Archive for March, 2006
March 17, 2006 at 12:27 am · Filed under I am feeling...
9.5 days…packed up…on plane…soon…scary…kim here…sleepy…from wine…looking forward to weekend…last in Vancouver…kind of…whirlwind…website needs updating…but it hasn’t been a week…but so much will not be done…can it ever be all done?
I want to get it all done…in this lifetime…will soak up the new country…but first must enjoy the last essentials of this one…don’t want to say goodbye because it’s so final…it’s only a year…will be back in no time…but when I am back where will I go…still sleeepy…just not wanting to fall asleep because then…
…9 days
March 12, 2006 at 11:09 pm · Filed under Experiences
I went snowshoeing tonight with folks from HCT and some of our friends. We did a guided “full moon tour” up at Mount Seymour. It was so much fun! At first I was a little apprehensive. We headed off on a flattened uphill trail. The cold air was getting harder to breathe and I was thinking, “is this all we will be doing?” Then things got fun. It snowed last week so there were many pristine unbroken patches of white. Some covered in crispy frost and others were powdery and felt like butter to walk through. I kept on thinking about shortbread cookies…don’t know why. I forgot how much fun jumping in snow is, or sliding downhill, or falling – falling can be the best part. I also forgot how much I love the sound of nighttime + cold air + steps in snow. The atmosphere leaves me feeling very free and peaceful. Yeah winter is cold – but I’m happy that I grew up with snow. I would love to snowshoe everyday.
March 11, 2006 at 2:19 pm · Filed under In the Kitchen and Foodstuff
I just made the best soup. Well, I didn’t make it, but I spiced it up! I bought a carton of Imagine’s Organic Sweet Potato Soup and had a bowl for supper last night. Sure enough, as root vegetable soups can be a hit and miss with me, it was a little too sweet for my soupy tastes.
So today I went all stewart on it and added walnuts and feta cheese. Mmm it is sooo delicious! I heated the soup on low with the walnuts in it. The feta was added after taking the soup off of the heat. Try it! It’s yummy : )
March 11, 2006 at 8:31 am · Filed under Work
Did I mention transcribing interviews yet? So yeah, that’s what I am working on now. It is actually not as bad as I thought it might be. I’m writing that so I can read this later and remind myself.
Just typed in something that I said:
Were there anythings…
Not the painful umm, and ahhs, and sos, nows, and likes but oh god. I justified it by retyping, were there any things but I don’t know if that is any better.
I’m hoping this exercise will help me ameliorate my speech.
March 8, 2006 at 7:55 am · Filed under Japan, Social Technology, Uncategorized
Kissui has a very interesting post on Japanese style blogging – what a teenagers blog looks like and what some of the common “protocols” are. She illustrates this style by or course, mimicking it in her post.
Kissui herself (real name Yuki) is only 20 years old but she’s been blogging for four years. A lot of me does not believe that she is only 20. Not because she’s been blogging for four years, but because of the dedication she puts into her artwork and her writing. Ok so yeah, it’s not like we blossom once we hit 25 and life after that is this driven, passionate, creating machine. Many of us create partially through the desire to return to the age of 15-21, pick your favorite one. Adolescent energy can make marvelous things happen.
But check out her site and you might agree with me that there is some aura of maturity and accomplishment there – she also has some amazing graphics and photographs.
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