Rurouni: It's been a month since I last posted

Man, I am such a great procrastinator! hahahahaha

Seriously though, a whole month. ooops.

As my mother, and countless others, can attest, I've always been particularly good at putting things off. It's a testament to my ability to pull things together at the last minute that I ever made it through high school, college, and graduate school :D

My current procrastination projects include (but are not limited to):

cleaning my apartment (been putting that one off successfully for weeks!)
packing things up to ship back to Colorado
laundry
looking for a job post-JET (aka after July)
packing for India
...and this blog

My preferred methods of procrastination usually entail books, tv, and internet, in addition to just plain removing myself from the situation entirely by doing something like going in to town ^_^

I don't really have a coherent story to put together for you of recent events, other than to say the school year concluded and started again, I went to Thailand for spring break, went to my last Takayama festival, and today is my birthday :)

In celebration of the successful completion of my third decade, here are some pictures of recent happenings. Time, it would seem, is something you just can't avoid, no matter how good of a procrastinator you are ;)

Part of the book I received from the kids graduating from Kuguno. I had them for all 3 of their junior high years! Amazing doesn't even begin to describe them :)