The Weary Gaijin: The Chronicles of Mr. Stuff

Greetings, y'all.

I believe that's the best phrase to kick this thing off with.

As most everyone who reads this probably knows, I've spent the last year and a half hoping, dreaming, half-assedly trying to one day live and work in Japan. Well, that dream has finally come true. As I write to you right now, I am sitting on the floor of the lobby of the Kansai International Airport in Osaka, thrumming away merrily on the keyboard of my laptop.

The last twenty eight hours have been fairly rough, mostly because I haven't slept for most of them. I was in the air for 18 of them. The rest were spent driving to, waiting on, or connecting to one of three different airports. Hell, I'm not done yet. I'm about to get ready to leave on the hourly shuttle, which will take me to the OKAT bus terminal. From there, I'll take a bus three and a half hours to Yonago, the city where I'm going to be living and working. Once I get there, somebody is picking me up, taking me to my hotel, and dropping me off. Upon arrival, I plan on getting the keys to my room and sleeping. LOTS of sleeping. As in "the only thing that has a snowball's chance in hell of getting me up is New Years celebrations, aka Tanabata" sleeping. I'm feeling the pain right now, and I've got several more hours to go.

So goes blog entry number one. This is just to get things started. Once I get some rest behind me, I'll have pictures, detailed descriptions of nearly everything, and lots of other exiting things to share. Stand by for entry number two sometime in the near future.
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