The importance of tea-time and how it's killing me

So if you were to recently ask me what I am up to on my days off from teaching, touring or being a general hindrance to the populace of Shimane, besides the obligatory sleeping, eating, playing the harmonica etc...one of my first answers would be drinking tea! I've always felt that tea-time has been an integral part of Japanese culture but boy little did I know how much of a motivational force it can be.

In Shimane, I turn into a tomato everynight

So living in the country side has many benefits. Getting boiled alive every night is not one of them.

I'm a narcissist but at least you can't see my underwear!

 FINALLY POSTED PICTURES!!
Fashion dilletantes will tell you that Tokyo has replaced Paris as the fashion capital of the world...and I gotta agree. It's not that Tokyoites dress any better than Parisian, it's just that the people here,hm..how do I say it in a good way, are more er, adventurous with their fashion. What I mean by this is that it seems that EVERY kind of fashion out there is on display here ALL the time. The definition for adventurous is school girls who shorten their formal school skirts to MICRO LOOK AT ME AS I BEND OVER TO GRAB MY BAG WHEEE skirts.

Props to however took this pic. (This means I did NOT take this picture)

Aanyways, it's not just school girls who are adventurous, salary men can also be quite adventurous - like the 40 year something salary man dressed in purple with an afro i saw a while ago. God I wish I had a picture but boy the only way I can describe him is he was super-righteous! Wherever that guy is, you know he's probably single-handedly working to bringing disco back!

Anyways, to enlighten you on Japanese fashion is not the point of this blog entre! There are books written about that stuff! Rather, this is for me to show off the various fashions that I've purchased in Tokyo! Hurrah for narcisism!