Here are the latest pictures of me as of August 26, 2000. The earlier ones are further down in the page.

While I was in Ontario visiting my sister we went up to visit my mother's grave. This photo shows me in the cemetery.

This one shows me in front of a waterfalls in a nearby town.

As soon as I got back from having my surgery in Portland, I had to go to my doctor to get a letter certifying that it had been done and then get a female passport to apply for the visa for my trip to Japan. I wanted to have everything ready when I got back so around June 6 I had this passport picture taken.

On June 3 about 35-40 people from my church went on a hike to Grassi Lake near Canmore. It was a short but strenuous hike, like 45 minutes of climbing steep and uneven stairs. The scenery was beautiful, though, and when we got to the top we had a picnic and sang songs. Then our minister gave a short sermon (the sermon on the mount?!). Afterwards a few of us hiked up some scree to a spot where there are some native pictographs. This shot was taken on the way down, with Grassi Lake in the foreground.

After a cool, wet spring on May 27, 2000 I was finally able to wear one of my summer dresses to church.

On May 12, 2000 I had an Obagi Blue Peel (helps to reduce wrinkles and lines in the face). The results were great, but for 7-10 days my face was green (actually more like turquoise). It started to peel off after about three days, beginning around the mouth. This one was taken when I first got home. I went to a party the next day, even though I looked like a smurf. After a couple of days I began to look like "Night of the Living Dead Smurfs" as my face peeled and had long strips of green skin hanging off it.

I have been doing a lot of Japanese cooking this year (Thai, too). Here is a plate of sushi I prepared for my Japanese housemates--and yes, they thought it was great! The apron says "irrashaimase", which is the greeting Japanese shopkeepers and restauranteurs give their customers as they come in.

On Good Friday, April 21, 2000 our church held a "Bunny Hop" dance to celebrate the Easter long weekend. Here I am dancing the night away.

This one was taken at about 12:01AM on January 1, 2000 at the New Year's dinner/dance party at the Centre for Positive Living(my church). I was with three women I met that evening, and had been dancing up a storm ever since the music started. As soon as the countdown was over, everyone was up on their feet with noisemakers, confetti, streamers, etc.

When I got home around 1:30AM my housemate took this one. My hair was a mess from dancing and my dress was all bunched up (it's a clingy T-shirt-like material), but who cares? As you can see from my expression I had a grand old time. Too bad there were no single guys there, but a gal can't let that stop her from having fun, now can she?!

This one was taken in late October or early November, 1999 by Commedia, the A/V department at the University, for use in Faculty brochures, etc. I was wearing the blue jacket and black slacks, not that you can tell!

This one was taken at the Hallowe'en Dance at the Centre for Positive Living on October 30, 1999. Ever since people at the Centre have been referring to me as "the leopard", except for one zoologically challenged old guy who called me "the tiger".

Here I am with a queen who towers over me! This was taken in Montreal about October 1, 1999 right in front of McGill University, where I was attending the annual conference of the Japan Studies Association of Canada (hence the ultra-conservative look; quite a contrast with the leopard-woman!).

This is me at the opening reception of the conference on September 30, 1999 in the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Montreal. It was taken by a photographer who was circulating among the participants, Mr. Akira Kubota of Windsor. I didn't even know this photo existed until it arrived in the mail!

This one was also taken in Montreal down by the waterfront in the old city. An old friend and her boyfriend showed me around on October 3, 1999. While I was down there I bought a sterling silver ring with a round lapis lazuli stone. The character for lapis lazuli is used when I write my name in Japanese characters (kanji). I wear this sweater and jeans combo a lot.

The last of the new batch is this one of me and my Dad in my living room. Nothing special in terms of clothes or pose, but I wanted to show us together in my new look. I wear the T-shirts around the house when I'm cooking (we had just finished a meal of whole wheat spaghetti with my special zesty meat sauce. (I leave out the meat when I have vegetarian friends over).

This one was taken on August 10, 1999 in my basement. The suit is one of the three I bought at Tall Girl last December (1998). I got the glasses at Lenscrafters. I have contacts, too, but they're too much bother for everyday wear.The picture over my shoulder is a jigsaw puzzle with an image by Ichiro Tsuruta, a contemporary Japanese graphic artist employed by Noebir, a Japanese cosmetics company, to do their posters. I LOVE his work and have several more puzzles with his art on them as wellas a hanging and a couple of Noebir posters which hang in my bedroom. The vase and the cloth on the table are also from Japan. The flowers are just cheap plastic ones from China, though.

This picture was taken during my first MBA class on Wednesday, September 15, 1999. The brown suit is the third of the three I bought at Tall Girl. It's double-breasted with pin stripes. How much more conservative can you get?

This one was taken in my office for possible use in a feature article on me as "Prof of the Month" in the faculty's student newspaper. The article is to focus on my academic interests and make only passing mention of my TS status.

The next two were taken at Illusions on Saturday, September 11, 1999. I like my face in one and my figure in the other, so I decided to post them both.

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