today there was drama with my brother. i talked to my brother online and last night he and my mother and our uncle's wife got into a huge fight. they basically criticized him and he couldn't take it. i'm not saying they were entirely wrong, but i think they must've gone about it the wrong way because my brother took it very badly, then again, he's not one that can deal with criticism. i don't think i got the full story but we'll see what happens. my brother wants to run away and i told him he's too old to run away; he should move out. he agreed. he was going to go back to LA for about 2 weeks, then live in tokyo for 3 months. now he's going straight to tokyo. there's only one problem, he lost his backpack that contains the most important things in his life right now: airplane tickets, passports, money.