another good guide. it says i should begin as soon as possible. i’ll start tomorrow.

I think this website is a good guide for me to follow to get the fiancee visa started. I just hope I haven’t worried Eriko too much.

it is quite confusing. there are a variety of different options we could do, but the one which seems the least risky and provides the most comfortable experiences is for Eriko and I to be legally married next August. i’ll have to apply for the fiance visa early next year and she’ll use it to enter the country after our honeymoon, which will follow our symbolic ceremony in Nagoya. if that is what we do, i hope it works out perfectly.

i finally reached my lowest weight on record again – 137 lbs. i did that partially by cutting my food intake in the evenings when i’m not so hungry but i think i should really step up the exercise to maximize any gains. i’m going to spewak with a lawyer about immigration today. i’m going to look into a fiance visa unless it could impact Eriko’s tourist visa.

i should be going to asleep, but instead i managed to register eriko.org. i had just looked at it a few weeks ago and it was taken. lucky me.

waiting for me in Seattle was the September issue of Sys Admin Magazine, with my name on the cover. now to start thinking about my next article… in other news, i left my japanese dictionary (the electronic one) on the plane. i’m just getting over being bummed. the sad thing is that i was napping, woke up and saw the dictionary in the seat back and told myself that i should get it out or i’ll forget it. of course, i went back to sleep and then forgot it. i put in a call to Air Canada’s lost and found, so now all i can do is cross my fingers.