Yay, Saipan!

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — In the first visit by a Japanese monarch to a World War II battlesite abroad, Emperor Akihito is heading to this tiny U.S. island to pray for more than 30,000 Japanese lives lost here in the name of his father, plus the thousands of Americans and islanders killed.

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June 26, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

girl on film

Tomorrow I get my photo taken for a UW admission publication sent out to prospective undergrads. I’m representing the English major, so there will be my thumbnail-sized photo boxed in with a short bio/praise for the University. I was interviewed coincidentally enough by the sister of my creative writing professor (after talking with her, I can tell their family is insanely brilliant). I don’t know how it’s going to come out. I gushed about the library-system and how my victorian professor was such an postive influence and inspiration. Because I went on so adamantly about him, he will be in the photo, too. How do I coordinate outfits with a Harvard man, I wonder. (As I type this, I can just hear Mike ask, “Why is your nose so brown, Mona?”)

This photo, which will humblingly small and insignficant, has caused much vanity to surface (and truthfully, the reason I submitted myself to the eyebrow wax). This is all quite silly, but makes me think of Anne of Green Gables and her first formal prayer: “As for the things I want, they’re so numerous that it would take a great deal of time to name them all, so I will only mention the two most important. Please let me stay at Green Gables; and please let me be good-looking when I grow up.”

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