I'm hard to live with

Text from my American girlfriend, on year six in Japan. For real, you have no idea.

Doing anything medical in America even with robust insurance (a non-given) can be a logistical nightmare.

Don't tell me it's boring
Or basic
Or mid
Today's lunch includes

Asking my girlfriend what she wants for her birthday

Shoutouts to right-wing-propoganda-masquerading-as-popular-entertainment Bayverse straight-up having the Autobots perform a black ops dispatch of an Iranian (oh, sorry, "Middle East"; one of the worst captions of all time) nuclear site in 2011's loathsome Dark of the Moon, by the way

Sadly more relevant today than it was in 1985.

Murder mystery party night. Gf and I were 1920s exotic tea purveyors with secret pasts. Ran around doing a translatic accent all night talking about the fine "Jen-may-cha" I'd acquired during my travels

There's currently an irreconcilable rift between 7-11 locations over whether these tofu cake bars go with sweets or health snacks

Pick a side; no one shall be granted the luxury of ambivalence in the coming war

To be completely and shamefully honest

Bought years ago but have beem actively reading it during lunch breaks since changing jobs, and I cannot recommend it enough.

I was debating translating 刺さりそうなところ as "ideas that resonate" earlier, but then Judy Wakabayash herself jumped out to smack the keyboard out of my hand for changing register

So it turns out Google's AI summary will tell you any random keigo-essque nonsense you type into it is a real, used Japanese phrase. Here are a few of my favorite results: