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First I was really sad about having to say no to a job interview because I wouldn't be able to get a ride to it within the scheduled time.

But now I feel better about it since the city of Buffalo is closed after the massive windstorm broke the ice boom keeping all the ice that formed over the top of Lake Erie from flowing down the Niagara river in huge chunks and clogging everything up, and now power is out in most places and the ice is clogging everything and causing floods.

In that case, I should have said yes anyway...

*feels sad again*

It's been snowing like crazy over by my dad and step-mom's place. They were going to go to San Jose to see me off before my flight to Hawaii, but they couldn't make it sad

Miri: trying to get a place out here huh? which island? you should come to Oahu so that i have someone to hang out with xd

I'd prefer to live on the Big Island or Kauaʻi, but I'd settle for Oʻahu as it has enough modern conveniences and Japanese stuff to make my boyfriend happy.

I was thinking of spending the next several months saving up money, then moving to the islands for at least a year for some independent study on volcanic rocks and some general making-it-on-your-own. I just graduated from college and it seems like a graduatey thing to do.

Tell me if you ever see any advertisements for super cheap apartments.

congratulations, hanae! uh... what's erlham?

@miri: yes, gaia needs to have arm warmers. the only ones available are those zebra-striped thingies, but they only go on one arm. rawr.

mm, i never really got to do any of that post-graduatey stuff like travel/intern/take time off. i can't wait for my very first year-long sabbatical.

@vin: nope, freezing rain is not fun at all. especially if you have to drive. do you think you'll get a snow day? xD everytime it snows here, even just a little, i wish for a snow day. i suppose that happens because i've grown up in a place with no snow at all.

all my life, i wanted snow. and now that there's truckloads of it here, i am wishing it would all go away. or at least completely clear it from the places where we have to walk and drive. i miss being able to walk and drive without fearing for my life.

Hey, my english Professor is on sabbatical this semester.
And no, we wont have a snow day... everyone lives on campus, and most of the teachers live close enough that if they cant drive, they can walk. XD
Some of the teachers cancel, (like when we had the ice storm) but none of mine did.

Hanae: Contrats!

Jen: I would... If I knew what I wanted.

Oh man... I didn't realize how many different pieces need to be pixed to have a complete set of mix-n-match elements for all the different Sailor fuku (and that's not counting any of the Starlights or Asteroid or Animamates).

2 bodices
2 collars
3 collar stripe styles
3 waistbands
3 sleeves
2 front bows
3 back bows
3 gloves
9 boots/shoes
11 lockets
... plus tiaras, earrings, chokers, weapons...

My ultimate goal is to be a "mafic igneous petrologist", which means I want to be an expert at already-hardened lava (imafic lava in specific, which is high in Iron and Magnesium and is what the Hawaiian volcanoes spit out) and their related volcanic features. That means all of the islands are good for me to be on, because each has almost exclusively volcanic rock in various stages of erosion.

A Volcanologist, on the other hand, studies the ongoing or future aspects of active/dormant volcanoes. They'd all want to be on the Big Island, measuring temperatures, recording earthquakes, and doing other boring and mundane tasks.

Igneous Petrologists get to crawl all over the rocks, hammering, collecting samples, and enjoying a few cool ones with their field assistants. It's a much more casual and independent job.

Volcanologists study volcanoes to prevent loss of life and valuable property. Igneous Petrologists don't care what dies or gets destroyed as long as it's fun to look at afterwards.

That's the problem with Hawaiʻi... they want volcanologists, but not igneous petrologists... which is why I won't be going to grad school at University of Hawaiʻi at Honolulu...

Sigh. *goes to search craiglist*