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5 Years Out
For some reason I have been keeping close tabs on how many years I've been out of high school. For a while I've noticed my 10-year reunion steadily looming on the horizon, growing ever nearer. Come this spring, it will be 10 years since I graduated, which also means that it will be 10 years since I lived in Nebraska. No matter, my 10-year reunion ( Read more... ) -
DNR LDRs
One interesting aspect of working with so many people who have lived and traveled abroad is the random things we had in common with our experiences. I feel like the East Asian rep; but the other pre-enrollment advisors have worked all over Central and South America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. As I was eating lunch the other day with two of my ( Read more... ) -
FINALLY a job I can be proud of!
Two weeks ago today I was bumming around the apartment (as usual) when I received a call. It was from a company I had interviewed with in the very beginning of July. Needless to say, I had completely written off this job several weeks before. But there I was, being offered a job, but with a catch: I had to start the following Monday. I asked for a ( Read more... ) -
Hey Howdy
It's pretty hard to believe it's August already. Time has absolutely flown by since I've been back in Chicago! I still have dreams regularly about Japan and traveling. Many of my dreams center around my now-expired passport: I either need to travel abroad but can't or am abroad and need to get home but can't. Maybe I should just bite the bullet and ( Read more... ) -
Home Sweet Home
It's been 2.5 months since I left my beloved Yokohama and though I of course miss it and all of the lovely people there, I have to say I'm quite happy being back in Chicago. I arrived at the tail-end of winter, and spent a few weeks bundled up and enjoying the familiar feeling of freezing-cold air on my cheeks ( Read more... ) -
Total Shamination
Knowing that yesterday was my last day in Japan for a while, I arranged one last blow-out shamisen performance at the Pink Cow on the 24th for their January Japanese Lounge Night. The performance was awesome. The place was completely packed and some of my coworkers even came up from Yokohama as moral support. Kumiya (the event coordinator) put me ( Read more... ) -
お疲れさまでした
Today was my final day of work in Japan. I can hardly believe that it's all over! Just one week left and I'm back in The Windy City ( Read more... ) -
Time to Go Home
There are many times in the past few weeks that I have wanted to write about the numerous adventures (big and small) that I have had during the past month, but a fatal mixture of anxiety and apathy have stilled my fingers and my brain. But seeing as this is supposed to be a (very) generalized chronicle of my life, to remain silent any longer would ( Read more... )
