Hello.

I have started a blog.

Since I'm moving away to Hawaii and really do hate using a telephone, a blog is a good thing! (Plus, I've always secretly wanted a 'real' blog. Just to write about books and tea!)

It is MUCH easier to use one in English.


As for the name of said blog, continuing in the tradition of my never reusing a screen name, it's hard to explain but I will try!
Neko MusuME is a character in a rather old Japanese kid's show, and it roughly translates to Cat Girl. (At least that's what my Kitaro book tells me; 'musume' literally means daughter, so who knows.)

A musubi is a riceball. I mixed the two up a lot in Japanese class, so when I made a batch of riceballs for a 4-H presentation, I made one kitty-shaped! And thus the neko musubi was born. It's just a bad pun.

I figured that 'nekomusubi' would be a lot harder for most people to spell. And neko is one of those words that tends to be overused by particularly ravenous fans of Japanese culture, so it's probably not the best choice...


Now can I talk about books and tea? It's very very sad to have to leave my bookshelf at home. I absolutely refuse to use Kindle-things or audiobooks, though, so maybe it's my own fault.
I just hope they have a good library in Hilo.

As for the tea, I'm taking it with me. At least the more expensive and/or hard to find ones.

Speaking of which, I should get back to packing.