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About Me

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chu_hi is my personal journal. This is the big one. It kinda has too many pictures, so don't try to look at all of them or you'll waste your whole life.
chu_hi_wines is my wine journal, in which I never claim to know what I'm talking about.
chu_hi_reads is my new book journal. There isn't a lot there, but it will grow!
"Nakama" is my stripcreator comic. The concept of nakama has something to do with friends and the people who are close to you. I always interpreted it as "people at work you wouldn't have anything to do with if you didn't work together." Poke me with sharp sticks to continue this saga.
Katoributa.com is my old-fashioned, non-interactive homepage. Not much there, except some silly words from my weird brain, and a heavily spammed guestbook.
I have a FaceBook. Anybody know what I'm supposed to do with it?
I have a Shelfari bookshelf , if you'd like to see what I've been reading.

My Interests

I like board games, foreign alphabets, hot baths, feline beings, human beings. I can listen to the same CD like, 72 times, and not get tired of it. I swim like an octopus. I'm terrible at sports but I just started learning to snowboard, and I go snorkeling every chance I get. I have picnics with my husband a lot. I like camping on the beach, hiking in the woods, and driving in the desert. I love to sing my head off. I've studied Japanese for years and years (even lived there for three of them) but I'm nowhere near fluent. This is probably because I'm not very smart. I take a lot of pictures. I read lots of fiction. I'm interested in religion but don't practice one. My number one hobby is traveling; it's also my job. My job is my hobby - neat, huh? Other interests include eating, drinking, and breathing.

I'd like to meet:

Frank Zappa, Henry Miller, Itami Juzo, Gustave Eiffel, and Elvis Presley.

Music:

Kristin Hersh, They Might Be Giants, Frank Zappa, Ulfuls, Love Psychedelico, Ween, Postal Service, Faust, Leonard Cohen, Pixies, Belly, Barenaked Ladies, Phish, Elephant Kashimashi, Erasure, Flaming Lips, Roger Waters, Beatles, and lots of other stuff. And I love hearing something new for the first time.

Movies:

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, 12 Monkeys, I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Tampopo, Mean Girls. I like lots of movies, but those are the ones I seem to be able to watch over and over and over...

Television:

We download all our TV because of where we live. "Little Britain," "Friends," "The O.C.," "LOST," "House M.D.," "Arrested Development," and more.

Books:

Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen; Plexus by Henry Miller; Kafka on the Shore by Murakami Haruki; All Familes are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland; Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick

Heroes:

Queen Rania. My parents. Positive people.

My Blog

Durrances do Frankfurt (the one in Germany)

We just went to Frankfurt, Germany. I go all the time, but Don had never been there. So I was there for 24 hours, but Don was there for 48 hours. He wants you to know that he was yawning in this first...
Posted by susan [contains wheat] on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:01:00 PST

Arm Meningitis Got Me Down

This is the clock radio in our new Brooklyn hotel. It has an iPod dock! It has an iPod Play/Pause button and it charges it! And RCA, ethernet, and myriad other connections built into the desk. That's ...
Posted by susan [contains wheat] on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:23:00 PST

Winter Break Recap, In Color

Bit of a Bukowski moment in that last photo. I fell off a chair in Frankfurt. (It wasn't staged at all, no! Of course not!)...
Posted by susan [contains wheat] on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:06:00 PST

Here's another excerpt - "sleep paralysis"

More nanowrimo...Nezumi woke up to the sound of a key in the lock. She tried to shout "hello," but found she couldn't. "Hello, hello!" her brain shouted, but she couldn't act or speak or move at all. ...
Posted by susan [contains wheat] on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:51:00 PST

All Frozen

I think I just figured out where the inspiration for Logan's Run came from. Someone must have been eating a spring roll that was crispy on the outside, but all frozen inside. Try it: take a bite of fr...
Posted by susan [contains wheat] on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:55:00 PST

Random: Baby Boy, Curry Cat, Pee Pictures

My little brother had a baby boy! I unexpectedly NEARLY cried when I heard the news. Welcome to the world, Cash Warren Strickland!Last night, my man and my friend and I ordered about eleven kinds of ...
Posted by susan [contains wheat] on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 06:38:00 PST

Fried Okra for Okra-Haters

Tanzania was okay. The Kilimanjarou Kempinski was nice, with its ocean view. A few days later I went to Manchester, where I just watched TV and ate pizza the whole time. (I was supposed to go out to g...
Posted by susan [contains wheat] on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 05:08:00 PST

Too Much Blah-Blah-Blah *EDIT: New Haircut!

This is going to be a boring entry. I advise against reading it. I decided to cut my hair, and now I'm totally exhilarated by the thought of being free from my silly long hair. I haven't done it yet! ...
Posted by susan [contains wheat] on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:12:00 PST

The lie doesn't rhyme with the word overseas

Here are a couple of things which don't translate in certain cosmopolitan cities:Buttfuck, EgyptI used this expression around Egyptians a few times and was faced with utter confusion. "But Cairo is a ...
Posted by susan [contains wheat] on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:02:00 PST

Who is responsible?

One of you Superfriends spilled your drink on my shoes last night at the Hyatt Regency! I do remember that I made Don hear the same BNL song over and over on the way home - the whole way home - becaus...
Posted by susan [contains wheat] on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 09:49:00 PST