All right then. Fine.
Tired of drifting aimlessly through life, I've decided to set some vague, utterly impossible goal for the future. Just to give me something to regret not doing anything about as I drift aimlessly.
No, this is me being optimistic.
So, I pulled up the Chicago Sister Cities International Program web site and decided to visit each of our Sister Cities. These are:
Warsaw, Poland Osaka, Japan Milan, Italy Casablanca, Morocco Shenyang, China Shanghai, China Gothenburg, Sweden Accra, Ghana Prague, Czech Republic Kyiv, Ukraine Toronto, Canada Mexico City, Mexico Vilnius, Lithuania Birmingham, England Hamburg, Germany Petach Tikva, Israel Paris, France Athens, Greece Durban, South Africa Galway, Ireland Moscow, Russia
(Their site seems to be broke, so the list is from Chicago Sister Cities - MapPoint Gallery - MP2K Magazine, which has a very nice image of the planet with the cities marked)
Looking over the list, I realized there's a distinct difference between a vague, utterly impossible goal and being just plain silly.
So I narrowed it down. To one.
It's a beautiful day, according to the Weather Underground: Osaka, Japan Forecast. And there are some interesting-looking installations at the National Museum of Art, Osaka.
So, I'll have a look 'round the Consular Section of the American Consulate General Osaka-Kobe, Japan, figure out that whole passport/visa thing, try to find somewhere to stay at Osaka-Japan.com, you know, working out the details of the vague, utterly impossible goal as a substitute for actually, you know, trying to attain it or anything.
Suppose I could start by finally seeing Lost In Translation. . .
This entry is dedicated to the Nubian Goddess: Neogrammarian
Because I'm going to drag her along on the trip. She just don't know it yet.
Ooooh! Oh oh oh! I want pictures!
Can I ad "nubian goddess" to my c.v.? I'm SURE it would help me get a job. Doesn't everyone want one?
Osaka? zat where the Ghibli museum is? Cuz if's not, what's there to see?
j/k; I'll ad Osaka to Vietnam on our Places to Visit list.
We could just settle for Toronto, you know. Nice city. Great food. On this continent.
reminds me of the time i worked at a ecofeminist/women's spirituality bookstore and was given an "honorary lesbian" bumper sticker by a real live nubian goddess.
good times, good times...
Garrity, not a problem. If my old i-Zone digital/instant hybrid is still working, or there's always Neo's antique. . .
Neo, the good news is, admission to the Ghibli museum is only ¥1000. The bad news is, airfare over there is, um, close to 1000, and not Yen.
But since you shot down the Arcola Broom Corn Festival last night, guess we can do Toronto instead.
r@d@r, I have no such bumper sticker.
And am quite content with that state of affairs, actually.
Since I am in Randomness Mode:
The Consort (since I need something to call him, I think that'll do) has offered to make ma bumper sticker for my new-to-me car. (He works in a print shop.)
The question is:
What should it say?
"My other car is a <something appropriate>"
Broomstick and TARDIS have been done to death. We should think outside the box.
I could go way out on the geek spectrum.
"My other car is a Type Xa."
About twenty people would know what that meant.
(An experimental Star Trek combat shuttlecraft.)