See You at Dinner, Space Mobile Armored Riot Police

I keep joking with everyone that now, like Japan, Chicago has a rainy season, but it's increasingly clear to me that it's not a joke. We have rain on the forecast every day through Saturday, it's rained most of last week, it rained for most of June, it rained for most of June last year...maybe I should start slipping 梅雨 (tsuyu) into my daily speech just so we'll have it ready when we need it.

( Plus one at a work party )

( Weeb lecture and house party )

Sunday during the day I went to look at condos with my parents, but they were all places I had seen before. I don't really have much to say about it other than it was a good experience and we managed to get back home just before the storm rolled in.

( 3, 2, 1, let's jam )

The subject is obviously a mashup of all the different events here. The only one that might not be obvious is Mobile Armored Riot Police, the Japanese name of Ghost in the Shell: 攻殻機動隊 kōkaku kidōtai. Well, sort of. 攻殻 is a neologism, made from the characters for "attack" and "shell, husk," and if you look it up online you find either 1) Ghost in the Shell stuff or 2) Japanese people wondering what the hell 攻殻 means.

So now you know that the nonsense anime titles exist in the native Japanese as well as in English!