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Name: Jamie // ジェイミー
誕生日：1980年8月5日
しし座・B型・185ｃｍ・アメリカ人
Leo・B+・6ft・American

今場所：東京
Current location: Tokyo, Japan
今仕事：漫画アシスタント:月刊雑誌ジャンプSQで「新テニスの王子様」
コラムニスト：朝日ウイークリー(毎月最後の日曜日のみ)で「Walking Tokyo」
女優：「ASAHI　POP’N　PRESS」　週間番組：毎週土曜日連載ナビゲーターとして出演
「先読みJUMP BANG!」許斐先生のアシスタントとし出演
他：モデルなど
Occupation: Manga artist: "New Prince of Tennis" serialized in monthly manga magazine JUMP SQ
Columnist: Asahi Weekly "Walking Tokyo" column on the last Sunday of every month
Acting: Weekly program "Asahi Pop'n Press" main cast
"Saki Yomi Jump Bang!" appeared as Konomi-sensei's assistant
Various
Other: Various other work + interviews
将来夢：漫画家・写真家・女優・世界の平和の張本人
Future job: Mangaka, Photographer, Actress, Supporter of world peace.

東京に住んでいるアメリカ人です☆
Hi, my name is Jamie. I'm originally from America, but now I live in Tokyo, Japan. I work as a manga assistant for Prince of Tennis right now, as well as write a column for Asahi Weekly, host a TV show, and various other projects!☆

よろしくネ ♪ ジェイミーと呼んでください ☆ アメリカ人ですが2004年9月から日本に住んでいます。芸術が大好きです！未来に漫画家になりたいんですにゃ！

Please call me Jamie, or Hi-chan is okay if you feel like it. ^^ Yoroshiku! ☆ I'm American through and through, but in Sept'04 I moved to Tokyo, Japan, in order to pursue my dreams. I love Tokyo, and I look forward to spending a long and fun life here! =^_^=

This blog is mainly in english, but also will have some japanese here and there. Most of the entries here are going to be about my daily life in Tokyo, whether that is seeing friends, attending an event, taking a vacation, or whatever else may come up. I post a lot of photos, as is probably apparent, and I love comments! ^^ For lj users: please feel free to friend me and always feel free to comment, whether you know me or not!
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24th-Feb-2010 10:12 pm - Doesn't it look yummy?
It's hard to keep an upbeat attitude tonight.. I'll try, but I just was really disapointed in someone today and it really got me down. I should be out right now, enjoying the lovely weather and being young, but instead I ended up with cancelled plans and feeling down. I hate that, don't you? It's not anyone's fault but I still hate it. I will turn those feelings into something productive as soon as I post this stuff, though. There is always work hanging over my head these days, as well as OTHER things, so I guess now is better than another time, right?

But *sigh*.

Ale and Ang did come over and we made Yakisoba for lunch, which was great! I love you guys ♥ It's friends that make the whole world go round, right? It really, really is. Without friends, I wouldn't be able to enjoy life like I do (And I do).

Btw, as per my body self-improvement goal this year, I've started doing yoga (almost) every day. I don't know why it took me this long, because after just a few days I feel such a difference in my body. It's all at home with a dvd, but I feel so much more energy and it's like my body can actually move. As if someone oiled my joints. Where has yoga been all my life? Or rather, why wasn't I listening?

Of course, maybe the change also has to do with the weather not being freezing the last few days. Spring, have you really come? Please never go away! But I do want to think that it's the yoga.

( Some random pictures.. )

And by the way, I want to be in love. Romantic, passionate love, not the friendly kind. You know what I mean? I didn't make it a goal this year, but I do want it,w ith all my heart.
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30th-Dec-2009 12:27 pm - Nanchatte?
なんちゃって(nanchatte)="just kidding," "oops, hehe," etc..

That's why I had to try this Nanchatte cola! It looks like a bottle of tabasco sauce (which I don't like anyways.. I can't stand vinegar), but it tastes like... I'm not sure, but a little bit like peppers mixed with chemicals mixed with soda water. In other words, like complete crap, lol. Not highly recommended, but just another example of the strange things that appear randomly in Japan. LOL

In other news, I saw Avatar yesterday with a friend... OMG I am totally in love! Love love love! I want to go live on Pandora too and learn the ways of the Na'vi. Neytiri is my hero <3













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9th-Nov-2009 06:51 pm - The Vampire cafe!
This is the last of my posts for the day! =D

So, the final stop for Saturday (it was a full day!) was the Vampire cafe! Yeah... the Vampire Cafe.

Which is... exactly like it sounds! A kitchy cafe decorated to look all dracula and bloooooooood. Something a lot of people I know back home would like XD

Honestly, it was interesting, but.. well, too smoky. I would gladly go back if it was nonsmoking, but since that isn't going to happen and it was utterly miserable from the smoke of the drug-addicted girl behind us (they ARE drugs), and the chain-smoking guy next to us, I won't be going back.

However, whenever Tokyo is made smoke-free, I am so coming back! Here's to the future!!

( But some pictures Dracula himself would (not) be proud of XD )
9th-Nov-2009 06:29 pm - And what???
You know how you hear about all of those random strange vending machines in Japan? Well, this one sells canned soups.

Canned ramen, oden, curry, chicken soup.... all sorts of strange things!!

( Read more... )

It's in Akihabara, by the way... Think you can find it? It's kind of hiding in plain sight ^_~

I wouldn't have even known about it myself if it wasn't for my friend Patrick, from Otaku2.com! He introduced it to us when he guest starred on Pop'n Press! I HIGHLY recommend his book, too!! The Otaku Encyclopedia!! It's full of nearly everything that an Otaku would want to know! I really loved it!! (I'll do a really good review of it eventually!)
23rd-Oct-2009 03:31 am - Hime-ringo...
A few days ago... actually on my only day off in weeks but I digress... I was out with Mami and we went looking for cinnamon sticks (my new health food of choice, lol).

And we found these----> Apples!! Mini apples!! Granted, my hand is a little bit bigger than most girls, but it's smaller than most guys... and look how tiny the apple is in comparison!! They're so cute!!!!

They are called Hime-ringo ("Princess Apples") in Japanese, and according to Mami they are very popular! I don't know how I've managed to go so long without seeing one but.. ^o^;;

Anyways, they taste... drumroll.... exactly like apples! =D Yum!!! I like the little package.... cute and bite-sized! (If they used this apple on the cover of Twilight, what would that say about B&E's love? LOL don't listen to me!)

I love talking about new (and/or weird) food! Not to mention, it makes for a short and easy psot while I'm at work! So I don't fall into the habt of neglecting my lj. Plus, I love to let my friends know I'm alive.. and I get to know the people that comment on my lj that I've never met. I wish that I could meet all you guys one day! Promise me you'll come to my concert if I ever have one by some chance! =D
22nd-Oct-2009 02:29 am - Azuki (red bean) flavored pepsi?!
When I saw it, I grabbed it right away.. and then put it right back.

Then I grabbed it again. I had to try it!

But in the end, what was I thinking? It was a waste of calories... I don't even like azuki very much! Okay, it didn't really taste like Azuki, but oh well... ^^;;

One more wacky Pepsi flavor down for the count! I'd personally like to see a fall Pumpkin-spice flavored variety... What flavor would you like to see?

*goes back to work*
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16th-Oct-2009 01:18 am - Oh, Harajuku...
More on my "wtf Japan??!?!" posts, lol.

A few days ago, I was en-route to Shinjuku and passed through Harajuku (NOT on the way, don't ask, lol) on my bike, and I saw this ad on the side of La Foret (a huge clothing mall).

Is it just me, or is there something.. odd.. about the model's dress?

My first thought was, "who would ever wear that?"

My second thought was, "....but I kinda want one...."

What's your first (and second) thought? XD

(Yes, it is a giant monster mouth on the dress there..) XD
14th-Oct-2009 07:46 pm - It's really fall, isn't it?
I haven't been writing in my journal a lot... Sorry about that! I always mean to, and then get off doing something else. There is a lot on my plate, and it's sometimes hard to get it done without a desk! =D Yeah, you heard me! I need to buy a desk, but I'm so picky. I want something unusual, so I guess that it's really up to me to build myself one (when I have time). That said, anybody have any good examples of cool desks?

Honestly, I want to post a bunch of pictures before I go back to the manga studio tomorrow. Maybe it will help clear my mind so that I can use my last night before work on my own projects!! (^o^)/ ( That said, pictures.... )

Well, there is a lot of work to get done!! When I get pictures from people, I will post Thanksgiving goodness!! *^-^*

....Even better, there is (real) Thanksgiving next month! =D I can't wait!! It's likely that I will be at work again, but I'll make sure to get together with someone at some time and at least eat out if not at home!
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12th-Oct-2009 01:09 pm - I heart Japan?
I saw this in a random store a few weeks ago.
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( Up close... )

I mean, err.. I wonder what they were trying to say with this display, lol.

(temporarily screening comments because I am getting TONS of porn spammers commenting recently)
14th-Sep-2009 03:34 am - Reading in the loo?? =D
Oh Japan..... =D

I found the greatest thing in a bookstore last weekend!

A horror novel written on toilet paper!!! There are two "volumes"... and I am SO going to read them.. while in the bathroom. Now if only they had a kanji dictionary printed on toiler paper to accompany it! =D

( I'm completely serious!! )
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