At 6pm on Labor day the church near my apartment played America The Beautiful on their bells. I shall have to pay more attention to the church bells and determine if there is a pattern. Do they always play America The Beautiful at 6pm or is it special for Labor Day? Unfortunately, today is the [...]
Well, readers, I have successfully completed my first week as a graduate student. I have a lot of reading homework to do, but I think my classes will be interesting and fun. I met another girl in the LIS program who taught English in Japan for the last 4 years, she was in Shikoku and [...]
Laundry sure finishes quickly when there are multiple washers and dryers to use. None of this ‘one load at a time’ for me!
This weekend I attended my first class as a graduate student at Syracuse. It lasted two days and I am now one credit hour richer. It was difficult because there was a group project and presentation with people from different majors within the ischool. But I met a lot of really nice LIS students whom [...]
I am sitting on a bench watching people walk by and killing time before orientation. It is very weird. I don’t feel the excitement of the new students walking by. I feel more like an observer than participant. Maybe because I have been to college before. Anyways, the campus looks beautiful. And I just saw [...]
One thing about my new apartment that I really love is that I can hear church bells chiming every hour. Right now, I know that it is noon, because the bells are playing a song. I much prefer the church bells to the train sounds of my old apartment in Nagoya. Also, it is August. [...]
After driving about 13 hours with two cats, we made it to our new home around 10pm last night. During the first two hours of the drive Lizzy tore up the inside of her carrier, bloodied one of her front claws trying to escape, rubbed her nose raw on the mesh sides of her carrier, [...]
I got a new computer. It arrived in the mail yesterday and I am making my first update from it. It’s a cute little MacBook Pro. Can you guess what I named it? I’m sure Summer can (one of my names for Trifecta struck me as a good name for a laptop). Anyways. There are [...]
Darcy just surprised me by meowing in her sleep. It was a cross between talking to birds and hungry whine. Followed by smacking her lips. What is she dreaming about?
I feel like I spent the whole day putting in shelf paper.