it's too hot here!

hello people! yes, i am still alive and kicking but sweating like a hog under the sun! i have now been home for a week ... well technically, i've been in america for a week but didnt get home until monday, so a day short. anywho, the flight home was long and uneventful and the layovers sucked but at least everything turned out okay. didnt lose any luggage, no flight problems, and always had an open seat next to me, woo hoo! surprisingly enough, i havent really had any jet lag. the first couple of nights, i had trouble sleeping through the night but i think that was just because i was adjusting back to being in my own bed. also experienced some reverse culture shock and wanted to go right back to japan ... but alas, i have adjusted and am now probably forgetting all the japanese i gained while in japan ... so sad! had a couple of days to recover from my travels until phat, andy, and lisa came up to bishop to take me away to san francisco = fun!!!!! they came up on wednesday, left for frisco on thursday, came back to bishop on saturday, and they left me today only so i can have 2 weeks of boredom! evil ... anywho, san francisco was fantabulous! it was nice and cool and the first day we got there we walked around the entire city! i am not joking ... we walked for 7 hours straight i think and saw almost everything ... got very familiar with the city ... did some looking around in china town, made our way down to jackson square where we had nan and curry (yummy!), then headed over to little italy, off to lombard street and coit tower, then to pacific heights (walked right past nicole chu's house, but she wasnt home), then ended the night with desert in a cafe in little italy. went back to hotel monarch and slept with squeeky fan that sounded like people were getting it on above us ... woke up early and head back out into the city, went fisherman's wharf, ghiradelli square, farmer's market, rode a cable car back to downtown, then drove to golden gate bridge, and stopped at random places to take pictures as if we really went there (but we didnt), passed through castro (many good looking and unavailable men!), had some korean food for lunch, then off to union square to do some shopping, back to the hotel, then had some vietnamese food for dinner, and off to the beach to meet up with chu and her program friends. saturday = pacific heights again, cafe for brunch and saw chu's awesome pad because her host family is super rich! and drove back to bishop through brown country with many cows, then through sonora pass = curvy, steep, and a little scary. welcomed home by drunk parents and friends, played some balderdash (my family are freaks! hehe) and now everyone has gone home and i am left to figure what im doing with the rest of my time here. freaking out about capstone. need to scrapbook japan. clean my car. change oil. read. pack i guess. send letters. start running. then back to school on august 11th! who's with me? okay, bye :)