Archive for August, 2005
Sunday, August 28th, 2005
August 27, 2005Today was last-minute preparations for Tokyo! I can't believe I'm going! It's finally hit me - that bug of excitement and jittery feeling of being nervous and anxious at the same time. I went to Subway with Jenny and then to the bookstore to pick ...
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Sunday, August 28th, 2005
August 26, 2005What a great last day of work! I actually didn't do any work; I had lunch with Gordon Chang and learned a lot about his interest in history, how he got started, and his life at Princeton, in Oakland, and also about his family. Most interesting ...
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Friday, August 26th, 2005
August 25, 2005 My meeting with Carolyn went well - now I'm almost, almost, almost done! I did lots of errands and tasks to prepare for my trip to Tokyo; returning library books, packing a few suitcases I'm storing at the Roosevelt offices for a few weeks, and doing ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2005
August 24, 2005 I did a whole bunch of scanning for Gordon today. It was pretty mindless but I learned some things here and there - like racism concerning Asian athletes with headlines on MSNBC such as "American beats Kwan for Gold" - wtf Kwan is an American too. ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Written August 23, 2005 in between games of Word Racer and then after jogging campus loop, scanning overheads, eating lunch, sleeping, etc. A lot has happened. A lot I don’t remember. Good and bad. When I look back at what I’ve written, it’s interesting to ...
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Saturday, August 20th, 2005
i'll update soon...don't worry!
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
August 16, 2005 Its been a long time since I've updated, and for that, I'm sorry; I'll update soon enough. I'm only updating to let everyone know that I almost died today. Seriously. Chris and I were riding to Arrillaga gym. We crossed the street and were ...
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Thursday, August 11th, 2005
Yo it's me. I am going to take generous liberties with your xanga while you are 3,000 miles away and can't do anything. =P If you flip through your xanga, you will see that beginning in spring quarter, every now and then "Jenny" will make a sly unannounced appearance. I ...
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Thursday, August 11th, 2005
I'm now in Poughkeepsie, New York! I left Cali on the red eye flight with Chris Walker on Tuesday evening to attend the Roosevelt Conference that we're hosting. Getting here was quite the experience. After we arrived in NY at 6am (or 3am Pacific time), we spent 2 hours ...
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
August 8, 2005 Let's eat. Harry, Chris, Ken, and I ate at Tresidder for lunch. After some lollygagging in the A3C, I went to Special Collections to look at some PhD dissertations written in 1925/1921. Both were studies of Chinese/Japanese school children during that time period - both found ...
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