For Eddy

Today is the day before tomorrow. Specifically, tomorrow being the start of a new term. So today, there are lots of anxious new students, scrambling to figure out everything such as visas, where to get a bike, how to get to the dining hall, etc.

Just last term I remember thinking, how am I going to get through this? I can't read at all. My spoken Chinese is pitiful. Even when I find the place to, say, get my dining card, I can't communicate well enough to tell them what I want to do.

Somehow, I muddled through it. And now, it all feels old hat. There's something cleansing about starting anew.

So today, I'm going to go take care of a few minutiae. Get my tennis racquet restrung and regripped. Maybe buy some fruit. Did my laundry... check. It's funny how I always feel so accomplished just by doing some of these little things. If I just go out and buy milk I feel like I've done something important. Maybe because it's so easy to just sit at home and do nothing, and have hours and sometimes days pass you by.