It's okay that it was cold and rainy. Don't care. The social side of my day trumps that.

Around 12:30 I met up with Mami, whom I went to Berklee with. She's a sweet and super-fun girl from Japan. (She and her boyfriend [not husband] came to stay at my family's house in Orlando and were great guests.) So we went to lunch in Harvard Square and just ( Read more... )

Hiroshima is very new, and so is this feeling of having more family. We went to Miyajima (World Heritage Center) and it's very impressive. I will post pictures later, but for now I'll just say that I like my cousins. The kids are about my age, the oldest being 24 and the other three decreasing in increments of 2 (22, 20, 18). The two boys (22 and ( Read more... )

I've been in Niihama for a month now. I've got less than 2 weeks left here. Next weekend I'm going to meet my cousins in Hiroshima, and I'm seriously excited! But I'm also sad that I have to leave. This town has been a great place for me to center myself and be alone. I forgot how much I really enjoy being alone ( Read more... )

My dad called me on Skype from his cell. He and my mom are in Utah at the family reunion on my mother's side. I really never knew much about that side but apparently my grandmother's close relatives had married Caucasians so a good deal of them are mixed like me and my mom. I also just found out that many of them are musically talented--they even ( Read more... )

I'm reading The Time Traveler's Wife and it is heartbreaking ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, Grandma Mits. I miss you.

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My Great-Aunt Dottie (93) and her daughter Judi (62?) died today during the night, a few hours apart. Judi was sick ( Read more... )

I don't know if I have the right to write about this ( Read more... )

and now I want a kid? It's like this biological alarm went off. I keep hitting snooze but it keeps chiming in every ten minutes ( Read more... )

My second cousin Leah and her mom Joyce picked me up today and we went to the MFA and saw the David Hockney exhibit. It was AMAZING.

A few minutes ago I started sifting through my photos and saw ones of FL I took while driving and it made me miss it (FL). I miss Austin Coffee & FIlm. I miss...people.