Kon-nichi wa

4/5/09
22:29

It is a rule aboard the ship to wear shoes. 

I am over shoes.

I have not worn shoes for the past five or so days while on the ship, unless I am working out.  Stickin’ it to the man.

Tomorrow = Japan.  I am so excited for Japan.  It is going to be an adventure.  And I am traveling with Jill for the first time since Morocco….so it’s been like a lifetime.  AND Jill’s twenty-first birthday is April 8, so I get to celebrate with her….IN JAPAN.  Awesome.

And I am connecting with Mark Schumacher, an old family friend whom I haven’t seen in over a decade.  He sent me a picture today from the last time he saw me.  It’s the one of Nate and me in our striped sweaters and jeans at the Sculpture Garden next to the Cherry on the Spoon.  Soo that was like kindergarten.  I’ve changed just a bit.  Not too much, though.  We are meeting up on my last day in Japan.

 AAAAH JAPAN! I have to go pack my life into a huge, fake, Vietnamese Northface backpack now.