I spent the majority of my weekend in Shinjuku. After school on Friday, I got on the Tsukuba Express and rode to Minami-Naregayama, where I transferred to the JR for Kita-Fuchu. I was planning to stay with a woman from CouchSurfing, but I got lost from some bad directions, and I had to be in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘friends’
Small World
Okay, I have already posted this on Twitter and Facebook and in email, but I have to say it more. nytekat knows ravynfyre. I refuse to believe the world is really that small. I mean, I know Iowa is pretty small, but how is it that somebody I met on LambdaMOO 12 years ago is [...]
Need Your Love
I was going to write a long detailed post, but in the interest of maintaining the family’s privacy, I will just ask those of you who pray to pray for my supervisor’s son, who is in the Cardiac ICU at Children’s Hospital in Washington, DC. He is on the fast track for a heart transplant [...]
NAD: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Morning
So I have to catch you up on what’s been happening since Monday. Tuesday was pretty uneventful most of the day. Okay, I’ll be honest…I don’t remember what I did. Definitely looked around the exhibit hall a lot, signed up with HOVRS to get their new MVP device and a Purple Number, chatted with former [...]
Preparing to Leave for New Orleans
I have spent all weekend with the college bowl team. On Friday we went to the Newseum, which is much better than the old one that was in Arlington. It’s a full-day excursion now, and I recommend seeing it all in one day because the $20 admission is a bit steep. Friday night my wife [...]
Super Friend
I have a totally awesome friend, and her name is Colleen. She is nice, sweet, funny, crazy, intelligent, mature, and delightful. I met her back in August when school started, but today she became my official co-worker in the VRS center. She’s staying on campus over the summer, so we will get to hang out [...]
Death of a Friend
There are a ton of songs about Julia, but the one sticking in my head right now is John Lennon’s elegy to his mom. I can’t get it out of my head. It’s so haunting, so evocative of how I feel right now. My friend Julia Case died last week. Some of you may have [...]
A Night Up
After :A: went to bed about 11pm, I came downstairs and watched the last episode of Eleventh Hour, and this week’s L Word. I switched to regular TV and watched half an episode of Intervention, then X-Files and Outer Limits. I think the alarm upstairs will be going off in about 20 minutes; our flight [...]
Mindset of 2011
There’s nothing to make a girl feel old like reading the mindset of most of her classmates. It totally shocks me that kids I attend class with don’t remember the Berlin Wall coming down, or the Soviet Union being a secret superpower that we were scared of, or Nelson Mandela being released from prison, or [...]
Classes Are Done!
Hooray, today was the last day of classes! I still have to redo my research paper (I’ve got 3.5 pages out of 8 so far) and do my history final, math final, and ASL final. The math final is due on the 13th, the ASL final is due on the 10th, and the history final [...]
