4 weeks

It's mid-February and that means I have only four weeks to stay here... I have booked the airticket and told the housing office the vacate day of my apartment. I hope to write up a methodological paper on using a content analysis of media discourse to analyze social meaning of consumption, and also finish a first draft of the book on the healing boom. Knowing that not so much time have been left, the list of things-I-wanna-do-before-leaving-Princeton have been longer and longer. That's why I'm attending the cooking class at the adult school to learn how to make bread and soup. I also see movies. Milk is the best movie I've ever seen in the US and Pink Panther 2 was just a garbage. I have collected DVDs such as the Office and 30 Rocks. I'll be able to enjoy them using a region free DVD player I got here.

I am also preparing the lecture that I'll start from April (In Japan, the academic and the fiscal year starts from April, the season of cherry blossom). Since I'll have three or more talks at academic meetings during the next semester, which is from April to July and is called "summer semester" in my home university, I want to finish every materials for the lectures in March. I haven't taught for one year and half, so I'm very excited to do it again.

Anyway, I should think I'm too busy to do any unnecessary things. But, you know, the more you are busy, the more you want to do unnecessary things. That's why I reorganized my website. OK, let me go back to work.