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12 Days

Sunday, June 13th, 2004

I am going to learn Japanese in the next 12 days with the help of Mr. Pimsleur (hope that link works) and MyPod. Wish me luck.

Friday, June 4th, 2004

I’m in Seattle! Yay! And the more I wear my shoes the less comfy they get. I’m seeing Harry Potter today too… so exciting!

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

Erin is in Israel now. The pictures prove it — choose “birthright israel, national 1” to see what’s going on with her trip. In 1998 when I went on the March of the Living, we were the first to bring a digital camera and update a website from the trip. It was the first time […]

Tuesday, May 25th, 2004

Today we pulled over voluntarily at a speed trap. Well, we thought the police man was signaling us over. After waiting a few minutes, we realized the police man was ignoring our car. So we asked the dude, and in fact we were not pulled over. So then we continued on our merry way. And […]

Monday, May 24th, 2004

There’s roadkill on my street. It’s a skunk. Gross – I know. So I called the city. The woman I spoke to told me I should move the dead skunk to the side of the road and call tomorrow for someone to come remove it. I told the woman she was crazy if she thought […]

Friday, May 21st, 2004

Tonight I was hanging out with a non techy friend of mine. She got a phone call, so I started playing Rummy Cube/Q/O on her computer. After she finished the call and was watching me play, she wished aloud that the game had a multi player mode. It took a minute, and then I went […]

Monday, May 17th, 2004

Do you think in Japan everyone really folds their clothes like this? I guess I will find out pretty soon!

Planning Has Begun

Sunday, May 16th, 2004

Check out plans for Japan here.There’s not much on the site yet, but that should change in the next few weeks. Thanks to mattycakes for taking pity on the technically challenged.

Saturday, May 15th, 2004

As If things weren’t bad enough, now 23 is underage.

Thursday, May 13th, 2004

Healing is itchy.