June 2008
8 posts
Kyoto: A bullet train ride into the past
It’s hard not to be cliche when it comes to travel writing. After all, unless it’s spelunking beneath the Arctic tundra, someone probably had the same experience a long time ago. Add to that the pack mentality that most travelers fall back on and you have a whole lot of people experiencing, then blogging, about the same stuff. This is especially true when it comes to the pedestrian...
Return to Nippon
This being my second visit to Japan, I knew I would have to go out of my way to find the cultural shock-and-awe that I experienced the first time around. Tokyo feels surprisingly familiar to me, but I think that has more to do with having lived in NYC than the fact that I was here for a few days in 2006. Give me a subway map in English and I’m good to go. I found a cheesy quote in a tourist...
March 2008
1 post
Phase IV: Law School
Went to Lawrence today to check out apartments for law school. Yep, finally decided to go to KU. The scholarships helped make this decision—the much more expensive Notre Dame ran a close second—but I really just waited to see how each team did in the NCAA tournament. If you were paying any attention, my decision didn’t end up being that hard given this criteria!