mokudekiru

This week I moved into my new room in Santa Cruz and unpacked my 67 pounds of luggage for the summer.

My bookcase came in handy, and I documented it with my iPhone:

These happen to be right in the entry to my room in my apartment — so if you could say a single room has a genkan (an entryway, and in Japanese houses this is where all the shoes are kept) this is my genkan.

About a day after emailing this photo to Noam, a wonderful thing happened. This picture came into my inbox:

FYI now that I’m in Santa Cruz, I might have more pictures/updates about that. I know, crazy to think that I might interrupt a sentence coming out of my mouth and say something that’s *not* about Japan, but hey, it could happen.

In short, there will be a lot more of this:

and this: