but if ghz posted on his.... ;)
well i graduated. i live in kentucky now. how funny is that? i got a job teaching japanese at eastern kentucky university.
and, um... i don't really know what else to put here anymore. out of practice i guess.
oh, the bike is built. it's gorgeous. the hubs make me weep. there is nothing uncool on that bike. i wish i were still tooling around honolulu and oahu's mountains with it... but it sure is nice to be employed, insured, and relatively able to pay my bills. |
tons to put here, but alas, i'm going to do all that after 20 april or so, when i know if i'm graduating this semester or not, and after the new bike is (hopefully!) built. phil wood hubs, anyone? oh yeah.
so i'll write more later, although i don't even know if anyone reads this anymore! |
In addition to this semester, and other time-specific stuff that ends, and some non-time-specific stuff that ends, we may just see some sort of end in the upcoming months regarding my still favorite cyclist:
http://www.tylerhamilton.com
Here's to everyone having enough things that are annoying, inconvenient, debilitating, time-consuming, expensive, set-for-failure v. challenging, ugly, and everything else along those lines END - so that the things we can learn from them are made manifest sooner rather than too late, and so that we have enough badassedness left in us to really overhaul the stuff that is advantageous to us.
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Well two or three beers turned into /one/ beer with lots of reading and studying. I'm going to have to skip a couple of classes this morning in order to stay on top of everything else this week. One of my classes requires enough extra time and time sensitive stuff that involves comments and collaboration that I sometimes have to skip other things. I have gotten lax with time management skills of late - doing stuff like recreational reading when I should be studying and the like. I'm glad for the breaks in November - I will use them to catch up and get everything going the right way again.
Catch you all later.Current Mood: determined Current Music: morning Makiki traffic |
Well I did the North Shore triathlon today, my last for a few months (I swear!). My times were nothing great in the big scheme of things, but in terms of PRs they rule! So that is exciting. I was even pretty pleased with my running splits since about half the run was done in deep, soft, loose sand. Like doing the Charleston in wet cement. I even won a pound of coffee at the raffle afterwards! Since I don't drink coffee, I gave it to my dentist (who also participated. My dentist rocks!). Then he gave me some cookies, so it worked out quite well. Chocolate chip cookies with rice krispies in them, an inspired recipe!
I see I'm overusing exclamation points. Must be because I just read a 'Drew' book (the toothpaste for dinner guy).
Well I'm supposed to drink some beer tonight! I know, once you are all back in your chairs just know that means having two or maybe three (!) beers with my buddy Neil in the privacy of my own apartment. We did that over the summer and it was pretty fun. I have probably had something to drink about five times this year!
OK, I just woke up from a raging nap. I need to get fully clothed and get some studying done. Take care, everybody. Until next time.Current Mood:  calm Current Music: something that sounds like jetskis, no idea what it is |
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Same routine - lots of school, working out, &c...
Got a triathlon tomorrow - and it's about the one year anniversary of my first one. What should be interesting is that I'm going to a birthday party for one of the kids I tutor, and it's going to be Korean BBQ extravaganza - starting at 6PM. So I'll be doing everything wrong prep-wise for tomorrow, but what can you do. To be honest, I'm looking forward to just tuning up everything at the gym over the next couple of months... just really getting lots of solid cardio every morning. I need to find the joy in riding on my own again, because cycling club has kind of taken a weird turn. Nothing fatal, but I need some time away for a while, just to get strong mentally and physically so I can kick ass on our rides. I want to do Tantalus a lot more, and I found this hill on the way to Reiter's new digs and I plan on riding up there too.
It looks like all systems are go for a May 06 graduation. That makes me a happy girl. I have been toying with the idea of going back to Japan for a while too - somewhere in the south or something.
Well I've got to keep going today - lots of homework I'd like to get done before tomorrow's tri so if I'm too shattered afterward I won't be setting myself up for a very bad week academically.
Best to everyone. Until next time.
Sep. 17th, 2005 @ 11:06 am
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| » Back home in HI |
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I can't believe a month has flown by since I've written. No, wait, I can. ;-) FL was a great experience but I guess there's a dignity in returning home to the destitution that while unsavory is my own. That's what I keep telling myself anyway. It certainly is great to be back in low humidity tropical weather.
Reading over my last entry, I am reminded that I did have a new favorite in the TDF whom I kept to myself. Luckily I didn't type his name since he ended up really really hating life on the last individual time trial - he wiped out several times and also had to get his wheels replaced like four times. He went from 4th to 10th in overall standing, although that is still great, and he did win King of the Mountains for the Tour, which is awesome. He obtained his goals of King of the Mountains and a stage win. Now if you don't know who he is still and you have a burning desire to find out, you can look him up on cyclingnews.com from the info I've given. He's Danish, lovely, and flippin' smokes in the mountains. And I'm not a huge fan of the team he rides for, Rabobank.
This is coming to you from my brand new Sony VAIO. Aside from a few weirdnesses I still need to hammer out, all systems are go. It's a gorgeous machine. I need to get a USB hub though, because my mp3 player doesn't fit into the usb port on it thanks to the lip of the top of the keyboard overlapping too much. I know, I know, cry me a river.
I actually seriously considered getting a PowerBook, but after careful deliberation I decided that at this juncture a PC would be the better option, for reasons I won't get into here. I really do hope to have a PowerBook as well in the future.
School starts tomorrow Mon 22 Aug 05. Summer sure was a blur. If I get everything together the way I am hoping to get it together, I'll be graduating in May 06. Keep your fingers crossed! It will be good to talk with my advisor again. He is so amazing.
OK, I should talk a lot more about the FL experience, &c, but I am way too antsy to do other stuff. Catch you all later. Until next time. Oh, and Tyler's appeal trial is next month. He just won a non-UCI-sanctioned race in NH. He is such a badass.
Aug. 22nd, 2005 @ 12:19 pm
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| » From the farthest east I've been while still in the USA |
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Hello everyone from Clearwater, FL. Apparently the place I'm staying was designed and lived in by Lisa Marie Presley, then Kirstie Ally, and now my boss. I guess that's impressive. What's more impressive is that I get to stay in the "guest house" which is about 35 times nicer than my apartment, and I'm using tasty wi-fi on the lovely vaio laptop that I used at the Kahala manse earlier this summer. Also lovely is the fact that said guest house has two televisions, which of course have been tuned to OLN for the amazing recent stages of the Tour (tomorrow Pau - weehoo!), excluding today's rest day because I couldn't be bothered. Picked up /my/ bike today too, a lovely blue Specialized Dolce Elite with a carbon fork and components ranging from nameless and black to Ultegra. Life is a sweet, sweet, fruit.
On a less materialistic note, the job is going well and I am really enjoying my time here, and finding much satisfaction working with Chelsea again. She has two metal rods in her spine which is now almost completely straight, and she no longer has braces. She's almost taller than me, and her little brother Anthony, who is 13, is taller than me. Go figure.
On another materialistic note, when I was in LA I was able to tool around with Owen in a convertible Lexus (like the one Regina had in Mean Girls), I got to drive his sweet WRX, and I have been shuttled around FL in a Hummer H2. Tomorrow I'll be taking Chelsea out and about in a brand new PT Cruiser convertible, which is silly but still great. So vehicularly this has been a pretty incredible past week or so.
I should try to get to bed now, because I'm still on LA time I think, up until 4 in the morning or so and then hating life when I try to start the day at 7am. I figure I'll work out hard enough tomorrow so I can face plant at a reasonable hour like 10pm or earlier if I'm lucky. How great is it to watch the Tour on Eastern Standard Time? Words cannot express.
Speaking of expressing, I have decided to no longer express favorite pro riders. First I expressed Tyler Hamilton, and then I expressed Dave Zabriskie. Since I don't wish any more tragedy to befall the riders I admire/like/crush on, I am going to just keep my faves to myself.
I have my portable mp3 player stuck into the USB port on this laptop, which is resting on my quads right now as I lie on this large and well appointed bed. It's cool because the screen on the player flashes from time to time and I like to look at it. How easily the simple minds are delighted and entertained...
I think my favorite part of what is my abode for one month is the fact that in the bedroom is a door that opens to a stackable washer and dryer. Yes, there is a washer and dryer in MY VERY OWN BEDROOM. If that is not the most decadent thing then I don't know what is. It's a good washer and dryer too.
Plant life in FL is surreal, not in a tropical Hawaiian way, but a sort of South Moon Under Marjorie Rowlings swampy buzzing steamy verdant kind of way. There are tons of lizards here of the non-gecko variety. I am hoping not to run into snakes, alligators, or any of the more nefarious types of spiders or roaches that may be here. In the insular bubble of incomprehendible wealth I find myself in for the next few weeks I have AC while I sleep so the humidity has not been a problem at all. I have experienced a pretty gnarly thunder and lightning storm, but so far not a hurricane. I don't know if Emily will hit here or not, so that should be interesting. I should watch the weather more.
OK, time to sign off and hit the hay. I finally picked up "Fragrant Harbour" by John Lanchester, and it's just as good as "Debt to Pleasure" was, but in a much more real way. He rocks. So does Jared Diamond, even though I still haven't finished Guns, Germs, and Steel, for flip's sake. It's like the Quicksilver of the Jared Diamond world.
Well everybody, thanks for reading, and thanks for always sending comments to my e-mail. I have no idea why I get weirded out by comments. Oh well! :-)
Until next time.
Jul. 18th, 2005 @ 11:06 pm
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Thank you Tina Fey for the above expression.
It turns out there is a pool at the park by my house, who knew?! Ray, my cycling buddy. He told me on the way home from this party we went to last Saturday. I went and checked it out today and it is gorgeous and clean and open every day. The kickboards and pull buoys are nice and new too. So I am a most happy camper.
I just got back from swimming and rinsed off... about to go lunch with Morgan and William. Should be good times. I'm leaving in less than a week... oh me oh my...
I could blather about Tour stuff, but I won't. Just suffice it to say I miss Tyler, Dave Z is my interim fave, and I'll be watching it like mad as soon as I'm in L.A. with Owen.
Another fourth of July has come and gone. This year I spent it on my lanai, watching the waikiki fireworks.
Well I should throw some clothes on and get to it. I'll give a more proper update one of these days.
Take care everybody. Until next time.
Jul. 6th, 2005 @ 12:47 pm
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| » June is a tease |
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It keeps flying by all sneaky-like.
Well tomorrow is going to be my last dive session and then I'll be certified. I finished all the written stuff and I'm pretty stoked.
Rode out to Makapuu today with the gang, and we'll all be hiking there under the full moon tomorrow night.
Not much else to report. Neil is crashing here for a week as he's couch surfing when he's in Hawaii over the summer (he went to the mainland for family stuff and has to go back for training in a bit). He's a pretty easy roommate - clean, quiet, washes dishes. I've got no complaints there. I figured if he drove me crazy I'd just crash at Ko Olina, but I think we may actually go out there together next week and swim and play at the beach.
Diving has been sweet. I have seen tons of critters and really enjoy being fathoms below. Is a fathom an actual unit of measurement? I know a league is. I'll have to research that.
I've been reading for pleasure a lot and it's been lovely. Right now I'm working on "Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond, and I inhaled the newest Chuck Palahniuk but I think I mentioned that earlier. Will work more on "Quicksilver" (Stephenson) and "Collapse" (Diamond) afterward. I seem to be getting almost 4 New Yorkers a month now too - guess the postal gods are smiling on Hawaii once again.
Went and picked up some trash today for IT&B and Frank gave us some spiffy T-shirts for doing so. The shop adopted a strip of bike path on Kapahulu Ave... very unlike all the trash pick-ups I did in Nevada which mostly consisted of dry papers and chew cans. The trash on Kapahulu is wet, roach-infested, and mostly related to stuff homeless people either used or are still using and hid. I'm just happy I didn't find crack pipes, needles, spent condoms, and stuff like that. I wanted to swim in bleach when I was finished anyway, sure that's a big shock to everyone. I always liked the French term for homeless people - "SDF" (sounds like ess-day-eff, which is cool) - stands for "sans domicile fixé" - gives it a kind of glamour I think the English doesn't have. :-)
The weather was gorgeous for the ride today (big surprise there), although there was a particularly unforgiving and punitive head wind going out there. At times it literally stopped me in my tracks. It's making me stronger, though, because I noticed in its absence I was flying several mph faster than normal. So I guess something good comes out of it. We had to take Heartbreak Hill there and back as the road by Hanauma would have been silly and deadly in that wind. When I caught the headwind heading down a hill I can usually get to nearly 40mph on I couldn't break 17. So it cut my speed by more than half, ::hate, hate::
I'm getting excited about LA/FL, although a lot of the aspects of the trip haven't hit me yet. I get to make a side trip to Annapolis to see Mom, Bret, Melanie, and the kids, which rules, and hopefully the Berc clan and I will make a side trip to the Keys for a few days (yay - I heard there are shipwrecks I can go diving to see). That would rock. So summer travel is pretty good this year. My passport expires in August. I am mildly deflated that I didn't fulfill my goal of filling it up before having to get a new one. The new one is going to look so naked and boring.
Well I'm gonna kick it and read until bedtime. Taking it easy so I'm in top form for diving tomorrow. So very cool. Take care everybody. Take it easy. Until next time.
Jun. 18th, 2005 @ 06:52 pm
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| » June's First Sunday |
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2005 has flown. Cliche but true.
I forgot to mention that at the MAG tri, my number was 66. I wanted the guy who was painting numbers on us to put an extra 6 on me, but he wouldn't. :-). My number at North Shore was 42, which I thought was extra appropriate given that HHGG had come out a couple of weeks before. I reread the first one but never made it to the movie, which is sad since Bill Nighy was the guy who made Norway and Alan Richman does the voice of the manic robot.
I picked up the new Chuck Palahniuk today and the May ProCycling. Bastards at the bookstores here who never had April... I guess I was just not meant to have the April ProCycling... time to put it behind me!
I'll stay at Ko Olina off and on until I leave for FL. I actually went and got a membership to the video store in Kapolei. I had not been in a video store for about two years. Man if I ever get my own TV and/or DVD player I am so joining Netflix.
Chelsea is back in MN until FL... it will be weird not getting up at 5:30 every day to make her breakfast, lunch, and take her to school. I will take this time to train really hard, especially out at Ko Olina where I can swim in the lagoons and run and everything. Still debating whether or not I'm going to take my bike out there, although I guess I should. I am pretty sure I've scoped out a route that will take me from the house to where I had that race clinic last year at Barber's Point without having to get on the H1. Still have to get on a couple of major thoroughfares but I'm tough at least mind-wise for that.
It's early, and I'm shattered. After a couple of weeks of 4-5 hours of sleep a night I get pretty worthless. I don't know how I did it a few years back when I worked at Physics and Cafe de Thai and woke up every day and went to the gym at 6am. I think it was because I only had myself to worry about, and although I had to put out a lot of fires at my jobs, I didn't have to "take them home" nearly as much as when I'm nannying or tutoring, which is pretty much a 24/7 type of arrangement. Florida will be easier because there will be a lot more structure for Chelsea. I remember during the time I worked like that I also had no social life, I mean, none, and many of my relationships with close friends were strained. These days I take the time to nurture the ones I have here, and keep in touch with my close friends on the mainland. Friendships are so strange, the way they develop and maybe atrophy over time. Morgan called it an organic process. I find myself with many of the same friends I've had since childhood, and then a few I've had for years and years and the friendship has faded. It's sad, but not hurtful. Adult life isn't anything that I would have ever expected on so many levels.
Well I'm going to hydrate and read some more. Take care everybody. I'm sorry I always erase all the comments - it's just what I do.
Until next time.
Jun. 5th, 2005 @ 08:32 pm
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| » No more Kahala, Future Ko Olina, Current Makiki |
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The subject line sums up the location aspects of work / life. If you don't understand it don't worry about it.
Did my second tri in a week yesterday at North Shore. Life sure is full of surprises. Here I thought the MAG tri would be all kinds of hard, being at the Marine Base and all. The run was 3.5 instead of just 5K (about .3 miles of a difference, but after the swim and bike, that .3 miles can really be felt), and since Marines designed it there were many hills, wide open flats, puddles, and mud traps involved. Turns out that it was actually quite enjoyable! My times were horrendous but I was right pleased about my swim and felt really great after the whole thing. Figuring North Shore would be a breeze as the swim was only 400m and the run was only 3 miles, I was surprised that I actually did MAG much quicker. I smoked on the bike at North Shore though, passing at least 23 people in only 10 miles, which made me feel great. North Shore was really hard psychologically - and there was about a 400m sprint in soft, deep sand from the beach to the bike corral, including a crazy hill, so that was nuts too. I'm excited to really take my training to the next level over the summer. I'm going to join Neil's group when I get back from Florida too. He trains with "Tri Moving," a very affordable and distance oriented group. Neil got 4th in his age division. He's so going to start placing soon. I've got some sweet pics of our bikes that I might put on my friendster page one of these days. The day before the North Shore Tri we went up there to scope out the course, and did a practice swim. The swim there is super shallow and reefy, so as beautiful as it is it's pretty technical (and it was pretty much like a war zone during the actual tri) and the water was choppy. Anyway, when we had gotten out of the water Neil goes "oh wow, look, there's a turtle swimming over there" and sure enough, there was a sea turtle playing around really close to shore. So, we jumped in and swam with it, and while we were doing that Neil grabbed my arm and gestured over to our left, and there was another, HUGE one! So we swam around with two sea turtles for a while, until the turtles got sorta exasperated with us and swam off. It was so amazing, totally made my day on Friday.
Florida work plans have been finalized. I'll leave Honolulu 7/12/05 and stay with Owen in LA until 7/16/05 when I fly into Tampa, then stay at the estate in Clearwater until 8/16/05, fly back to LA for a day and then return to Honolulu on 8/17/05.
Much more to talk about, but I need to get cracking on a bunch of other projects. I'll catch up here soon.
Best to everyone. Until next time.
May. 29th, 2005 @ 08:37 am
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Grades:
Lit - A-
Syntax - B
P. Grammar - A
Swimming - A
Yoga - TBA
Not too horrible, yet nothing to be freaky proud of. Mostly just glad it's done.
Been staying at the Kahala house, helping out a lot here kinda nanny-like as well as tutor-like. Works for me.
Suddenly have blogger's block. Nutshell version of everything: Stuff is good.
Until next time.
May. 18th, 2005 @ 02:27 pm
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| » Ahhh, Procrastination |
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Well the 20 page research paper is due in a matter of hours, so I'm hopped up on Red Bull, I've got Magnetic Fields playing, and I'm good to go. Why I do this kind of thing is beyond me. I'm sure there's some deep-seated (is that even what that expression is - I've only ever heard it) reason for it that requires lots of self-evaluation and therapy, but alas, I'll wait until the paper is turned in before I think about that. Each time I do this (which has basically been every time I have had a research project due in the past two semesters) I say, ok, this is silly, I will not do this again, it is an honor and privilege to be back in school, blah x3, and here I am, sitting in my apartment as the rain pounds outside and everything. I'm silly.
I revised next term's schedule, and now I will only have one class on Tuesday, and no class on Thursday. The only thing I had to do to make it like that was drop yoga, which I would not have gotten credit for anyway since I took it this semester (I'm definitely not ready for the next level of yoga, like I am for swimming). I can take yoga in Manoa for five bucks a pop, so if I get antsy about it I'll do that. Since I know some of the basics now, and I've got the mat, block, and strap, I am really quite capable of getting my yoga on at home anyway. I'd rather have the free time. Since my schedule is so tough next semester I'm glad I made it so I won't go batshit crazy. Yoga isn't supposed to be the factor that throws you right over the edge, so I'm glad I didn't make it that way.
OK, I should get to it. Until next time.
May. 8th, 2005 @ 09:12 pm
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| » It's all over Friday the 13th... |
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Just a take home final, an in class final, and one paper... So close to being done. :-)
No summer school, no Japan (I turned down the EIL thing, with some, but not much, regret), just a summer of sunshine and training and working and whatever else may happen. I'm so pleased.
Not so much to report, just doing my thing. Times have been good.
Entertaining some thoughts about summer travel now that I have five weeks I didn't think I'd have. On the list: LA, SF, Annapolis, MD, and perhaps a month in Florida (work-related). Don't know if any of that will pan out, and feeling pretty damn relaxed about the whole thing. I think I've gotten back to that sorta mind-numbing kind of workout schedule, which is fine by me. I'm also feeling very relieved not to have classes for a couple of months. To be honest, I am looking into other avenues in terms of my degree - might get teaching license, or better, a master's in teaching in which case I'll get licensed /and/ paid while I student teach. I think I've already qualified for a certificate in Japanese Language from my department, so I figure that and a license will get me further than another year or two living like a hobo and wondering if I'll ever get hired as a haolie to teach local kids an Asian language. This is all still very preliminary, ask me again in five minutes. It seems to make a lot of sense to me though. I'm going to meet with some guy at the College of Education one of these days. Part of me feels like it's a cop out, but then a larger part of me feels like it's more of a cop out to continue to limit myself by specialization. It will be nice to have a big discussion about this with some of my closer friends and hear what they have to say about it. I am grateful to have such trustworthy and intelligent sound boards. :-)
May. 5th, 2005 @ 09:54 am
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| » Almost the weekend... |
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I'm so going to miss the Fridays off of school/work thing... it sure was nice when it lasted. I had two semesters of class free Fridays! I will look back at them with fondness for the rest of my days... My schedule next semester is going to be PUNITIVE. I'm thinking about taking weight training too. I think that would be a lot of fun. I wish there were a class where you could do a VO2 max test and learn all about lactic thresholds and use different heart rate monitors and stuff. That would be so cool.
I'm tutoring right now - Chelsea is kicking some serious amounts of tail with her algebra, and I'm just kind of prodding her along when she gets silly with fractions or something. She has really come a long way over the past few months and I am proud of her. I'll miss her when she goes to boarding school on the East Coast next term.
Well Neil talked me into doing a triathlon before the North Shore Tri. So May will have two triathlons six days apart. Sick Neil, sick! Surprisingly I have not cycled as much as normal these past few weeks. I've had stuff going on Saturday mornings and then during the week I've been too busy with my other training. I'm sure that will change in a bit as I don't like it when my bike glares at me. I took her out for some nice if mileage insignificant spins (10-20 miles) a few times last week though so she isn't totally pissed at me yet. I'm looking forward to tomorrow... all I plan on doing is laundry and working out until I face plant. I figure I'll ride to school, do open swim, and then ride home taking some sort of obnoxiously hilly detour. Sounds like a day straight out of heaven. :-). Hopefully I'll get to spend some quality time with a new buddy too. ;-) He likes pie.
Chelsea's got three problems left, and then we're moving on to English, and seeing where we go from there. It's 8pm and she's got a ton of Hawaiian to study (she does that on her own) before tomorrow morning, when she has to get up at 5:30am to go to cheerleading practice, of all things.
It's going to be less of a bum-f**k at the end of this semester - just one take home exam, one in-class exam, one largish paper, and whatever they will make me do in yoga and swimming. Last semester it was four ridiculously involved research projects and right around that time is when I had the motherboard incident so most stuff happened on Morgans' iBook. Those were crazy times I have no desire to relive. I haven't heard from EIL, the organization I applied with to do the five weeks in Japan as a "group leader" for the summer. Well, I applied with France in mind, actually, but when I had my phone interview the guy told me how desperate he was for Japanese-capable leaders, so yeah, if I get accepted I'll definitely be doing a Pacific rather than Atlantic type of thing. I almost don't even want to do it anymore. I'd rather stay here, hassle free, and just work my tail off and work out. I'll figure out everything if and when I get accepted. If I had the interview over a month ago and am supposed to leave in June, it sounds like the infrastructure of this place is pretty non-existent. I'd put up with that for wads of cash, but I'd basically be doing it for free. I have to decide if it will be worth it. I like the idea of ocean swims, long rides, sunset runs, organic produce, clean air, and money-making more that I like the idea of setting myself up for frustration and disappointment, I think. Ask me again in five minutes.
Until next time.
Apr. 21st, 2005 @ 08:02 pm
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Well Tyler got suspended and Lance is retiring in July (I'll believe it when I see it, although Lance usually does exactly what he says he's going to do). This is a weird day for cycling, at least to American fans. I've got to get to class, and work, and life.
Until next time.
Apr. 18th, 2005 @ 12:08 pm
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| » A Mid April Note |
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Well a little bit later than mid-April, I guess... This month has kind of escaped me.
Nothing super new to report, just doing the same stuff... having some really good times that I should be recording in more detail here, of course, but yeah. I'll just make specific times to blog and it will all even out I'm sure.
My swimming class is canceled today. Instead of going to the pool for open swim before my syntax class I am going to stay glued to my computer in order to hear Lance's PC (I'm such a sucker) and keep checking for Tyler's verdict. Hopefully my connection will behave.
I've also got some syntax homework I need to catch up on as it's due in a matter of hours *slaps own wrist*. I hope before I'm out of grad school I have a semester that isn't so asymptotic when it comes to enthusiasm.
Work is going well, although the job will end in June because Chelsea will be out of school and then moving.
Well I'm going to get back to the homework and the searching for verdicts... the Lance press conference starts in about an hour or so. Maybe I can find an audio stream of it somewhere.
Until next time.
Apr. 18th, 2005 @ 08:12 am
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| » Happy Thursday |
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I have been remiss in my blogging duties.
Well the Lanikai was a ton of fun, but my times sucked. The swim was stupid hard. I'll do better time-wise at the next one on 28 May 05, the North Shore Triathlon.
Classes continue to challenge me. I've been doubling up in yoga and swimming to make up for the classes I missed, and I'm sore and exhausted after yoga, and energized after swimming. Yoga is hard! We learned how to do flip turns in swimming this week, so I am beyond stoked about that.
I got the chance to work out where the beautiful people go as my cycling buddy Ray gave me some free passes to his uber chic gym. Did some yoga with him last weekend, and tomorrow we're doing a stability ball class and this hip hop thing. I can't believe I'm actually taking a dance class, but it will be very Napolean Dyanamite-esque so I guess it's OK.
Let's see, I read this crazy Japanese crime novel called "Out" by Natsuo Kirino. Basically it's about what happens after a part time factory worker murders her husband and enlists the help of her factory buddies to deal with the body (they chop him into little bits, bag him, and disperse him throughout the city of Tokyo). For a great perspective on the reality that is Japan for females, read this book.
I have this week off work (until Saturday) because my student is on Spring Break. She got a 90% on her algebra final. Go C******!
I'm pretty wasted still from yoga - the crazy Thursday "Om" teacher really works us. I'm gonna slack off and wait for John to call (he and Shawn and Byllie are in town, and it's been wonderful).
Until next time.
Mar. 31st, 2005 @ 08:04 pm
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