http://scripts.mit.edu/~espeed/blog The random adventures of me, Erek Speed Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:13:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last time, I was sitting in my hotel contemplating my return to Japan. This time, I'm going to talk about the following week and my adventures finding an apartment. The Monday after I arrived I visited a realtors office so he could find me a place to live. I ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~espeed/blog/2009/10/20/return-to-japan-part-2/ I’m going to begin a series of posts to map out my entry into Japan and anything else interesting happens while I’m here.  Smaller updates get posted to twitter at http://www.twitter.com/melink14.  In general, everything I do is low traffic since I’m pretty low key but the things I do post ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~espeed/blog/2009/10/19/return-to-japan-part-1/ We're now chilling in Las Vegas.  We have a pretty sweet hotel but everything here is quite expensive.  The trip here wasn't too bad.  Here's a list of cool things I learned: Utah has people in airplanes that check your speed.  I want to be pulled over by an airplane. Utah also ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~espeed/blog/2009/08/27/road-trip-update-1/ I don't update my blog a lot so people don't read it.  When people do read it they think it's pretty lame.  That's all fine, the purpose of the blog is to provide updates to people who care when I have time. Since last time I graduated from MIT with a ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~espeed/blog/2009/06/23/an-update-in-the-dawn-of-summer/ Contrary to what the title may make you think, this post isn't about cheesy G rated movies on ABC which you might have watched during a better more simple time.  It's about my plans post school.  That golden time when I get to join the work force and become a ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~espeed/blog/2009/03/26/after-school/ It's a bit unfortunate that it's so easy to see how bad I've been about updating this blog.  A quick glance down to the last post shows almost a 7 month hiatus on my part.  With such a lapse in my main form of communication with other possibly interested lifeforms, ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~espeed/blog/2009/03/08/life-update/ It's been awhile since I posted which is unfortunate, but generally my day has consisted of: getting up, going to work, working, going out, sleeping, repeat.  This leaves little time for awesome blog posts.  Also, since I'm not out exploring like last year, my day is more routine and less ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~espeed/blog/2008/08/13/obon-week/ I've been in Japan for a bit now, and as I've subtly alluded to, I'm not sleeping on the streets.  Previously, I've mentioned that some sort of apartment exists, but I've not really gone into more detail than that.   The purpose of this post is to shed some light onto ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~espeed/blog/2008/07/31/living-conditions-in-japan/ I was going to write this awhile ago, but I broke my chair again.  They haven't replaced it yet, but there's a second hand shop below my apartment, so I bought a real chair there for about $10.  It's so amazing.  One of the best decisions I've made in my ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~espeed/blog/2008/07/12/how-to-be-a-foreigner-in-japan/ Another installment of my life in Japan. Narita is a pretty simple airport so I didn't have much trouble with it.  I changed about 100 dollars into yen, and then withdrew about 300 more from an ATM.  I did the cash exchange simply because you never know when an american bank ... http://scripts.mit.edu/~espeed/blog/2008/07/05/from-narita-to-my-apartment/