2008-02-01 - 4:37 p.m.
General Apology for Lameness
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To everyone who has been disappointed by my lame one-line emails as of late (or, worse yet, no emails at all) I apologize.
I would like to make it clear that it is absolutely not my intention to slight anyone. This regrettable lack of forthcoming information has resulted from the simple fact that I really don't have any information to share.
Lest my boredom spread, like a foul disease, I have done my upmost to keep it to myself, and to spare you, friends, from this blight.
I pledge to do everything I can to become interesting again once the weather gets a little warmer. (Please don't give up on me forever!) In the meantime, the following is the email I just sent my mom, and a perfect example of the kind of boring that I'm hoping to spare you from.
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To: XXXXXXXXXX (my mom)
From: ELOFTING@HOTMAIL.COM
Sorry I haven't been in touch for so long. This has been mainly because I really just don't have anything new and exciting to share. I got pink eye, that was kind of interesting. And then I caught a cold, but that wasn't very interesting at all.
My job tried to give me a promotion. It would've meant a whole lot more work for not very much more money, so I turned it down. Still, it was kind of nice to know that my bosses don't think I'm incompetent.
A friend of mine recently moved to Osaka and I went to visit there for a few days last month. That was fun. On the way back, I somehow bought the wrong tickets for the train, then managed to talk my way out of having to pay the difference. That was fun too. Appearently my language skills are now strong enough to be able to swindle the JR Rails ticket staff. Good.
Shuhei are I are going to see Hamlet next month. That should be interesting. Hamlet in Japanese. Not even Japanese though, Hamlet in Tohoku-ben. (Tohoku-ben being the dialect of the North.) Some nerd from Sendai University actually translated Hamlet into Tohoku-ben! This is exciting to me. And though I do secretly wish that we were going to see Titus Andronicus, I've decided to be grateful for the fact that at least it isn't Romeo and Juliet. Anyways, I don't know how much of this I should expect to be able to understand but, happily, I found the Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet on sale for a dollar, so I've been watching that to prepare myself.
The old guy who runs a cake shop in our neighborhood has offered to teach me his recipe for fruit daifuku, which is pretty much the only reason I go to his shop. (That daifuku is seriously delicious.) I think that maybe he has a little crush on me. That, or he's just really bored. Anyways, I guess I'm going to learn how to make fruit daifuku soon. That should be fun.
Take care
-erin
