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Nick Kirsch

a variety of activities

yesterday, I:

  • met some old co-workers/friends for breakfast
  • cleaned house
  • transferred Sun Tzu's Art of War (audio book) to MD
  • installed a new Mazda battery in the Miata
  • went grocery shopping
  • installed a florescent light above the kitchen sink (after measuring and drilling)
  • practiced Kanji
  • started internationalizing the diary/journal/blog application for Eriko
  • re-watched a movie, Playing God
  • cooked some pork
  • sat very still, with Bailey sleeping peacfully on my lap

new year's resolution

to harness all of my talents to improve my life. i currently misuse some virtues and incorrectly consider others vices. i think with sufficent effort, i can put this puzzle together…

immigration work

i’ve prepared a binder full of immigration information, with 34 pages… and i don’t know if it is good enough. ;) i’ll be attempting to contact a lawyer ttomorrow…

2004-12-24

Although my feelings are real, the causes are invented and blown out of proportion. I have such high expectations for love but I must remember that Rome was not built in a day. On those days where the loving feeling is gone, I have plenty of other things in life which can bring me cheer.

nice to see Eriko

but we have become more distant since our last visit than before. i know that patience is my friend, but it is difficult when you adore affection.

war of the diaries

Seeing Eriko after these four months of almost no communication has so far been what I feared – she is distant and I am distressed. I am torn by my desire for affection and my desire not to rush her into that affection. Last night, I couldn’t sleep and I finally woke her up and asked to kiss her – but it didn’t really make me feel much better. Who wants to ask for a kiss rather than be offerred? So I struggle. Dad told me that we would fall in and out of love. I had become accustomed to failing out of love when we weren’t around each other, but had not anticipated it during a visit. I suppose it was just a matter of time, really. What is sad is that Eriko has been making entries into her diary often, which I have never seen her do, and I feel shut out. I’m jealous of someone she is emailing quite frequently, Akie. Not really sure if it is a girl or a guy, but I’m jealous anyway. Why shouldn’t I be? She has spent more time in conversation with her journal and email then me, I think.