First Forty

Today we played hockey in gym and we watched Escape From Planet of the Apes.

Preparing for JET interview; brief overview of Japanese culture and education system; no time to review TESL course notes; run to de-stress; make photo for my interview voucher; spend an hour ironing shirt and shining shoes.

Wake up feeling a bit out of it; finish“Barrio Boy”; play guitar; get the bike out; go running, make dinner; write short paper from AMST but can't find the motivation; too tired to concentrate so I go to sleep; Descartes would have done much the same.

Mom and Tom leave Warrenville after the old man who owns the house where they rented kept coming around a little too often. Patti and Lucy help them move to Elmhurst Terrace apartments.

St. Patrick's Day; buy college guide; consider Bradley and Millikin as possible future schools; call Beth; says she can't go to soccer game with me; Jim won't "let" her go...; Mom and Dad having another talk with Todd; while talking about schools, Mom gets the wrong idea about the classes she's taking.

At school we started our Social Studies report. I also went jogging 2 miles with my dad.

Get some things for Yumi at the bookstore; I have to go to San Jose to get me suit fitted but Marcel and Muria have the car; end up going on my scooter; Yumi made a cake for me at Kiyoko's the night before, as well as an origami bouquet; what a sweetie.

Good Philosophy discussion section; meet with Brook at Oakes after class; go to a couple of events that fizzle; I'm tired, but go to Redroom; upstairs this girl is throwing herself at me to make her boyfriend jealous; I'm out; spend $30!

"While You Were Away" part 2 (answering machine messages)

Think more about being "stuck in DuPage county"; feel that I'm being left behind; realize that I need to get away from Wheaton; maybe go to another school in Illinois with Grant?; Mom supports this decision, knows that Todd and I are aware that she and Dad are having problems; time to do something different.