No Longer in Japan

Yep, I have left Japan...for good this time (well, at least for a good while =) ). It's time to change my blog title... neh, maybe later.

I've been living in Glendale for the past three weeks or so, interning at Walt Disney Imagineering, which has been a dream! Really really busy, and a little stressful, but still! A dream! Every day is a lot of fun, even when it's stressful, and everyone there is extremely nice.

Me wandering around the studio lot with some friends (also interns) after the intern screening of Wall-E:



And no Disney internship experience would be complete without research trips to Disneyland! Me sipping a Dole Whip Float before the Tiki Room:


This is my second experience working full time, and it's quite exhausting! But on the weekends I've taken the time to take a surfing lesson (my first attempt, and I suck, but it's still a lot less painful than snowboarding and skateboarding), to start a library account (to research for my STILL unfinished term paper on geisha), and to visit a friend at Caltech, who showed me their AWESOME STEAM TUNNELS. They remind me of Rome's catacombs--an underground network of hallways full of pipes and hot steam and awesome graffiti / murals / sets built by former students there, and it's full of interesting stories of past pranks, a walled-in skeleton, and a 3D crawling maze built of plywood and whatnot. So cool!

The ironic thing is that I have yet to try steam tunneling on my own campus. Maybe that'll change this year (senior year).

Anyone who reads this, let me know what you are up to (summer is when I have more time to keep in touch with old friends!), and if you're in the LA area I'd love to meet up on the weekend! I'm here til August 30th or so.