Special Agent Lopez

Yo, this is special agent Lopez asking you how the fuck you are doing? I just got your e-mail and so here we go. Have you tried the Japanese food yet, that is where you are right, Japan? I just got accepted to University of Arizona for fall 2002 and everything here is Arcata-ish know what i mean? e-mail back, i can't wait to hear about your crazy geisha girls stories. YEAH!!!

This Notebook Analysis is part of retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.

from My Academic Advisor

[An email from my academic advisor for my time in China.]

Hello each of you, please take a minute to register with the US Embassy in Beijing.  Reasons are copied below.  You may want to peruse their website anyway.

(from the website of the US Embassy in P.R. China)

If you're going to be in China for any extended period of time, please register with us. Registration is to your advantage in that it will enable us to locate you in case of a family emergency, and helps keep us better informed of the number and location of American citizens in the event of a large-scale emergency. We are required by law to keep any information you give us completely confidential, and will release it ONLY when authorized by you to do so. You can register online by clicking here [link removed].

This Notebook Analysis is part of retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.

Our Last Day

I found an email from a girlfriend I broke up with as I was getting ready to fly to China.

She said that she wanted to get in touch but didn’t seem to know what to say.  The correspondence indicates that we made our farewells properly but she clearly didn’t believe that this is the case and was utterly confused over what to say.  She then indicated that she didn’t really want to take me for granted.

One thing she said I found poetic—that the other side of a certain crossing seemed like a pit that she didn’t want to visit.  She had had a farewell party for me and related some of the bits over who had not been able to come—and who missed me.  She expressed love for me and for our times together.  She indicated that our last day or so together may have only been made sweet by my imminent departure.  However, she also indicated that she may have been making more out of things than was warranted.

The emails closing words were of the phrase she kept repeating to herself to allow me to go.

This Notebook Analysis is part of retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.

Another Girlfriend

Right after the period covering the last post I received an email from the most recent ex-girlfriend.  Ironic how many girlfriends I had during this period since I always felt that I was single.  We, apparently, were working through our differences.

Up to this point I was communicating a lot with another girlfriend in Virginia about whether she would come to visit California.  Meanwhile, my old roommates had been traveling a lot.  In an ironic twist one of the roommates was living in the town that I had visited with the old girlfriend.  I sent poetry back and forth to them through much of December.  I also sent a number of emails to the professor in charge of my upcoming trip to China.  This is rather exciting since it was really my first trip out of the country.  My Southern California friend and I communicated a little about our Christmas plans.  I figured that he would go home to the foothills but we saw each other eventually.

This Notebook Analysis is part of retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.

Mike Shoening

I only sent out one email around this date.  It was to my friend in Southern California that was contemplating a trip to Mexico.  I emailed him to see what he was planning.  Mike Shoening had called me a few weeks before about a plant that eats socks.  I think that this was made up or something.  Later I sent my number to my bud in Southern California.  I suppose he was coming to the city and I of course was planning on going there too.

This Notebook Analysis is part of retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.

Morphemes

I wrote a lot of Chinese in the notebook for weeks. I also wrote some basic grammar stuff too. Morphemes, homework, test, inflection and case were a bunch of words I wrote down. I wrote a bunch of stuff about parts of speech.

This Notebook Analysis is part of retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.

A Social Scientist

I wrote my first notes for three classes. One is a class about how to write like a social scientist. My writing in the notebook plainly needs some work. I also wrote about the cartography class I enrolled in. We went over geometry, spatial data and levels of measurement. I remember typology was difficult. I kept notes for my intercultural communication class. I always write phone numbers in these notebooks. I also kept some notes for my second language acquisition class.

This Notebook Analysis is part of retrospective of my life taken from emails that I sent or received on the First of the Month.