Bah. I'm homesick. I haven't hit stage two of culture shock where I hate everything Japanese though. I still love it here and am learning so much and having fun in my free time. It's just those moments when I'm not really doing anything, or reading about what my friends are doing back home, and I just want to be there. I want to see them and talk ( Read more... )

So I've been really terrible about updating my livejournal recently. And by recently I mean the last 3 years or something to that effect. I have recently started a new blog at outdoorexplorer.wordpress.com that hopefully will be used a bit ( Read more... )

Ahhh, I don't know what to do. I was just starting to be all excited about going home and taking some classes at the University of Utah and working and being with my family. Then I got an email this afternoon from the JET program saying I've been upgraded so I can go to Japan. It would be a fantastic experience and would be pretty fun. But I have ( Read more... )

So blues fest was/is awesome. I rode the bus and met this crazy lady who was definitely taking something at the time and/or drunk, talking about just breaking up with her meth head boyfriend, it made the ride very interesting. I went to the blues festival and the music was great, the fireworks were pretty fun, but made better when I was handed a ( Read more... )

I think I'm falling in love. With the state, the place, the feeling, the idea. I haven't felt this alive in years. I love challenging myself, and Oregon seems to be full of possibilities for me to challenge my skills, my knowledge, my body with. Every time I come back from windsurfing, I just have this euphoric feeling the rest of the day. I can ( Read more... )

This summer is going to be officially awesome! Today was spent hiding while my roommates packed up their stuff, getting in the water with a swim team and helping them work on their flip turns and feeling appreciated, making dinner for my friends which led to renting a movie, buying wine and garlic bread and just having an awesome night. Hopefully ( Read more... )

Augh. I need to stop thinking about the future or something, but at the same time I shouldn't. I need to desperately find a job for the summer so I can stick around and work with Brian on that Grant/research/publication thing that I don't know what to call it. . . Anyway, I'm just feeling so unmotivated in my classes right now, having a hard time ( Read more... )

wheee......

http://asteroid.cs.linfield.edu/~kfehr/

go to Projects and then the Interactive Physics one.
Quick, before I decide to destroy it. . . . blah.

Well that just reaffirmed the notion that I am not a complete failure at all things in life. I somehow managed to get a passing grade on the 3rd level of the Japanese Proficiency Test that I took this fall. Yaaay.

Back to oodles of homework.

This has been a wonderful day. A good morning workout is always a great start. It gave me energy all day even though I was tired from lack of sleep. Also hearing from one of the teachers you most respect that your presentation was good, that he would love to work with you as peer advisor for colloquium, being asked to take notes in his class for ( Read more... )