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Once upon a time...
Oct. 28th, 2006 01:11 amThere was a girl. She had red hair. She lived in the wilds of Austin with her boyfriend and went to college. And occasionally she had a few minutes to breathe.
( But not this last week! )
Ok, I can't stand writing in the third person anymore. Thursday was homework filled, although I think I'm talking to Tyler about the work website every ten minutes or so.
But the best part of the week was Friday!!
Started out with a Japanese quiz that I finally got 100 on, then had lunch with a friend, found out there's one summer program in Japan from the study abroad office, and went back to get my entry into grad school mostly straightened out (there are still some things that need to fall into place - namely money, but i can't do anything about it at the moment so I'm not gonna).
The middle was this talk by a distinguished Japanese scholar Ian Buruma, where most of the Japanese program people showed up, especially two of my favorites right now, and one of my professors from the summer I absolutely adore. We had drinks afterwards, and I got to meet Susan Napier!! (This gets the double exclamation points because this is the woman that I actually went to UT to learn from - and who quit before I could ever take a class with her. Apparently she's still in Austin.
The best, best part of all that? She's currently doing her research in yaoi (that's Japanese boy/boy manga) and interested in how and why and where it's coming into the US, and I totally got into a slash discussion with her! With my peers around me. And said something interesting! And they were impressed (and a little bit eyebrows raised because I knew the lingo, but whatever). It was absolutely fabulous!
Plus, to put a cherry on the cake, my beloved took me out to dinner tonight at this fabulous little grill. We had scrumptious fries, yummy wine, delightful burgers, and good conversation. We kept the bubbly momentum of the day going all the way through the evening.
( But not this last week! )
Ok, I can't stand writing in the third person anymore. Thursday was homework filled, although I think I'm talking to Tyler about the work website every ten minutes or so.
But the best part of the week was Friday!!
Started out with a Japanese quiz that I finally got 100 on, then had lunch with a friend, found out there's one summer program in Japan from the study abroad office, and went back to get my entry into grad school mostly straightened out (there are still some things that need to fall into place - namely money, but i can't do anything about it at the moment so I'm not gonna).
The middle was this talk by a distinguished Japanese scholar Ian Buruma, where most of the Japanese program people showed up, especially two of my favorites right now, and one of my professors from the summer I absolutely adore. We had drinks afterwards, and I got to meet Susan Napier!! (This gets the double exclamation points because this is the woman that I actually went to UT to learn from - and who quit before I could ever take a class with her. Apparently she's still in Austin.
The best, best part of all that? She's currently doing her research in yaoi (that's Japanese boy/boy manga) and interested in how and why and where it's coming into the US, and I totally got into a slash discussion with her! With my peers around me. And said something interesting! And they were impressed (and a little bit eyebrows raised because I knew the lingo, but whatever). It was absolutely fabulous!
Plus, to put a cherry on the cake, my beloved took me out to dinner tonight at this fabulous little grill. We had scrumptious fries, yummy wine, delightful burgers, and good conversation. We kept the bubbly momentum of the day going all the way through the evening.
