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January 07, 2006
From Tokyo to LA (and back)
As is customary during holiday periods I made a trip back to visit friends and family in California, which if you’ll allow me to be cynical for a moment, often looks a lot like this:
During this period the harddrive in my laptop crashed and was finally repaired just the day before I returned to Tokyo (therefore no posting). I needed a disconnected break anyways. I visited just about every person who I am truly close to and love in the world (they are fairly few and almost all occupying the west coast of California), observing their lives and comparing to my own, weighing my decision to live the way I do, currently at a point in which my home is neither quite here or there.
The other main thing I did on vacation was become completely infatuated with Kate Bush.
I haven’t even so much as opened my work email through this entire break, and the benfits of it are more than palpable. I feel more like a human (and less machine-like) than I have in a long time, able to see clearly where I am going, what I am doing and why. I’m starting to remember who I am, though certainly that will start into a gradual dilution again as soon as I go back to work on Tuesday.
I have a lot of catching up to do. Here’s too a prosperous two thousand six.
あけましておめでとうございます！
Posted by shane at January 7, 2006 08:31 AM