July 25, 2005

• Research groups are good. The lively exchange of ideas will inspire
  and support me, and besides, group meetings often have food. It’s
  worth postponing my individual interest in personal information
  management if I can’t find other people who are working on the same
  area.
• I’m good at networking and relating to people quickly. I’m still a
  little shy, but I’m starting to be good at remembering names and
  faces, and people here don’t mind helping someone get settled in.
• A personal organizer makes me feel more on top of things. If I can
  find a ring-bound paper organizer with the same structure as my
  current planner, I’ll switch to it. I really appreciate having
  weekly and daily goals, and might prepare my own templates if I
  can’t find an organizer that normally does that.
• I can write 800 words easily once I get going. I prefer writing in
  one go instead of filling out an outline because the former feels
  more like writing e-mail to someone, and I can get pretty
  long-winded in e-mail.
• My writing style seems to be matter-of-fact and conversational.
  Dominique thinks I’ve found my voice.

近年では、電子コンピュータがますます重要になってきた。 In recent years electronic computers have become increasingly important.

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For my birthday and send-off party, a bunch of my friends got together
and made a video that I could bring with me to Canada. I haven’t
watched it yet. I thought I shouldn’t do it while I was still settling
in, while I still wasn’t quite sure that this was a good idea.

I’m going to watch it later. I think I’ve gotten the rhythm of things
and I’ve found little sources of joy here.

I can’t wait to see what they’ve come up with. =)

ここのパソコンはシステムを変えることができないので何もできない。 Because the personal computer here cannot change the system, anything cannot be done.

On Technorati: friends, barkada