Hiromi Usagi!

I finished The World According to Garp today. What a life…. It seemed real, I mean I hope it was real, maybe not. It is too harsh… I like that Garp’s family loves each other, although so many tragic accidents happened. I wonder what baby Jenny ended up doing in her later life…oh it is not real…..

I just started Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore. One of the beginning scene is about my home town, Yamanshi, and the doctor’s last name is Nakazawa just like mine. I don’t know where the rice ball hill is supposed to be….. I like it so far. I want to keep reading and reading….

I want to finish my master’s thesis for real… I just need to revise it…I will do it tomorrow… I will, I said I will…. I love doing it, but I was doing other stuff, like jobs, scholarship, decision making, work. I need to be multi-tasking. I think that one course at a time at Cornell College was not practical in a real life. One course for 3 weeks and done! and move on to the next one… I liked it, because I felt accomplished every 3 weeks. Life doesn’t run this way though. I am getting better at it.

I am sympathetic to the main character of Kafka on the Shore. I should not talk about it too much though. You guys should read it and talk to me individually. But I just started, so don’t tell me the whole story if you have read it. Murakami is good at creating characters who are not fit in mainstream society. I think that whoever likes murakami sometimes feel this way–not quite fit in a society. I think that there are things that the society expects you to be doing certain things in certain points of your life. If you are not doing it, somebody punches you not physically, but psychologically. Reading murakami makes me feel that I am not the only one. He even makes these people look cool. He made me think I could be cool… Could I ?