Archive for November, 2004



My letter of acceptance from the University of Illinois’ Graduate School of Library and Information Science finally arrived today. Classes start January 18, which doesn’t leave me much time to relocate to Champaign from St. Louis. Everything changes, starting now.

I’m often asked what I liked about living in China and what I miss now that I’m back in the US. I don’t think I’ve done a very good job articulating it to date, but in talking about whether he still feels like a foreigner after 52 years in Japan, Donald Richie really nails it:
“Yes. […]