User Profile

Hi, I'm the webmaster (IMO "webmistress" is sexist) of Kiwi-Musume.com. Due to a much busier schedule than before, I am no longer able to cope with the demands of a regular request list, but you can still see all the stuff I've done up to now, and if you really want something done, I may be able to translate it for you for a fee.

I come from Auckland, New Zealand, but at the moment I am teaching English in a little town in Japan. For the most part, my job's great, but some parts of it can drive me crazy, so quite a few of my posts can be pretty jaded and/or ranty. For the most part I enjoy it, though, even if the bad stuff is what tends to get blogged about more a fair bit of the time.

Next year (2009), I'm going to be getting a job in Tokyo as a professional translator, which is really exciting (in the immortal words of Fugdalena, Well, damn, this is what I've always, always wanted to do! (You should watch the part after that too, because it's hilarious.)) But it's also really scary, because I've never gotten a "real" job before, and I'm not the most socially adept person on the planet. But I'm studying Japanese and doing a bunch of stuff to get experience (the most notable and amusing being helping my friend with the script of a porno game) so hopefully I'll be OK.

This journal contains ramblings about my job (and life in Japan in general), music, shows etc that I'm into at the moment, random bitchiness (often about Ego Senseis - people who go around saying they're fluent in Japanese and then turn out to be hilariously crap at it - or a couple of other wastes of space who unfortunately are in my life) and other random shit.

This journal is now friends only. If you'd like to be added to my friends list, feel free to ask, either by replying to the post where my banner is or by sending a private message, but please note that I am far more likely to add you if I've spoken to you or seen you around before (for example in a community or in a friend's journal.)

The "friends only" banner was made from a screencap taken from this post (you can tell I didn't cap it myself, because I hate Kioku Fansubs with the fire of a thousand suns. :P) Feel free to use it, but make sure you credit myself and chochajin.

The name of my blog comes from a line on "Love Hina". This guy and girl who have sort of a love-hate relationship both take off suddenly when they fail their university entrance exams, and their housemates are wondering where they are. Someone says "Kakeochi ni chigai nai" ("They've eloped for sure") and this cool, hyper, food-obsessed girl pipes up and says "Kakeochi umai?" ("Is an elope yummy?") I like that for a line. I actually realised last year that I'd misremembered it and it was actually "Kakeochi wa umai no?" but my version's still linguistically viable, and much catchier. :D

For those on my flist, the Babysitters Club mood themes come from baseballchica03. If you want to gank them, the files are here, but please make sure you credit her.

Also, if you're wondering about any of my icons, I wrote a couple of lengthy posts describing them. If you'd like to use any of the icons in those posts, please credit me, unless it says I got it from someone else. If you'd like to use any that are not in either of those posts, please check with me first.

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