Midaregami

It’s pretty weird here. It’s starting to gradually sink in: I moved to freaking Hawai’i. You know all those pictures you see? The tropical paradise kind? Yeah, they’re all totally true. From the living room of our 9th-floor penthouse apartment (seriously) I can see Manoa Valley, this ridiculously verdant landform that gets misty rainbows in it like every day. When J and I walked across campus, we enjoyed shade provided by huge jungle trees, with the calls of tropical birds echoing through the canopy. Seriously, it’s weird.

Miss J tells a more complete story over at her journal, but to summarize: The post-long-distance-move anxiety is back, nearly at Japan levels. Experience tells me that this will pass over the course of weeks or, at worst, a few months, but it’s unpleasant in the meantime. Also, I expect that once the semester starts I will have little time or energy for culture shock. I expect that even my vast, inscrutable intellect will be well-occupied for the foreseeable future.

Other, less-easily paragraphed points:

• I’ve had a raging caffeine headache since a couple of days ago. Coffee, why have you forsaken me?

• Jake is showing us “Lost,” which is supposed to be awesome. I can say with confidence that I am glad we (by which I mean, J) did not watch it prior to our transoceanic flight. The first episode was good. What was that thing?

• There’s an EALL grad student lounge that only grad students are allowed in. Miss J found this way more exciting than I did, but admittedly, the ability to ruthlessly discriminate against my inferiors (i.e., undergrads) does have a certain appeal.

Plans for tomorrow: hit up the bike shop for a lock and a helmet, then lay siege to visit the EALL department.

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