Aug 6, 2005 | Heya

I do have to say a heartfelt thank you to the 200-some visitors who actually come across my blog each day; I promise that I won't dissapoint you all once I get my proper Internet connection back. (And yes, these random, uninteresting posts can be boring, I admit).

I sent my math exam packet to Swarthmore, so I'll just have to hope that my grades are good enough to get me into some level of Calculus that isn't too easy, though the exam itself was pretty difficult and challenging. I also have this nagging feeling that an information packet about who I'm sharing a dorm room with for the next semester is sitting in some post box back home. I'm anxious to know, and patience isn't exactly one of my points forts. Ah. Just imagining myself away from speaking some French is giving me the goosebumps.

I'm up to 10,527 words on my "Twenty-three Days in Tokyo", with 9 more days of chronicling everything I can that's interesting about Tokyo and its people, which is, in effect, why I'm not writing anything interesting in these small updates. I have a pretty sad feeling that once I have it all uploaded and all either my computer will crash and I'll lose it all, or that it'll look pretty uninteresting. It's like those science experiments you have all planned and you're sure that it's going to succeed, and when you actually go through with it, it ends up floundering like a fish gasping for air on the deck of some trawler. Ah well.

I'm in an inner turmoil right now... wanting to get back to Paris (for reasons that may become apparent soon), but not wanting to leave my parents. Argh. And I thought I wouldn't have difficulty leaving the nest, as it were. I'm not one to get homesick as much as others. Or so I thought.

Also written on this day..

• 2010: Dissecting Why Google Wave Failed
• 2003: A Final Goodbye