Hiromi Usagi!

I haven’t updated my blog for a while, and I was reading a book and watching movies—taking in many things inward as oppose to letting out of my thoughts ourward.

Did I say that I finished “memoirs of geisha.” ? I enjoyed it a lot. I thought it was a very well done fiction and made me think a lot of things right before going back to Japan. Before I read it, I was sort of skeptical about a story of geisha done by a non-Japanese male writer, but women’s emotion was very well told and Japanese way of communication/ competition/ survival, its subleness appear very nicely. There were some parts that I was unsure about what were the original words or phrases in Japanese, especially the dialogues. Oh well, it was a good novel, and I am sure that those who read this book including myself learned a lot about geisha and its culture which is not about prostitution or shallow entertainment at all.

Anyhow, I just finished “The curious incident of the dog in the night time.” Oh Christopher, a main boy charactor, I felt for him… I am not a math person, but still enjoyed it, so people, like YOU who are into math would love it!

A few days ago, Marcia told me that I had only 4 weeks left before going back to Japan while she was thinking about her plans. OMG…I have a lot of things to do before I go, but I have just been taking sweet times reading books I feel like or taking a long nap or soaking into a bathtub for a long time or put a lotion mask on my face and read a health care brochur or other things that I don’t have to do. Oh well, I love doing stuff like these though.

So I went to the intonation music festival last weekend. It was fun! I liked Magnolia electric company, Andrew Bird, and the decemberist. It was very hot and I got bug bites on my left eye lid on Sunday, so I was not comfortable. It was nice to hang out with my friends. That Sat was Marcia’s b-day, and we all had a good time! I was supposed to go to work by 4:30, but I ran into Jeff who works with me at Wabi told me that I could come in later like 7, so I could see Magnolica electric company. That was very very nice of him. Later that night, Marcia brought her friends who were at the festival to Wabi. I think that they had a good time eating yummy sushi. What a fun day it was! I got to hang out with Luca who has been back to Prague. I hadn’t seen him for a while, so when I saw him at Lula which I didn’t know he was there, I was very surprised in a very exciting way! Marcia said that she had the best b-day, and I am very happy that I was a part of it. Josh was wearing a yellow bandana thing around his neck looking like a boy scout—cute… Harper was there hanging out with us and bringing different people to us all the time. I met several people whom I haven’t seen for a while, which was sort of perfect before leaving Chicago.

I didn’t do much today, but reading the book–the curious incident— hang out with haper who kept making a weird noise with his mouth while playing his new laptop. His time schedule and mine are kind of opposite, so I don’t get to see him much although we live in the same place. His parents sent him a cartoon book about suicidal rabbits. It was hilarious, but rabbit is my favorite animal! I think that somebody brainwashed me by showing me many cute rabbit goods when I was baby. Becca and I went to Baby ‘R’ Us the other day, and I saw many many stuff with rabbits like baby clothes, toys, shoes, and so on. That made me speculate why I liked rabbit so much…

What should I read next?