today i went to the sasano fire festival. arimoto-san took me for soba and then we stood in the freezing cold (nihongo for cold=sumui) for 2 hours watching people chant, etc, and walk across a fire with bare feet. ive posted pictures on the picture site. that needs a better name.
im seriously considering graduate school for january 2006. which is scary. and i really want to research my sponsor and read all of their work, and meet them a few times. but the reason to start in january is that i think i want to do my masters in 3 years instead of two. for this reason. maybe ill start by saying what i want to do my masters in?
okay, so i want to get my masters degree at unbc (in the illustrious prince george) via the department of interdisciplinary studies. not history? what? well, this is my intended area of study: postmodern canadian historical fiction. i want to spend the first two years doing non-fiction research in regards to theoretical and literal approaches to the topic. ie. reading 'who killed canadian history' by granatstein, and 'beautiful losers' by cohen a million times. and doing a massive non-fiction paper on the topic. and then in my third year i want to apply everything that i learned and write my own postmodern canadian historical creative non-fiction. kinda like a novel. so, i have to hunt out a sponsor for this monstrosity of work, as well as convince unbc to accept me with my B average grades from SFU, and i wanna do it on scholarship. a big feat, yes. but we'll see...................
im tired, and i have to pee, badly. but i dont do squating, and no western toilets are immediately available. ha ha. i've put 10,000yen aside to go to sendai next weekend, but im starting to realize that i have no need to go to sendai. the only thing that i would get there would be the tegan and sara cd for kalin (but i doubt id find it there, and i could just order it through tower records, so no worries!!!), and douglas coupland's new book. but maybe i should just wait for eleanor rigby. really. and id rather take that 10,000yen and spend it on going to a movie with eiko, or ramen with naho, or a pseudo-coffee-date with jason at mr. donut. and id rather save my travelling excitement for fucking kyoto, and hokkaido, where i am going to be a total tourist. i mean, in hokkaido im gonna go to the sapporo brewery and to the winter olympics museum, rent a car, and drive down the southern peninsula, etc. it'll be a lot of fun. and kyoto. supposedly there are geisha tours. i cant figure out if this is a good thing or not. but if i deem it is a good thing then im going to do it. i just dont know. any moral imput would be nice.
ga, im having troubles signing up for the national health insurance program and just had to divert student loan money onto my visa so i can renew my traveller's health insurance for another three months. a whopping $165. sorry canada student loans! i better not have to do this every three months.
im running away, pseudo-coffee-date to attend to and a bit of grocery shopping in jujiya. maybe ill buy myself another hanky. and this time a burberry one. oh how i spoil myself. ha ha. xoxo di.
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Read Memoires of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. There's also some good and recent non-fiction written about the history and current situations of the Geisha culture.
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