Back from a sweet vacation to visit the Foxes in kyoto, did the full temple circuit and lots of chilling and ridiculous ammounts of going out. Highlights: Going to a club in Osaka called Pure, litening to good hip hop, a frat designed library room with a pool table, felt like i was back at williams for real. Helping that feeling alongthere was like one japanese dude there. Will always remember the albatross lady. Also going to the temple of the many gates, damn there were many. Christmas dinner great as always, got down and funky with some sweet acapella. gotta keep that shit up next year in NY. writing of which, i think ill come back to NYC and live a while, maybe try my hand at editing and trying to survive. had some really great surfing this weekend and last, in the middle of winter- when your head freezes from the wind you just dive under the water to warm up. its amazing. going to be hard to leave that and a lot of things here. hopefully ill become jedi at japanese in 6 months and be invited back as a diplomat. here are some photos from kyoto: the monkey of monkey mountain, and a photo of toodaiji because it's just necessary.