Back in the states.

Back in Bellingham.



I miss Japan :(


And the fuckers in the apartment above mine seem to really like DDR.

If any of you haven't heard Snoop Dogg's latest single, listen to it. It's indescribable, except possibly with the word "Country".

And amazing.

It's dedicated to Johnny Cash.

Went to Phoenix over thanksgiving break. It was pretty cool. Went to Sedona on Saturday. It's this tourist-trap town in the desert an hour or two north of Phoenix. It's famous for its red rocks and "spiritual vortexes." I just wanted to buy souvenirs there and look at the art. The McDonald's in town is the only one in the U.S. without yellow arches. Check it out:




Yeah, so Thanksgiving was cool. Not much to say about it, since none of you know my sister. Had fun with the twins. Saw the new Stephen King movie, The Mist. It was awesome. I highly recommend it.

Time to do some paper writin'. Ciao~

I moved into my dorm in Bellingham yesterday. I'm all unpacked and my room is set up pretty much how I want it. Tomorrow I get to meet my roomate! I'm excited :D:D:D I start classes Wednesday, so until then I'm not sure what I'll do. Maybe I'll play ffxi, maybe I'll read, maybe I'll study (most likely not, though I really should). Maybe I'll sleep! Actually, I probably won't, cos these beds are hard as slabs and the walls are paper thin.

Somehow I got overdrawn yesterday :((( so I had to take the $100 my mom gave me for books and put it in the bank. I still have enough though. They lent me another 700 so I can buy a plane ticket for Thanksgiving sooner rather than later. I'm going to AZ to visit my sister's family.

Well, there's not much to say, really. I've got about three and a half weeks left before I go off to Bellingham. I've gained more weight, so I'm starting to excercise. I want to bike for at least half an hour a day. Today I went to Lakewood and back. That was about an hour and a half.  Peter and I are going to Portland tomorrow. Tonight we're going to go see Balls of Fury. It looks really good. I love Christopher Walken.

Well, I've been unemployed for almost a week now. My last day was friday; the boss begged me to stay. Now I'm just counting down the days until school starts. I can't wait. Other than that, there's not much to report. My days mostly consist of studying, watching TV, and touching myself (just kidding... or am I?) and it's really boring. I want to hang out more with my friends, but I also don't want to spend any money. I've got about $500 to last me until I go to school in a month and I also have to pay my parents back 200 I owe them and at least make minimum payments on my $300 credit card bill. 

I hate being so dependant on money!

It's me again. I'm not sure if most of you read these anymore, but it's cool. Even though I'm mostly silent I'm reading yours. It's just that when I do finally read entries they're ussually days old.

I went to Bellingham on Thursday. It was cool (but muggy). I found out some stuff about it that put me at ease and other stuff that made me worried. I'm too far behind in Japanese to do a Major in it without putting in another 3.5-4 years. I was thinking about a double major in that and English ed, but the language advisor said if I want to teach ESL an english major is the most important thing anyway and a minor would be enough to let me teach Japanese in Highschool if I ever wanted to. There's a TESOL certification I will need to get (which is like a minor program itself) and I'll be getting High school teaching certification, so I will most likely end up as a fifth year senior (in reality  more like sixth since I spent 3 years at pierce).

I don't care, though. I'm still looking forward to it.

The bad stuff I found out is two-fold. First of all, I may have to take all my japanese classes over again. When I talked to the language advisor, she asked how many kanji I know. I told her about 30 (this weekend I reviewed what I know and it turns out to be over 50) and she said "Oh, you may have to start over at 101." That sucks. On top of that, since I never took 103, I'll have to wait until spring to take it. In that case, it will definately take 3 years, because I would take the 200 level classes the second year and the 300 level classes the third year.
On top of all that I found out that my Writing about Literature class I took here at Pierce doesn't count as taking their Writing about Literature class, something required to declare my English major. Unless I can convince a certain person (her name escapes me now) to count it as such, I will have to take that over again and will be delayed one quarter in my required English classes for applying to the Education department.
This is one very big negative they don't tell you about going to Community college. 

There isn't much other news to tell. I'm studying kanji and verbs and a little vocab from now until the end of summer. I'm going to try getting help from one of my japanese friends for improving my speech. And hopefully I'll be seeing Heidi sometime this week.

じゃ～ね!

Well, Summer is once again upon us. Sorry I haven't updated in awhile, but I was busy getting ready to move after school ended and now that I've moved (yes, I'm back with the folks), I have no internet connection. I'm back at Pierce typing this right now. I've been working full time at FedEx since school ended. I'm getting anywhere from 6 to 7.5 hours in a night. It's brutal. I don't ussually get to sleep until 1 or 2 am, and if you know me well, you know I love my sleep. 


So since I've been at my parents house I've mostly just been hanging out watching movies I've seen before, playing old video games, and reading bits of books. I need something to do, but I need to save money. Every Saturday night I'm out with Peter and his girlfriend Lucy drinking and talking. I've got a thing for one of her friends they tried to set me up with once. The night ended abruptly because they were arguing. I didn't get it, cos it was in korean, so I was confused when everyone all of a sudden wanted to go. Afterwards I saw her in school a few times. She always seemed happy to see me. Anyway Lucy said she'd bring her along again sometime, so I guess I just need to wait (and maybe bug her once in awhile about it).

Had graduation on friday. Big whoop, it's just community college. I still have 2+ years left. Anyway, I'm 99% sure I passed my psych class. Maybe if I'm lucky I scored high enough in my two other classes to even it out to me keeping a 3.5 gpa. I don't think so, but I can always hope.

Had a bunch of my friends over on friday for a party. Peter and Guide were there along with another friend Ryutaro (Japanese) and James, Chuck, Robin, and her boyfriend. It was pretty fun despite the fact that Peter's girlfriend and some friends of hers I like didn't come. We went through a pony keg of beer, two 6 packs of Smirnoff, a bottle of vodka, a half bottle of aftershock and a little bit of yagermeister.

Robin got me hooked on the online game Guild Wars, but I don't have much else to do, so it's ok. I'm watching my niece's guinea pigs while they're camping this week. One already got out into my living room and I had to chase it around with a broom until I could corner it. Darn things are fast! I'm so anxious for fall to get here so I can go to Bellingham. There's a lot I'm going to do this summer, but it's all I can think about.

I don't have much to say ussually and little time to say it in, which is why you don't see these all too often. I'm sorry. I really want to overload you all with mindless drivel, but that will have to wait until summer.

Today was gay. Gay, I say! I was planning on coming straight home after classes so I could take care of some homework and then get motivated and clean house. However, when I got home I realized that I didn't have any keys to get in and Robin wasn't home or answering her phone. Soooo I had to drive back (through rush hour traffic) to school, which took a lot longer than when I drive in the morning, to find the key where I left it in my Chem Lab locker. It was just hanging there in plain sight. I'm glad no one took it, since it has my gold confirmation band (ring) on the key ring. So I go back, taking a pit stop at my Dad's house because it was so hot and I wanted to say hi for awhile. Didn't get back home until like 6:00 instead of 3:00 like I'd planned. To top it all off, I was soooo hot all I could do was stand/sit/lay in front of the fan exercising and then take a nice cold bath then take a nap in my skivvies.

I dropped my cd player in the bath, too. Totally ruined the good time I was having screaming along with the Nevermind album. Woke up an hour ago an did some homework. Housework will be put off again *sigh* but maybe I'll at least do a load of whites and run the dishwasher before I go back to bed. I'm getting my psych grade back up. Right now I'm up to a 72% where last week this time I had maybe a 68%. Tomorrow I take the quiz for this chapter.

In exactly a month I'm going camping with Peter, his gf, Ruriko, Guide, Unghee, and maybe James and few others. I'm excited, because I haven't been camping in a couple years. We're going to Oregon. I'm thinking Warrington, because it's right on the coast and there's campgrounds I remember from awhile ago that were right off the beach. Before we come back we're going to head into Portland for some shopping too. I really wish I had a girlfriend to bring along. Camping has always been something I've wanted to do together with someone that's more than a friend, but I've never been able to. Alas.

じゃ～ね!

Just really a notice. I posted a new story on quoththeraven0. I just finished the (very) rough draft of my final project for Creative writing, which is due tomorrow. I'm excited, but I won't get any feedback until monday, so I don't know why I am. Maybe just because I can take a little break from writing. Oh wait, I have my final 2 page paper due on monday. Scratch that. :(

I'm having horrible writers block. I have a paper due tomorrow that I've barely begun. I left my computer charger at mom's house, so I can't use my laptop until I get that back. 

I finished my next story, but I can't post it until I come back to school tomorrow because it's on my laptop, but I have a copy on my flash memory which I accidentally left at home today.

More later. Ciao

Last night sucked big fat donkey balls. They changed up the entire load side. Basically everything is rearranged and it screwed everyone up. I ended up having to stay an extra 2 hours (12pm) and this girl Ashley and I were almost at each other's throats at the end of it because it was so stressful. My back hurt like a bastard too. I stayed home from school today because it hurt so bad and I hadn't gotten much sleep. Hopefully I didn't miss much. I actually still wanted to go, if only because I wanted to see Ruriko and Guide. One day won't kill me.

I finished my next story for english class. Posting it.

I have a three page sketch due for Creative Writing tomorrow and I haven't really done much on it yet. I have two paragraphs and no clear idea of where I'm going with it. Ugh what can I do, what can I do? This is what I get for procrastinating without even thinking about what I'm going to write. Grr. Argg.

Later.

I lolled.

ACK! I'm so happy! I got my grades back for this quarter. Aaaaand, I not only passed Anthro (which I knew I would), but I passed it with a 3.6. WTF!? I didn't do a whole big assignment that was worth 15% of my grade and I kind of slacked on a few other things (including the final in my opinion). B u t . . . ISTILLGOTAN"A"INIT! Woohoo!

So my grades for this quarter were:

Anthropology 104 (Mosaic of Amer. Culture)       3.6
English 224 (American Lit: Comedy & Satire)     3.8
Journalism 125 (Documentary: A Social Force)  4.0

This brings my GPA up to a 3.5! I'm ecstatic. I wasn't expecting to actually improve my GPA this quarter, just maintain it.

So next monday brings the beginning of the next quarter. I can't wait, only I can... I found some of my books on Amazon.com cheap. Two of my three english books for about 1/3 the cost. I found my chem book, too, but on closer inspection it turns out it is the wrong Edition, so I guess I'll have to get it from the bookstore. My psych book is almost $100 used or $132 new at the bookstore and I can't find it online. *cry* Oh well. That's why God created credit cards. I have a $400 limit on mine, so it should be more than enough for all my book needs this quarter.

Tomorrow or Thursday, I'm going to Seattle with Peter. That should be fun. Too bad we can't go there at night and hit the bars. I have to work at five. C'est la vie. Friday I'm going to visit my sister to help my mom watch Kristin (my niece) while Joanna tries to get some sleep and her husband runs some errands. Hopefully it'll be nice weather and I can take Kristin out to the nearby park to play. I want to fly my kite!

Hehe, this video is so funny. Even more so if you've ever seen When Harry Met Sally.   When Peanut Butter Met Jelly.

Well, later everyone~