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Name: Christina
Birthday: 9/26/1981
Gender: Female
Interests: midtown, tbs, yellowcard, brand new, n.e.r.d.
Expertise: poking, sitting, looking around
Message: message me
Member Since:
11/22/2002
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| apt- check.
car- check.
job- check.
ok, who wants to visit?? and i better get a higher response rate than for my japan offers (cept of course pli. <3)
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| damn. the past (almost) 2 months... what a rollercoaster!
anyway, now i can finally relax and actually enjoy my unemployment.
i've got the next step lined up and that's all i wanted. (special thanx
to my sister and dc/md friends for... a lot of things)
so for everyone who cares:
now-oct 28th ---> finishing up md
oct 29th-nov 16th --> west coast tour: SF, orgeon, seattle
nov17th-nov 21st --> philly and ny (in the works)
after that, it's thanksgiving in md and then i'm off to the west coast.
new coast, new city, new job, new apartment/kickass roommate, nice weather!!...
[also, concert-whore back in business! here's a summary:
- shins/white stripes - HOT! shins = awesome and the whites = HOT! (thanx sp <3)
(yes, I took that picture. yes, we were that close)
- beck - cute show! i wanna have my own personal dancer now (thanx sp <3)
- kaiser chiefs/weezer(!)/foo fighters(!) - did i mention i got to
meet dave grohl/foos? nice guys. everyone put on a great show, esp weezer.
dave grohl was from around the area and his 'rents and wife were at the
show. it was special.
- drive thru tour w/ fenix tx and allister - ahhh, just like college. nice.]
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| my life in a nutshell:
recently
- 3 wks backpacking in china ... fun fun cheap exhausting trains food hot fun
- left japan for good after 2 years ... said goodbye to friends, home, job, a city that i love
- back in maryland ... adjusting, unpacking, realizing i have too much stuff, letting go
coming up
- 9 day cruise ... food and sun and swimming and beaches and .... !
- concerts ... still wondering how i survived the past 2 yrs (minus rancid and green day)
- bridesmaid stuff ... damn i love it when friends find love
- job search and relocation search ... email me with good ideas/hookups/offers!
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| update only two weeks behind... not too shabby!
so the reason i was in tokyo the other week was because... i climbed
mount fuji!! and it was motherf-ing hard. luckily, the weather was
great and i had a fantastic climbing partner.
tradition is that you climb the mountain at night and then watch the
sunrise from the top, so that's what we did. thursday night, we get to
the mountain and its already pitch black dark. we didn't see anyone for
the first 3 hours and we weren't even sure if we were taking the right
path. i have to admit, it was pretty freaky/scary at first. [official
climbing season is july & august. we came early to beat the crowds,
which is good. downside is that it's pretty deserted] about 3 hours
into the climb, we rested at a hut for an hour, and then continued on
our way. or, as i remember it, we started a climb that felt like eternity, and then some.
the really cool part about the experience was that we basically had the
mountain to ourselves. that's what it felt like anyway. the only people
we ran into the entire time (total time was over 12 hrs) were the
people at the hut, and a handful of other climbers. being alone on a
very big mountain makes you feel really little- its a really
interesting thing to experience.
the crappy part was the actual climb. my body definitely wasn't
prepared for the ascention and i kindly donated an onigiri and whatever
water i had in me to the mountain (over the cliff outside our hut to be
exact). plus, after the first few hours, i had walked over enough
volcanic leftovers and loose rocks to last me a lifetime.
anyway, the torture and neverending zigzags payed off when we saw the
sun rise around 4:30. it was beautiful. there's something so serene and
calming about watching the sun rise with clouds below you and clouds
above you. we really couldn't have picked better weather conditions.
the view from the summit was pretty great, too. the crater at the top
was still enveloped in snow and it really showed what a different world
the top is from the world at the bottom.
the rest of the weekend was spent onsening, exploring kamakura with our
new stranger-friend, eating gobs of food, and window shopping in ginza.
good times.
the experience was a test on so many levels - physically, mentally...
and a very humbling experience. i'm really glad i did it (def ranks up
there in my "favorite things i did in japan" folder) but there is
no way that i would ever EVER do it again. anyone who has climbed mt
fuji knows exactly what i'm talking about. m(^_^)m
HAPPY (BELATED) BDAY JOE! I WAS CLIMBING A BIG MTN ON YOUR BIRTHDAY TO CELEBRATE YOUR SPECIAL DAY. YAY! <3
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| i'm off to tokyo again tomorrow! we've got big plans... hopefully i'll
come back with some good updates. i read an article today about how
tokyo is the most expensive city in the world, again. d'oh! click here to see what other cities made the list.
in other news, the girls and i picked up our mikimoto pearls on
saturday. they're beyoootiful and stunning. i wasn't surprised to learn
that mikimoto makes the miss universe crown. frickin bling bling!
you'll also remember seeing mikimoto being featured in an episode of
ANTM season 3 (the one where the girls are in tokyo and eva and ann go
to the mikimoto store and get to take home a pearl necklace. damn i love that show).
lately, i've been a bit consumed by packing and getting things in order
before i leave. but, i've realized that as things are coming together,
there is still so much more to look forward to.
there definitely is a silver lining in this cloud...
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