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Grandmother
My grandmother recently passed away after a long, long life ( Read more... ) -
水中； 水沢；岩手
I emailed Yukiko, the head English teacher at Mizuwa Junior High. I've heard from a variety of other people who are safe, and Mizusawa is far inland, so I am certain that there is little damage there, but still, I want to be sure. The school is about 50 years old, built fairly soon after WWII, so the halls are not heated, which sucks fiercely as ( Read more... ) -
Iwate 岩手
The last days have been an emotional limbo of worry. The gigantic earthquake Japan suffered is horrible- but it was also too close to home because it hit Tohoku the worst, and Tohoku was home for a while. The coasts of Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori are in shambles- the seawall in Kamaishi didn't work; Ofunato and Rikuzentakata have been destroyed. ( Read more... ) -
Introspection
So one of the things on my list of 101 things to do is to NOT DRINK for a month. Which I honestly think is difficult because I really like to drink, and over the years, I've begun to use it as a social crutch, but I've been coming to the conclusion recently that as a social crutch, boozing doesn't much work ( Read more... ) -
Stuff, Life, Whatnot
I'm guilty of writing far too infrequently on the old LiveJournal, but I have to admit that for format, it really beats Facebook if you want to write something long and verbose, and the forum is a little easier than Blogger or Wordpress. Apologies ( Read more... ) -
Ideas
You know what? I love Casey and I don't want to be broken up. I want us to figure out where we went wrong and fix it.
If that doesn't happen, I'll also survive. But a girl can dream. -
Breaking Up
Several years ago, when Travis and I broke up, I used this as my (rather public) forum for venting and once I started getting over it, I didn't use this as often and instead wrote about travels or silly things ( Read more... ) -
School and life and adorable nieces
I started my first class for grad school, and I am going to finish it up tomorrow and Friday, since next week is when I'll be starting all three of my other fall courses. So far, I've been learning about various methods of online communication and tools that I may have to use. I played Second Life for about a day last week to finish an assignment ( Read more... ) -
Life
I start grad school next month for Library Science! I am excited and nervous. The whole thing is online, partly because someone from a university in New York told me she thought it was actually a better idea to do it online. So, I'm doing it ( Read more... )