August 27, 2005 Today 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 up a notebook and some pens. I [...]
August 26, 2005 What 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 was hearing that he got into [...]
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 some final work for my lunch [...]
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. And how Tiger woods says he’s [...]
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 note that a lot is just summary – not much [...]