Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Today...

...was exams day, so i decided to take the day off and go to the local onsen. It was nice; I warmed up in the fizzy bath, sweated out toxins in the Mongolian sauna, had fresh kiwi juice, and read some Orwell in the napping area. Then I decided to really treat myself and get a body+facial massage. I've never had one before so I thought it was high time... I won't go into details, but she was quite thorough; it really didn't make sense to me. The only massages worth paying for are back, hand, feet, and face (this put me to sleep).

This past month has been dedicated to 'leaving:' meet and greets, farewell dinners, buying boxes, corresponding with my successor, packing the boxes, sorting my things only to donate 3/4 of it, planning my exit strategy, and passive aggressively quibbling with human resources. Now I'm avoiding the task at hand: reducing the box count.

In order to avoid parting with bits and pieces of myself as it feels like I've taken to filling said void with spurts of positive procrastination. I've learned so far that Washington's official muffin: blueberry and the state motto: 'by and by'...that's my kinda state. By and by i've also come to appreciate the world of ordering starbucks' esoteric concoctions; i'm ready to visit any of the 618 starbucks in Washington and stump any newbies with a self-important order. Actually i'd rather get a regular coffee, but it's nice to know i can order a customized 760cal monster if i wanted to...or at least that i can understand the guy that does...Yes this has been my attempt to study the ways of the Seattleite. Now that i've learned a bit about the stereotypical i'm ready to be reeducated.

by and by the packing will get done...