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I am going to America in like, about a week! But first I need to go to the government office in Chiba to get my re-entry visa so they let me back in to Japan in July.

Here is what will be done (probably) in Lincoln Nebraska:

Grandparents will be visitied

a nephew will be met for the first time

my Pentax 67 will be put through a good time of shooting, so will my other cameras.

Thrift stores will be visited every day.

my ring-around-the-collar issue will be solved by buying new shirts.

Also I will be taking care of 112 of 223 jr high school kids and 10 teachers for 12 days of all day school trip coordination and support.

I maybe will get an ibook.

I am really looking forward to re-living any number of evenings from high school to last august by driving on a country road with some god-awful rock music coming out of even worse speakers. With the windows down. Your hand can be like an airplane wing and the feeling (and smell) of driving down into a small wooded valley along the higway is unsurpassed in causing the remembering of memories and getting all natsukashii.

‘I am afraid that there are more people than I can
imagine who can go no further than apppreciating a
picture that is a rectangle with an object in the
middle of it, which they can identify. They don’t care
what is around the object as long as nothing
interferes with the object itself, right in the
center. Even after the lessons of Winogrand and
Friedlander, they don’t get it…. They want the
obvious. … I am at war with the obvious.’

–William Eggleston