This morning I was watching London cnn and it showed a live clip of Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi being re-elected in Parliament. So I flipped to channel 15 and watched it live. I love that I can do that. Every evening I watch American Morning before I go to bed, and in the morning I watch the evening news in America. I love cnn.

Sometimes in a movie you will see a character in a scene that is perfect, and wish that you could be in a scene like that. But it occured to me yesterday that perhaps those characters don't realize they are in a perfect scene. Yesterday I was riding my bike around, and as I zipped around a mini coupe then narrowly avoided a toyota and sped off down the sidewalk it occured to me that I was in one of those perfect scenes that you see on TV. Surrounded by signs in a foreign language and the only foreigner in sight, it really felt like I was in a movie for a minute.