Accepted to Grad School

I applied for the Asian Studies master's degree program at the U of U, and was accepted for Fall 2009. I've got my schedule worked out and have signed up for my classes. 4 of them will count for the major, and one of them won't because it's just a 1000 level class that I'm taking to better prepare for grad school at Hawaii. Yuko will also be going to school at the U (assuming we can both get residency tuition... if we don't, the milkman will make his strike). In fact, all 4 classes she is taking are 4 that I'm taking too. So she'll be able to take all of her classes with me. Score 1 for us against the textbook Nazis. Suckaz!

We'll go to the U of U for a year, and then I will (hopefully) go to Hawaii for 2 years to get master's degrees in Japanese and Anthropology. After that, I want to get a PhD in Anthropology. Right now, I either want to do that in Hawaii, or I might be able to get it (or do part of it) through Hawaii while going to a school in Japan and doing research. That's still 3 years away though, so who knows what will happen.

Florida Video

So I finally got the video for our trip to Florida (July 2006) done. I was planning on editing it right after I edited our trip to California when we got here in the Japans in late 2006. But after I got done with the video for California, I looked everywhere for the Florida tape, but it was nowhere. The only place I thought it could be was in my camera that I left home. So I had that sent over, and we got it open by taking it to an electronics store here (they didn't send the power chord with it, because they had no idea where in the frick it was). Anyway, it was in there, and I just finished editing it. I put it up on youtube, but the audio was disabled almost immediately. Those nazis are getting pretty quick with that stuff. So you can check it out either on Facebook, or the video page on my website (under 2006).

Nabana 2008 Video

This is the video from when we went to Nabana no Sato last year.



Better video quality here.