Countdown to Asia

Well, it's been a bit of a lull since we shipped off our little Pillow Crisis off to movie studio summer camp. I only have a week until I fly off to Japan and China, so there's not much in the way of actual work I can accomplish. Here's my to-do list for the week:

• Lunch with my cousin the Hollywood starlet (this is not an ironic term of endearment, but rather a factual description of her profession).


• Practice nighttime photography on Larchmont as a means of familiarizing myself with new camera.


• Reacquaint myself with Lobsters vs. Butterflies. Yay! Here comes my new favorite screenplay!


• Read The Lady and the Monk (discussed previously). Also read Hagakure ("In the Shadow of Leaves"), the treatise of Samurai wisdom adored by white otaku, but considered in its nation of origin to be a document akin to Mein Kampf.


• Wait for Pillow Crisis feedback from the studio. (Twenty bucks says I don't hear from them before I step on the plane.)


• Back up my laptop hard drive in anticipation of the trip.


• Yoga.


• Pick up my brother from the airport.