mullenkedheim

About Tim...

Of course, you know of the disaster that happened on March 11, 2011 at 2:46 PM JST. On the Japanese Earthquake Scale (which measures shaking, and thus damage -- slightly different from the Richter [and associated] scales), my town was hit with a Shindo 6 high, the second strongest type of quake. The school I was teaching in at the time has been demolished due to quake damage, but thankfully everyone was able to escape the school safely that day.

I live 126km from Fukushima Daiichi. This means that, despite there being zero risk, my cards to you may be slightly delayed depending on if your country's postal service is taking special radiation precautions with mail from Japan.

If you want to help, please look at http://quakebook.org and consider purchasing for either your e-reader or the print edition. All money (not proceeds, not profits, 100% of the price you pay) goes to the Japan Red Cross.

Another good option is Second Harvest Japan, which is working directly in the afflicted areas. http://www.2hj.org/

Thank you for your thoughts, and your help.

Right, back to my proper profile.

I like travel, music, reading, writing (creatively and factually, for pleasure and for pay), plants, photography, etc etc.

Though I live in Japan, I'm not Japanese. I was born and raised in small town Ontario (that's in Canada :P), and got the hell out of there to the University of Toronto as soon as could; after that, I got the hell out of the country as soon as I could, and now I'm in Japan teaching English -- have been for more than five years.

I studied history in university, and so I'm a big ol' history/politics/world events nerd.

I got tired of writing pretty much THIS (points to the above bit) on my sent postcards, so I stopped. If you want to know, you'll check out my profile and read this when you register anyway. Makes it more fun to me to write more freely on the postcards. Accept this as an explanation to your question of: "What the heck does this even mean, what???" when you read the postcard I sent you. Often, it's just song lyrics, so chill, yeah? :D?

I like all postcards, but I'd of course prefer something that's not a free ad-card (unless it's meant to be used for correspondence, and you write a message on it), but whatever, I'm easy. :) If you have a card you've not sent yet because you're afraid it may offend someone, or it's so strange that you think people may not like it, feel free to send it to me! The crazy and offensive cards, I like!