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State of My Life

1:26pm IST Friday 08 July 2005

State of My Life Address

1. I'm on Pb's 49th Global Voyage, between Bergen, Norway and Dublin, Ireland. We'll arrive in Ireland at 5am tomorrow.

2. For most of the ports, I have chosen to simply wander around with little or no pre-planning. Plenty of fun has been had in this manner. Hanging out in the internet cafe next to the boat in Norway resulted in meeting a cool guy named Thomas who told me a lot about his country. In Le Havre I joined Kris and Dave plus a couple Japanese passengers walking around and chowing at a couple different cafes and a picnic next to an old church. In Italy, wild and exotic fish and fruits were viewed and chowed at the local markets. Plus we zoomed over to Taormina for a fun time climbing. Memories of Barcelona excursion from La Rambla to Park Gruell (sp) via Sagrada Familia with Niveen will always be cherished.

3. I lept into the frigid pool yesterday just for fun. I tried to escape the water faster than humanly possible, but I was limited by my own beliefs in physics.

   I declared it to have been the worst possible idea ever, so when I did it again, Brandt was like, "you're worst idea ever has been replaced by a new worst idea ever: jumping in a second time."

   If I do it enough times, the first time could be considered sheer genius.

4. I am super tired. It's the middle of the afternoon but I'm falling asleep on this couch.

5. I have kissed three women on the boat. Two others I have tried to kiss, but they were too smart for me.

6. Super busy; super tired on the boat; I think that is contributing to my angsty mood.

7. The salsa performance is complete, and the initial Get to Know a GET Teacher things are complete. So I am not in the midst of 'preparing' for anything

8. We are 5 or 6 days (of 15) into the second semester of classes already.

9. I had Niveen come to both my classes and the students interviewed her after Dublin.

10. We just had Irish Night last night, and I was in a grouchy mood.

11. Minorou is our roommate these days. I am glad our room is so close to Topaz Dining and to the classes.

12. I have yet to do a video tour of the boat, but I would like to at some point.

13. I have about 60 euros remaining. Maybe 45 left over from Europe. But we are out of Euro-accepting countries. Oh, save Ireland.

14. I got the new version of Where In The World, and have been testing it for bugs a bit.

15. I haven't totally missed the internet as much as I thought I might. It's been so busy on the boat and there is so much to do. I am trusting the advice to just go go go.

16. I will meet my Staff GET student soon, for the first time. Her name is Yasuko, I think.

17. I haven't met my Japanese teachers in a while.

18. I am recording this into tape 14, and have transcribed through tape 3.

19. I am falling asleep as I write this.