my god, i’ve been busy! but not too busy to share another japan moment with you. :) last year we went on several outings with my friend david, his wife ryoko, and their son jonathan! AND we had the wonderful opportunity to to be in japan while their second baby (joshua) was born! he was [...]
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i hate money! moving is expensive. working part-time is hard when you don’t get paid much. too bad my school is so disorganized that if i were to request more student loans to live off of this semester, the checks would probably arrive after graduation. time to start working hard….and applying for food stamps! work [...]
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happy mlk day! what a wonderful celebration today and tomorrow will be! i am super psyched to be back in the US participating in the festivities!
so, as for japan stories, this summer after josh and i went to sapporo, we went to lake toya, which is where the G8 summit was held last year. it [...]
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well hell’s bells; it looks like i’ll be ringing in the new year with a fever and a sore throat. :( i am so psyched to be back in the desert with late evening calls for karoke and beers, dinner party invitations, birthday parties in parks, and plans for campouts and other grand adventures. just [...]
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Back in Tucson! sweet! it’s a little different here than i remember….dustier and with more businesses closing, which is depressing. but the people are still lovely and loving, and i love them!
speaking of lovely people, i should write more about this summer. before our dear friends aaron and amber left japan, we went to enoshima [...]
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well, it’s back to non-military time and living in the past! we arrived in seattle yesterday. although it feels like much longer ago. i slept for 20 hours last night, though off and on. i kept waking up and watching movies until i fell back asleep because i knew if i [...]
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so how psyched are we about our new president? hell yeah! of course i would have loved for cynthia mckinney to have gotten more votes and for people to stop controlling the legality of other people’s marriages with ballots, but i am choosing to be content with what i consider to be a major major [...]
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wow, i am so tired! halloween parties are no fun when you’re old.
so i’d like to tell you about the first week of june….the 2nd anniversary of when i met josh. truthfully, josh and i were too damn busy to remember that that was in fact the meeting of our anniversary until a few days [...]
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so i came to japan with a vague idea that somehow the experience of living in a country that is so completely different from my own might give me some perspective on how my students and their families who migrated to the United States from countries like Mexico might feel living in an environment so [...]
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