This is probably an ambitious listing.
Chinese
Read the two texts from Streamlined 3&4: Talks on Chinese Culture (205 pages) and A New Text for a Modern China (246 pages)
I'll probably go through the 1001 characters in the appendix of Talks and add the ones I don't already know to anki first.
My bottleneck in Chinese is characters and vocabulary, which I don't see any easy way of clearing without actual "studying".
Japanese
Kanji is one of my bottlenecks in Japanese as well. According to my anki deck, I "know" 1347 out of the 1945 [old] joyo kanji (a couple hundred more were added to the joyo list recently). I write "know" because even if I may know the meaning for them (from Chinese), I might not necessarily know the Japanese readings for them. For me, to know means to know at least one Japanese reading and meaning, and thus, be able to use it in some way in Japanese. Lack of kanji knowledge directly relates to not being able to read more of the books I want to read, so I need to get through the rest of the joyo kanji somehow. I don't have an answer to "how" yet.
First, "studying"...
Grammar: Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
Kanji: Basic Kanji Book, Vol 2
Aren't these the same as last year? Yes, here's to doing more "studying" this year ^^;;
For listening and speaking, I'll continue to listen to the podcasts I've been enjoying and to attend the Japanese conversation group meetings.
Writing: twelve posts on lang-8, with at least one post every other month. I liked last year's focus, but here's something that should be attainable despite this year's load.
Reading: ten books. I've already finished two, albeit children's books (~grades 2-3), and I'm currently in the middle of HP 1 (long-ish) and キノの旅 (~7th-8th grade level?). Ten is a nice, challenging, but [hopefully] not unrealistic number.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
jp reading, 2011 in review
Reading took off in a way that I never thought it would (could?) when I wrote my focuses post at the beginning of last year. I suppose it started with the two short books mentioned in the previous post, but it continued due to Hikaru no Go and the Tadoku contest.
In February, I went with J to a new ramen place I heard about through the Japanese conversation group. The ramen shop was near the SCC library and since we'd never visited the SCC library before, we dropped by there after yummy ramen. In their Japanese section, they had all the volumes of Hikaru no Go (along with other manga). Encountering those volumes reminded me of the few volumes of HnG bought the previous year collecting dust on my bookshelf at home. This led me to trying to read volume 1 in March. By the time April's Tadoku came around, I was on volume 4.
Tadoku (多読) loosely translates to 'reading lots' and the Tadoku contest ran January, April, July, and October last year, months during which one tries to read as much as possible, reporting progress throughout the month via twitter to the Tadoku bot. The bot maintains rankings and totals and has a twitter feed of ranking and total updates as participates update their statuses. It's not an actual contest per se, but more of a gentle competition, essentially whatever each person makes of it. Seeing numbers does amazing things to human psychology. Knowing that you only need to read a few more pages to catch up to the person whose rank is one above yours becomes extra motivation to "just read a few more pages", for example. The April contest was what started me down the path of reading more books.
In 2011, I read (with very loose translations of the titles in parentheses):
Total = several picture books (not listed), 30 volumes of manga, and 15.5 children's books. Much more reading than I set out to do at the beginning of the year.
I love to read in English, so developing an interest in reading was never the problem. I was just always at the "am I ready?" stage. Each author has their own writing style and different subsets of vocabulary that they use, so the first few pages of a book are always *hard*. But now that I've delved into a few for-native-speaker books, I know I don't have to stop at the first or second page when I encounter difficulties. If I can get beyond that initial hump and get into the story, I'll get used to the author's quirks. Now that the gates have opened, there is a ton of stuff I want to read! The problem still is the difficulty of the material though, not in a "am I ready?" way but in a "I'm just not understanding enough of this" way even past the first several pages.
The かぎばあさん and ふたごの魔法つかい series are aimed towards 小学校低学年～中学年, which I interpret as grades 1-3. 霧のむこうのふしぎな町 said 小学中級から, which I interpret as grades 3-4 and up. I don't think there are any books for which I'll know all the words and it's hard to place my exact reading level, but it's probably around 2nd to 3rd grade right now, meaning if I read books around that level, there should only be a couple of words per page that I don't know and I'll understand the little details. I can probably read up to 7th or 8th with more dictionary lookups. Even without lookups, I can at least understand a good portion (though maybe not all the itty-bitty details) of the plot and setting. Unfortunately, some of the books on my to-read list are adult-level books or literary works T_T
In February, I went with J to a new ramen place I heard about through the Japanese conversation group. The ramen shop was near the SCC library and since we'd never visited the SCC library before, we dropped by there after yummy ramen. In their Japanese section, they had all the volumes of Hikaru no Go (along with other manga). Encountering those volumes reminded me of the few volumes of HnG bought the previous year collecting dust on my bookshelf at home. This led me to trying to read volume 1 in March. By the time April's Tadoku came around, I was on volume 4.
Tadoku (多読) loosely translates to 'reading lots' and the Tadoku contest ran January, April, July, and October last year, months during which one tries to read as much as possible, reporting progress throughout the month via twitter to the Tadoku bot. The bot maintains rankings and totals and has a twitter feed of ranking and total updates as participates update their statuses. It's not an actual contest per se, but more of a gentle competition, essentially whatever each person makes of it. Seeing numbers does amazing things to human psychology. Knowing that you only need to read a few more pages to catch up to the person whose rank is one above yours becomes extra motivation to "just read a few more pages", for example. The April contest was what started me down the path of reading more books.
In 2011, I read (with very loose translations of the titles in parentheses):
- ヒカルの碁 (Hikaru no Go) volumes 1-23 (all)
- よつばと! (Yotsuba &) volumes 1-6
- テガミバチ (Letter Bee) volume 1
- 日本の昔ばなし aka Once Upon a Time in Japan
- あのときの王子くん and 銀河鉄道の夜 (mentioned previously)
- かぎばあさん (Grandma with a Key) series, books 1-9
- くまの子ウーフ (Little Boy Bear Oofoo)
- 霧のむこうのふしぎな町 (The Strange Town on the Other Side of the Mist)
- 少年探偵ブラウン (1) (translations of Encyclopedia Brown books; I only read nine of the fifteen stories in the book)
- ふたごの魔法つかい風と火の国 (Twin Witches series, Wind and Fire Countries)
Total = several picture books (not listed), 30 volumes of manga, and 15.5 children's books. Much more reading than I set out to do at the beginning of the year.
I love to read in English, so developing an interest in reading was never the problem. I was just always at the "am I ready?" stage. Each author has their own writing style and different subsets of vocabulary that they use, so the first few pages of a book are always *hard*. But now that I've delved into a few for-native-speaker books, I know I don't have to stop at the first or second page when I encounter difficulties. If I can get beyond that initial hump and get into the story, I'll get used to the author's quirks. Now that the gates have opened, there is a ton of stuff I want to read! The problem still is the difficulty of the material though, not in a "am I ready?" way but in a "I'm just not understanding enough of this" way even past the first several pages.
The かぎばあさん and ふたごの魔法つかい series are aimed towards 小学校低学年～中学年, which I interpret as grades 1-3. 霧のむこうのふしぎな町 said 小学中級から, which I interpret as grades 3-4 and up. I don't think there are any books for which I'll know all the words and it's hard to place my exact reading level, but it's probably around 2nd to 3rd grade right now, meaning if I read books around that level, there should only be a couple of words per page that I don't know and I'll understand the little details. I can probably read up to 7th or 8th with more dictionary lookups. Even without lookups, I can at least understand a good portion (though maybe not all the itty-bitty details) of the plot and setting. Unfortunately, some of the books on my to-read list are adult-level books or literary works T_T
Monday, January 30, 2012
languages, 2011 in review
Last year's main focuses...
There isn't much to say about Chinese aside from the fact that I finished DeFrancis (= [supposed] fluency with 1200 characters). I also read an abridged translation (with pinyin included) of Tom Sawyer, which was fun ^^
Though I didn't get through *the* grammar book, DIJG, I did read a few other shorter grammar-related books:
- Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow by Kakuko Shoji (good)
- Making Sense of Japanese Grammar by Zeljko Cipris & Shoko Hamano (decent)
- Making Sense of Japanese by Jay Rubin (very good)
I did a lot less "studying" in Japanese than I was planning to do. Instead, I did things *in* Japanese. Looking at each of listening, writing, speaking, reading...
Listening
Listen-reads above, but also a lot of listening to podcasts during tasks like driving, washing dishes, etc. and while running. I discovered some really good podcasts this year.
Writing
There isn't really much to say about writing. Though I failed to write any posts for November and December, I did write a total of 42 posts during the year, which is an average of 3.5 posts per month.
Speaking
I started going to a Japanese conversation group in February and continued to attend through October (up to our trip). The group meets twice a month for two hours each session with conversations entirely in Japanese. Shortly after finding the conversation group, I also started talking with a lang-8 friend over Skype. I had written about the local group in one of my lang-8 posts and this particular friend messaged me asking if I'd also be interested in conversing over Skype. We'd talk every now and then, spending 30 minutes in English and 30 minutes in Japanese. Has speaking gotten easier? From what I remember of my very first encounters, yes. But, it's still very difficult to say the things I want to say in Japanese in real-time.
Reading deserves its own entry ^^
- ch: finish DeFrancis Intermediate part 2 reader
DONE! In fact, not only did I finish the Intermediate reader, but I also finished the Advanced one! As expected, the font in the advanced reader was indeed smaller than that of the two Intermediate books; the size was comparable to that of a regular adult novel (in Chinese, of course). By August, I was completely through with all 3000+ pages of DeFrancis. - jp: start working on speaking
Yes! More details below... - jp writing: one post a month on lang-8
I missed November and December, our major travel months. 42 posts in total during the year. - jp: listen-read Miyazawa Kenji's 銀河鉄道の夜
DONE! - jp: listen-read: あのときの王子くん (The Little Prince)
DONE! - jp grammar: Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
Started but didn't get very far.
- jp kanji: Basic Kanji Book, Vol 2
About half-way through?
There isn't much to say about Chinese aside from the fact that I finished DeFrancis (= [supposed] fluency with 1200 characters). I also read an abridged translation (with pinyin included) of Tom Sawyer, which was fun ^^
Though I didn't get through *the* grammar book, DIJG, I did read a few other shorter grammar-related books:
- Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow by Kakuko Shoji (good)
- Making Sense of Japanese Grammar by Zeljko Cipris & Shoko Hamano (decent)
- Making Sense of Japanese by Jay Rubin (very good)
I did a lot less "studying" in Japanese than I was planning to do. Instead, I did things *in* Japanese. Looking at each of listening, writing, speaking, reading...
Listening
Listen-reads above, but also a lot of listening to podcasts during tasks like driving, washing dishes, etc. and while running. I discovered some really good podcasts this year.
- KviaJ. Continued from last year, but I think they've discontinued the podcast now T_T
- LanguageCast Japanese talks. Infrequent but usually a short (10 or less minutes) conversation between Japanese learners.
- "Tokyo Power Your Morning". Interviews with people from various industries, featuring one guest a week with the interview split into four episodes, broadcast on Monday through Thursday. This was probably my favorite podcast of the year. Most guests are pretty interesting and the host is fantastic.
- 男女の心理学★知りたい！相手の気持ち. Loosely translates as "I want to know what the other person thinks!". I would never listen to something like this in English, but as a language learning tool, it seems ok. The podcast is split into two parts: a few minutes talking about the issue of the day and differences in thought between men and women regarding the issue and a longer portion reading and talking about letters from readers (on topics such as 'what is your favorite book?', 'what animal would you be?', etc.). Though it's only a couple of minutes long, the first part also comes with a close-to-word-for-word transcript ^^
- 文化系トークラジオ. A "serious" round-table discussion with each topic totaling 4-5 hours of listening. I've only listened to two topics, 僕らが旅に出る理由 (The Reasons We Travel) and ふぞろいのグローバル化 (Globalization). If not for the fact that I have to listen very closely to avoid getting lost, I would probably have listened to more of this. It's interesting but sometimes I feel like I'm in over my head ^^;;
- Hotcast. Only discovered towards the end of the year. A conversation between two hosts about the topic and letters from readers. Most (all?) of the few episodes I listened to talked about food! The hosts are also a lot of fun.
- Radio dramas. I have a couple stashed for future listening and started listening to one.
Writing
There isn't really much to say about writing. Though I failed to write any posts for November and December, I did write a total of 42 posts during the year, which is an average of 3.5 posts per month.
Speaking
I started going to a Japanese conversation group in February and continued to attend through October (up to our trip). The group meets twice a month for two hours each session with conversations entirely in Japanese. Shortly after finding the conversation group, I also started talking with a lang-8 friend over Skype. I had written about the local group in one of my lang-8 posts and this particular friend messaged me asking if I'd also be interested in conversing over Skype. We'd talk every now and then, spending 30 minutes in English and 30 minutes in Japanese. Has speaking gotten easier? From what I remember of my very first encounters, yes. But, it's still very difficult to say the things I want to say in Japanese in real-time.
Reading deserves its own entry ^^
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
MH 2012 & Boston
After less than a week back in Cali, we flew red-eye to Boston on Tuesday evening last week. It was our first time back together in Boston/Cambridge in more than six years. (The last time was '05 for a "reunion week" before MH&J's wedding in Rhode Island and K had been back once during the interim for a college recruiting event ('07?).)
The reason for being in the area again after so many years was Mystery Hunt, a crazy weekend of little sleep and lots of puzzles.
K found Codex back in late '08 and started hunting with them remotely during the '09 Mystery Hunt. Then, I joined for the 2010 one (also remotely). Last year, 2011, Codex won, meaning the team had to put on this year's hunt. We arrived Wednesday to help with pre-hunt prep and then were on campus during the hunt itself working various roles. K dealt with submissions related to one of his puzzles and worked the phones while I was mostly involved with productions-related activities (it was a musicals theme based loosely on "The Producers" and teams had to write and perform several mini productions during the hunt itself). I had a TON of fun! ^o^
Of course, putting on the hunt was a HUGE undertaking, with work underway starting last January, shortly after the end of the previous hunt. K spent just about every day of the year working on the hunt, resulting in 20-some puzzles that made it into the hunt itself (about a fifth of the total # of puzzles in the hunt). Something like five out of seven days every week researching, writing, revising, testing, etc. puzzles and ideas would not be an understatement (or seven out of seven oftentimes). If it wasn't work or a social event, then it was puzzles. This included the weeks we were traveling; after a full day out walking and sightseeing, we would return back to our hostel/guesthouse/hotel and he would log in to the hunt writing server.
In comparison, my contributions to the hunt during the year were minuscule. Sure, I helped test-solve some puzzles, contribute to a couple, etc., but really, just a tiny, tiny mark. But, I realized during the hunt that puzzles were a big part of my life during that year as well. I heard about ideas, triumphs, failures, bits and pieces, drafts, progress, just about anything, really. It's an odd feeling. I was mostly on the periphery but after it all ended, I felt the happy/sad feeling you get when you're at the end of something big. Despite my tiny, tiny mark, it was after all, a big part of *our* lives for the year.
I had briefly struggled with the decision of maybe not traveling to campus for the hunt but I went with my original thought of going (how often will you get to see a hunt behind the scenes?), and I'm really happy I did. I wasn't useless (^^), had fun (^o^), and met a lot of nice people (\^o^/) (though not all of the 60-or-so people at HQ). I had probably worked on a few puzzles with some of them in the past but I'm pretty bad at remembering names and usernames. Now, I know their real names and faces, but then, I'll see them online next year with their usernames and wonder whether it's someone I met this year ^^;; Having met and gotten to know a bunch in person makes me really look forward to next year's hunt and want to get better at puzzle solving in the meantime (and hopefully K won't turn around and say we're joining another team >_<).
Cambridge/Boston. It was a bit odd being back. Things remained mostly the same, with a few changes here and there. We ate at Mary Chung's (which now offers brown rice) our first day and Penang our last day (in between was just whatever food was most convenient). Back in the day, we bought tokens for the T from a teller; now, it's tickets dispensed from automatic machines. We still remember when the price of tokens went from 85 cents a token up to $1. K bought a couple hundred tokens before the price hike went into effect. We used all of them, too, before we graduated, cheerily sharing our lower-priced tokens with friends whenever we went out. Now, each [non-discounted] ride is $2.
We know few people still in Boston, but J&K were kind enough to let us stay at their place for the week and weekend. I hadn't seen them since their wedding in '06 and was really looking forward to seeing them again. But coincidentally, J was actually out of town the days we were there, in SoCal from the 5th and returning the morning of the 17th, exactly the morning we would be leaving! He told me earlier that he would be back the night of the 16th, meaning we would at least have that final night to catch up, so I was really bummed when he later told me he had, in not-atypical J-fashion, misread his flight info. He wasn't getting back to Boston the night of the 16th but flying out of LA that night!
Though we would have crossed paths with Kr (she flew out to meet J the day after we arrived), our non-normal schedules meant that we didn't see her after all. In fact, I didn't even see their roommate C until our last night there! K and I had odd schedules the whole time ^^;; Seeing H would have been nice, too, but time was not on our side.
It was the mildest Boston winter we'd ever experienced, but as we coming out of the T that last night, it had started to snow! The first time since '03 for K to see falling snow! (We still managed to fly out the next morning, too ^^)
We traveled Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia for seven weeks, flew directly to NJ at the end of the trip, attended N&R's wedding on NYE, spent time with friends and family, came back to Cali, did a bit of cleanup and unpacked, re-packed and went to Boston for Mystery Hunt, and now, we are, finally, back in Cali for longer than a few days (well, probably months ^^;;). So, the end to our 2011 travels ^^
The reason for being in the area again after so many years was Mystery Hunt, a crazy weekend of little sleep and lots of puzzles.
K found Codex back in late '08 and started hunting with them remotely during the '09 Mystery Hunt. Then, I joined for the 2010 one (also remotely). Last year, 2011, Codex won, meaning the team had to put on this year's hunt. We arrived Wednesday to help with pre-hunt prep and then were on campus during the hunt itself working various roles. K dealt with submissions related to one of his puzzles and worked the phones while I was mostly involved with productions-related activities (it was a musicals theme based loosely on "The Producers" and teams had to write and perform several mini productions during the hunt itself). I had a TON of fun! ^o^
Of course, putting on the hunt was a HUGE undertaking, with work underway starting last January, shortly after the end of the previous hunt. K spent just about every day of the year working on the hunt, resulting in 20-some puzzles that made it into the hunt itself (about a fifth of the total # of puzzles in the hunt). Something like five out of seven days every week researching, writing, revising, testing, etc. puzzles and ideas would not be an understatement (or seven out of seven oftentimes). If it wasn't work or a social event, then it was puzzles. This included the weeks we were traveling; after a full day out walking and sightseeing, we would return back to our hostel/guesthouse/hotel and he would log in to the hunt writing server.
In comparison, my contributions to the hunt during the year were minuscule. Sure, I helped test-solve some puzzles, contribute to a couple, etc., but really, just a tiny, tiny mark. But, I realized during the hunt that puzzles were a big part of my life during that year as well. I heard about ideas, triumphs, failures, bits and pieces, drafts, progress, just about anything, really. It's an odd feeling. I was mostly on the periphery but after it all ended, I felt the happy/sad feeling you get when you're at the end of something big. Despite my tiny, tiny mark, it was after all, a big part of *our* lives for the year.
I had briefly struggled with the decision of maybe not traveling to campus for the hunt but I went with my original thought of going (how often will you get to see a hunt behind the scenes?), and I'm really happy I did. I wasn't useless (^^), had fun (^o^), and met a lot of nice people (\^o^/) (though not all of the 60-or-so people at HQ). I had probably worked on a few puzzles with some of them in the past but I'm pretty bad at remembering names and usernames. Now, I know their real names and faces, but then, I'll see them online next year with their usernames and wonder whether it's someone I met this year ^^;; Having met and gotten to know a bunch in person makes me really look forward to next year's hunt and want to get better at puzzle solving in the meantime (and hopefully K won't turn around and say we're joining another team >_<).
Cambridge/Boston. It was a bit odd being back. Things remained mostly the same, with a few changes here and there. We ate at Mary Chung's (which now offers brown rice) our first day and Penang our last day (in between was just whatever food was most convenient). Back in the day, we bought tokens for the T from a teller; now, it's tickets dispensed from automatic machines. We still remember when the price of tokens went from 85 cents a token up to $1. K bought a couple hundred tokens before the price hike went into effect. We used all of them, too, before we graduated, cheerily sharing our lower-priced tokens with friends whenever we went out. Now, each [non-discounted] ride is $2.
We know few people still in Boston, but J&K were kind enough to let us stay at their place for the week and weekend. I hadn't seen them since their wedding in '06 and was really looking forward to seeing them again. But coincidentally, J was actually out of town the days we were there, in SoCal from the 5th and returning the morning of the 17th, exactly the morning we would be leaving! He told me earlier that he would be back the night of the 16th, meaning we would at least have that final night to catch up, so I was really bummed when he later told me he had, in not-atypical J-fashion, misread his flight info. He wasn't getting back to Boston the night of the 16th but flying out of LA that night!
Though we would have crossed paths with Kr (she flew out to meet J the day after we arrived), our non-normal schedules meant that we didn't see her after all. In fact, I didn't even see their roommate C until our last night there! K and I had odd schedules the whole time ^^;; Seeing H would have been nice, too, but time was not on our side.
It was the mildest Boston winter we'd ever experienced, but as we coming out of the T that last night, it had started to snow! The first time since '03 for K to see falling snow! (We still managed to fly out the next morning, too ^^)
We traveled Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia for seven weeks, flew directly to NJ at the end of the trip, attended N&R's wedding on NYE, spent time with friends and family, came back to Cali, did a bit of cleanup and unpacked, re-packed and went to Boston for Mystery Hunt, and now, we are, finally, back in Cali for longer than a few days (well, probably months ^^;;). So, the end to our 2011 travels ^^
Monday, January 9, 2012
coming home
I've never felt so good coming back home to Cali after traveling! It might have had something to do with already being back in the U.S. for the past week+ but still not back to *our* home.
Brief recap:
The reason we didn't come back to Cali first was because it maximized the amount of time we could spend traveling while still making it to N&R's wedding, and it was much less expensive overall (round-trip SFO-EWR flights during the holiday season were the highest I'd ever seen them).
I'm really happy I got to spend a weekend with N&R over the summer. Since they stayed in a hotel the night after their wedding and then left in the morning for their honeymoon, I only got to see them during the final decorating, getting ready, etc before the wedding. 'Tis always how weddings are though.
During all this, K & I were sick. Actually, we're still sick, which I would say is the longest I've ever been continuously sick. It started, roughly, Dec 19th-ish, which means, yes, it's has been 3 weeks! I think we caught a new cold either just before or during our travel day from the East Coast back to Cali though. I distinctly remember feeling better and better as NJ winded down but then feeling much worse our first evening back here T_T
Brief recap:
- T Dec 27 4am Singapore time: Flag down a taxi to go to the airport
- T Dec 27 10pm Eastern: After more than 24 hours of travel, arrive at parents' house in NJ (yes, we flew directly to JFK from Singapore without stopping off in Cali)
- W Dec 28: R arrives home but due to having gotten no shut-eye the previous night, sleeps through the afternoon (like us)
- R Dec 29: D finally arrives home, too! ^^
- F Dec 30: K and I drive to PA for N&R's wedding rehearsal
- Sa Dec 31: N&R's wedding!! ^o^
- Su Jan 1: A lazy morning & afternoon of chatting with N's family, packing, and then heading out to drive back to Jersey a little before sunset (~4:30pm???)
- M Jan 2: A little bit of weird mom-related drama, but we won't go into that. Despite drama, manage to get ourselves to NYC. D-R-CL and I browse Book-off (really cool!) & Uniqlo. Dinner with grandma-grandpa and aunt-uncle (XW's parents, which was a happy surprise!).
- R Jan 5: 6:30am Eastern, leave Jersey house. 9 hours later, 6:30pm Pacific, arrive Cali home. ^o^
The reason we didn't come back to Cali first was because it maximized the amount of time we could spend traveling while still making it to N&R's wedding, and it was much less expensive overall (round-trip SFO-EWR flights during the holiday season were the highest I'd ever seen them).
I'm really happy I got to spend a weekend with N&R over the summer. Since they stayed in a hotel the night after their wedding and then left in the morning for their honeymoon, I only got to see them during the final decorating, getting ready, etc before the wedding. 'Tis always how weddings are though.
During all this, K & I were sick. Actually, we're still sick, which I would say is the longest I've ever been continuously sick. It started, roughly, Dec 19th-ish, which means, yes, it's has been 3 weeks! I think we caught a new cold either just before or during our travel day from the East Coast back to Cali though. I distinctly remember feeling better and better as NJ winded down but then feeling much worse our first evening back here T_T
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