Kris Jordan

So I’ve made it to Italy. After around 26 hours of travel I made the Rutherfordton to Bologna to Genoa journey. It was an adventure. My suitcase didn’t quite make it to Bologna when I did. After the hour delay at Charlotte International I only had around 15 minutes to make it across the entire […]

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Free wireless internet access in a plane??? Are you kidding me? Lufthansa rocks. Well, except for these seats being jammed. If only my battery weren’t so short lived on this laptop…
I made the journey to Gastonia last night to see the latest Star Wars debut at midnight with Rich. I really enjoyed it. All of […]

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On Saturday I traveled to Charlotte in the early afternoon to visit my sister at the Aveda school. She cut my hair and did an amazing job. Despite saying she doesn’t enjoy cutting hair as much as she does doing makeup, I feel like if she sticks with it for a little longer she’ll straight […]

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I did it. Watashi wa ganbatteimashita kara, nihongo wo tsuzukanakutemoiidesune. I am done with Japanese forever. I passed. I got the PS. What a journey it was, learning about a language with three huge character sets. Coming into Chapel Hill I thought, “I should take an Asian language to get a taste for what they’re […]

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Friday the 13th has never treated me so kindly. The final grade left to be submitted to SIS came in, and I received an A in compilers. That leaves the semester average at 4.0 for the first, and likely only, time. Taking Japanese as Pass/Fail and four Computer Science courses was key. Who knows what […]

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So I’m back home for a week. It’s nice to know some places don’t change, although it is quite weird not having Nick around to bark at odd hours of the morning any more. Dad planted a bradford pear at ‘Nick’s Spot’ in the yard where he would always lay. He was a great dog.
Since […]

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Today I made a $50.00 investment in four pairs of socks for the Europe trip and beyond. Call me crazy, I would too had I never worn Thorlos socks. Simply put, they are the most amazing things I’ve ever had on my feet.
The first two pair are lightweight, lambs wool level 1 socks. The other […]

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