welcome.

we had horse sashimi in japan. and emu sashimi. i prefer the emu. duc observed that the horse tasted exactly like you would imagine a horse to taste. a bit gamey.

i bought japanese toothpaste at the sapporo airport because of the whole melamine thing goin on with toothpaste manufactured in china, but little did i know that the baby rabbit holding a toothbrush on the tube wasn't your standard japanese cuteness, but actually indicated children's toothpaste. yuck. if there was a flavor that should not exist as part of a dental artifice, it's passionfruit.

heard from a former boy toy tonight. it's funny how people pop in and out of your life, like your feelings - not even feelings, inclinations - towards them remain constant despite the time lapse since the last time you spoke. his offer was not difficult to decline, but it makes me shake my head sometimes. i honestly wonder what people think of themselves, and of me. lots of things happen in very short time frames. it's no wonder that some people lose track of what it is they actually want, they don't even realize what they're doing day to day. get a grip.

i think my cold combined with the asthma almost killed me in japan, but i'm on the mend. don't go to hokkaido in the summer without arming yourself with beaucoup zyrtec and several inhalers. the clean air was a bonus, but i hadn't counted on the extreme pollen count, which is apparently as dangerous or more so than allergen cousins, pollution and smog.

doing the head nod while typing. sleep.