Monthly Archives: November 2007

Inemuri

I’ve been coming across a lot of articles on sleep - or lack of sleep - lately. The latest one I read from the BBC didn’t reveal anything that I don’t know about yet, but towards the end it did talk about inemuri:
Napping at work isn’t acceptable in the UK, but in Japan dozing anywhere [...]

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Non-fiction: Rationed

I’ve returned to Minneapolis; although I rested too much and did too little at home, I won’t deny wanting to return immediately. My mother made congee, faan tuen, pecan tartlets, and so on. The faan tuen was especially toothsome; I had been thinking about it for months, of the tea-boiled eggs, the fluffy shredded dried [...]

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DIY Kotatsu #3: Heat Sources

Yesterday I was at Target and noticed a whole row of humidifiers and space heaters. There was an amazing variety of space heaters: ceramic, fan-style, ones for houses, ones for rooms. There also was a wide range of prices, from rather affordable to not-so affordable.Some people have written to me that they have used space [...]

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