Okay, I know my problems pale in comparison to, it seems, everyone else's lately, but this IS my place to whine ( Read more... )

Let's try again at coming back to LJ ( Read more... )

I feel SO terrible for trying to get back in touch with people that I haven't talked to in a year or a few years or even over 5 years... and pretend I'm not trying to get something out of them until I can determine whether or not they would be willing and able to write me a good recommendation. I haven't gotten to the asking with any of them yet. I ( Read more... )

So, I took the JLPT... It was HARD. Harder than I was expecting. I actually ran out of time on the reading comprehension/grammar portion, and here's why ( Read more... )

After all I've been through, I know that bouts of depression don't last forever... but they still suck.

In other news, who's going to meet us for brunch on Saturday?

Okay, NoVA/DC folks! We need to start finalizing plans for what we're going to do while we're in town ( Read more... )

So, I went bra shopping yesterday because it was desperately needed. Admittedly, this was a store that sells things at a very, very steep discount, so I can only assume that they are mostly seconds. I got them for $3 each. The thing I thought was funny was that all 4 were different sizes (and odd sizes at that): 40D (not so odd), 38DD (a little ( Read more... )

My host family from Japan e-mailed me... and for some reason my e-mail won't even let me try to send something to their new e-mail! It doesn't like the format because it doesn't include a .com ...What do I do!?!? I even got a delivery failure when I replied to the e-mail it came from! o_O;

So, I think going from a 53% FAIL to a 77% pass on the grammar section of the JLPT is pretty good, and counts as progress. Hopefully I can improve that between now and December.

But OMG I'm so nervous... a 77% is a pass, but it's not a GOOD pass... T_T

I finally got through all 1023 of my kanji flashcards!! YAY!!! =D Now I just have to review them about 100 more times before the exam.... T_T