momentary procrastination

[jay]

I'm at work at my desk this Saturday night, instead of going out or cuddling patgreene, trying valiantly to get this paper finished by Monday. The Japanese conference organizers already gave me a week's extension...

In any case, after my LJ valentine whining yesterday afternoon I went home and surprised Pat, and that in turn didn't scrape :-). And with a full night's sleep last night, I'm actually reasonably clear-headed... despite wishing geekchick were closer. Oh, well... enough momentary procrastination here, back to work now.

Comments

[boubabe.livejournal.com]

Despite the deer, the Great Buddha (Daibutsu, I think) and the largest wooden building in the world (Todaiji Temple) is very, very cool. You'll have a good time in Nara. Nara isn't far from Kyoto, either, which is another wonderful place to visit.

Also not far from Nara is Byodoin which is the building that is featured on the 10 yen coin.

I've got some pictures I took during the summer at:
Byodoin
Kyoto and Nara
Fushimi Inari Shrine - just south of Kyoto going towards Nara

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the picture links! Those are tantalizing... I hope that I get to make the trip. Evil rats notwithstanding ;-).