hello 2018
I’ve been gone another long spell, mostly doing beany things in japan---striking up weird friendships with people who find fart talk delightful, picking up after my many, many boys, scrambling to finish my experiments and thesis, and being my desperately single self. I spent almost all of this year in japan. weird to think that over a year has gone by since I moved for grad school, and it’s weirder still to come back to LA and realize, whoa, LA is a way stranger place than I remember it being! basically, I don’t want to ever come back. if I can find a good employment situation in japan, I’m staying there, probably permanently.
I didn’t think I would fall in love with living in japan as much as I did. I’m kind of scared that I’ll hate it as soon as I graduate and all my classmates go back to their home countries, and I’ll have to cope with being a working adult who can’t be running around with undergrads all the time like I used to. I hate the thought of being an adult away from home (though I’ve also really liked this year of real independence), but I’m 26 now (christ, I’ll never stop feeling mortified about that when I’m friends with 20-24 year olds); I gotta buck up and get my shit together sooner or later. also, I have a fuckton of student debt I have to do something about. sigh.
so, to 2018! if your 2017 wasn’t that great, I hope your 2018 is better; if your 2017 was alright, then I hope your 2018 is amazing.
(and maybe one day I’ll remember my love of pedals...)