So yes, Japan was an utterly amazing trip/experience/adventure. I can't really talk about it in coherent sentences yet, so you should look at the blog specifically designed for that if you're curious (I posted the url a few posts ago ( Read more... )

only a week and half left in Japan! not ready to come back yet!

Ok, I'm doing the requisite travel blog. I want to keep it separate from this pile of rambling, so if you're interested in following my exploits abroad, here is the link:

http://lostmochi.blogspot.com/

Ta-taa!

I finally watched Stardust as a mid-afternoon treat for being SO FREAKIN PRODUCTIVE all morning. I am now filled me with warm fuzzies. Ready to tackle the rest of this to-do list.

I really want to take amazing pictures of my trip to Japan, but am not sure about lugging around a dSLR. I have a cheap point and shoot, but find (after it has been dropped several times) that the resulting photos are pretty bland. Any of my photographically inclined friends have ideas?

Two (though probably unintentionally so) stingy comments about my dancing have been smarting. With every subsequent dance, I can feel myself curling into a tiny ball of timidity, afraid that every lead is thinking those things or other such things. Ugh.

The last rejection letter has arrived. Words cannot describe the lameness of this.

sometimes when I feel out of sorts, and I know something is bothering me, but I don't know exactly what, I'll run through a list of possible things. If I feel a sudden rush of emotion when my brain thinks of a particular possibility, I usually take that to be the truth, as if my brain knew it in one part of itself, but just hadn't clued me in yet. ( Read more... )

 another slew of thin envelopes. goddammit.

maybe med school won't happen this year. I'm considering my next steps. One of which may be to go hide in Japan for a month.

 more euphoria. First day of cooking class under my belt (and expanding it too). I haven't felt so excited and engaged since Reed. My brain is so satisfied and moving so quickly I'm not sure how things could get any better.