MellsBells’ Friends and Family Vox 2008-07-23T12:34:00Z tag:vox.com,2006:6p00e398f2fecf0004/explore/friends-and-family/library/posts/ Semi-Adventures in Mediocrity etc. tag:vox.com,2008-07-23:asset-6a00e3989fddbd000400fa968aa3de0003 2008-07-23T03:31:49Z 2008-07-23T12:34:00Z Workaholic Hostess http://withoutshoes.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom If you who read Japanese, maybe you read this blog (I have a link to her on the right). Written by a girl you might call a hooker, who's worked in various different types of brothels, etc. And she blogs about it! Most recently she worked in an ima...

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]]> IndyMac, two sides tag:vox.com,2008-07-21:asset-6a00e3989fddbd00040100a7ea8875000e 2008-07-21T16:08:59Z 2008-07-21T16:31:04Z Workaholic Hostess http://withoutshoes.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom So yet another section of the economic pyramid has crumbled. IndyMac went bust. One of my mother's girlfriends had her life savings in there. She's Japanese, and she used to be married to an American man. They bought a condo in LA, and sold it an...

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]]> Caroline Pover Sucks tag:vox.com,2008-07-21:asset-6a00e3989fddbd000400fa968a04770003 2008-07-21T06:08:52Z 2008-07-22T06:44:13Z Workaholic Hostess http://withoutshoes.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Japan can be a lonely place for foreign women sometimes. Wouldn't it be great if there was some supportive organization where frustrated foreign women could go for support? I know of one organization that you should definitely stay away from. It...

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]]> the felines tag:vox.com,2008-07-20:asset-6a00e3989fddbd00040100a7ea1117000e 2008-07-20T05:48:05Z 2008-07-20T15:35:41Z Workaholic Hostess http://withoutshoes.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Samkins Norinori Seijikat

This is Osamu. He's only 12 years old, but I think he's dying. He's lost a lot of weight, his fur has lost its glossiness, and he throws up almost every day. When I pick him up he feels like paper. But he's still got the handsomest little face, an...

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]]> (*-*)... tag:vox.com,2008-07-20:asset-6a00e3989fddbd00040100a7ea0f5d000e 2008-07-20T05:11:22Z 2008-07-20T15:36:27Z Workaholic Hostess http://withoutshoes.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I thought I might miss the club and the girls and just being a hostess in general. But I don't. Just thinking about working again kind of makes me feel tired and nauseous. It's tough working a job where you have to deal with rejection all the time...

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]]> bank tag:vox.com,2008-07-19:asset-6a00e3989fddbd000400fad69b0a7a0005 2008-07-19T08:41:29Z 2008-07-20T00:51:42Z Workaholic Hostess http://withoutshoes.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom When I was at the bank today with my dad, a sleazy, greasy, disgusting guy went up to the teller next to us and started speaking really inappropriately to the teller (who was a young girl). He was using a sleazy, super friendly pedophile voice and...

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]]> i'm really back tag:vox.com,2008-07-15:asset-6a00e3989fddbd00040100a7e8d1f5000e 2008-07-15T23:12:34Z 2008-07-18T04:52:12Z Workaholic Hostess http://withoutshoes.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Have a California driver's license! Have an American bank account! Have filed my taxes (well technically I haven't sent the forms off, but I will soon)! I feel like a citizen of the USA again : )

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]]> dmv tag:vox.com,2008-07-15:asset-6a00e3989fddbd000400fa968839c40003 2008-07-15T07:06:14Z 2008-07-15T16:48:00Z Workaholic Hostess http://withoutshoes.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Governator

Everything was going well at the DMV. Honestly, I would have been pretty pissed off but not surprised if they told me that I had to take the driver's test over again. I mean I haven't lived in this country for seven years and my license has been e...

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]]> gambling in cambodia tag:vox.com,2008-07-14:asset-6a00e3989fddbd000400fa968734d80002 2008-07-14T02:49:05Z 2008-07-15T10:56:10Z Workaholic Hostess http://withoutshoes.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom My baby sister has just had a funny adventure in Cambodia. Well it's funny now because nothing really happened to her. Until two weeks ago, she'd never been in a casino in her whole life. She does love beer though, and she's no idiot. So after wi...

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]]> conversations with my mother tag:vox.com,2008-07-13:asset-6a00e3989fddbd000400fad6995dea0005 2008-07-13T21:50:03Z 2008-07-15T16:20:36Z Workaholic Hostess http://withoutshoes.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I've been hanging with my mom for the last two days. She moved to a totally boondocks town a few years ago after reading a big feature article in the LA Times about how this town will be the next resort town of California. She sold the house that ...

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