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Monday, January 4, 2010

2009 recap...my Top 3s

3 Proudest Moments:
1. The look on these kids faces, knowing I am affecting them for the rest of their lives
2. Interviewing Nelson George for J'Adore Magazine
3. Truly understanding/overstanding my personal growth

3 Best Artistic Goals:
1. Memoir
2. Nomadness
3. Finding the niche I can fill

3 Greatest Additions to my life this year:
1. The Japanese GAP crew (Miwa, Mami, Suguro, formerly Kotoyo)
2. The Company crew (Megan, George, Mariana, Aisling)
3. Mieko, her family, and her psychic

3 Biggest Accomplishments:
1. Getting on that plane to Japan
2. Getting accepted to Goldsmiths for my masters
3. Booking my trip to India

3 Biggest Heartbreaks:
1. MJ RIP
2. Saying 'I love you' and not hearing it back
3. Barack sending more troops to Afghanistan

Top 3 books:
1. The Places That Scare You
2. Delaying the Real World
3. 20 Something/20 Everything

Top 3 People:
1. Dad
2. Grandma
3. Jason

3 Most Random Moments:
1. Seeing a group of Japanese Santa Clauses on motor bikes, post a winter storm in Japan
2. The guy openly jerking off on the Tokyo metro
3. Kotoyo and Loni busting down a guardrail in the elementary school in order to park in the parking lot for free (ghetto Japanese ish)

3 Mottos to help me get through the year:
1. "Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity." Will Smith
2. "The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in the winter; the fleshy, in the summer.I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissue and the blood." -John Burroughs
3. When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
-John F. Kennedy

3 Words I over-used (same as last year)
1. Insane
2. Crazy
3. Dope

3 Words I over-used (Japanese edition)
1. Nani? (What?)
2. Gomene (Sorry)
3. Shogonai (it is what it is!)

Here is to 2010!

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