8 Nov 2007

cimorene: cartoony drawing of a woman's head in profile giving dubious side-eye (angst)
I dreamed about the Japanese exchange student who lived with me seven years ago, when I was in high school, and her family, whom I stayed with in Japan for a summer.

It was a nice dream and I was reluctant to wake up, even though it didn't make any sense. Even in the dream it was poignant because I recognised and missed her and her parents, even though I also dreamed that I was meeting them for the first time.

It's hard to be reminded in dreams about relationships you regret losing - people you're genuinely attached to whom you've lost over the years.

I had a friend in high school whose "aunt" was the Japanese woman who stayed as an exchange student with her mother when they were both sixteen, and they'd kept up a life-long friendship with yearly visits (helps if you're both rich, right?). She gave Mayumi and me a pep talk at a party, once, when she was still there, and I met the "aunt" at last at my friend's wedding. She immediately knew who I was and when I told her I'd lost contact with Mayumi, she sparkled at me and told me it's not too late and I should try to contact her.

I don't know - I've lost all means to electronic communication with her over the years, but her parents might still live in the same house. I've been toying with the idea of writing to her for about a month now.
cimorene: cartoony drawing of a woman's head in profile giving dubious side-eye (singin in the rain in a flat)
I'm an unrepentant salt addict, but my parents accidentally got me one box of "reduced sodium" red beans & rice mix (they mail this to me intermittently because you can't buy anything like it here). I was eating the leftovers of the package of it just now and, ironically, when I was salting it the lid to the salt shaker fell off, dumping half the salt on it. There was a glittering white pile. I tried shaking, then scraping it off, but even the salt that had already dissolved and/or become invisible was enough to make it inedible. The only time I want to feel like I've just licked a pile of pure salt up is when I'm having tequila shots, thanks. So I had to throw it away. Luckily it wasn't quite a whole serving.

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