Well... I didn't think that I had so much stuff from before I went to Japan, but I find that the amount of things that I wish I would have cleaned out before Japan is considerably greater than the things that I sent home.

I was SO SO CLOSE to seeing Gedo Senki (Tales from EarthSea) in the theater in Japan.   I'm even MORE frustrated that I didn't ( Read more... )

2 days after last nomikai and buri is finally able to keep food down.

I think I kind of expected this to happen, but I wish I would have actually done something about getting my butt OUT of here faster so that when the emails/phonecalls/show up on doorstep, "YOU'RE LEAVING??  WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!!" I would have had time to do something.
As it is ( Read more... )

Okay, it's 12am, and I should looking on-line at apartments in Minneapolis.  I should be taking those lab safety tests on-line.  I should be writing emails to all these people whom I'm supposed to write emails to before I go to grad school....
But instead I've just gotten back from hanging out with a friend, and enjoying my last few moments of ( Read more... )

Buri has gone on a b-day spending frenzy, and trying to buy up all the novels she's always wanted to read in the short span she has before she leaves.  It's TERRIBLE!!!!  Full Metal Panic has spoiled me forever.  I used to be happy with just the succinct, and visually gratifying comics, but NOOOO, I need the gratuitous detail afforded by the novels ( Read more... )

My mom sent me the earlier English counterpart of Motto Nou wo Kitaeru Otona DS Training (Challenge your Brain More Training for Adults on Nintendo DS).  It's intended to exercise your brain so that you can always keep the optimum age of 20 years old for your brain.   Thankfully it's a LOT easier than the Motto Nou wo Kitaeru yatsu, so that I can ( Read more... )

...when you don't want to be reminded of your job ( Read more... )

Okay, I haven't updated in a long time, but I'm gonna set off with a rant anyway>:.
If ONE more person over the age of 30 makes a comment about the "Assassin Game" I play for an introduction to slang greetings, I'm going to tap their wrist three times and wait for something REALLY BAD to happen to them.
The science teacher today decided that it was ( Read more... )

I'm off collecting all these old animated GIF spoofs and stumble across the implausible weirdness of a musical version...

www.lotr.com

still... the production footage looks pretty darn cool!

Buuuuuu...

Okay.

Mom's coming in at around 5pm, then I'm trucking her off to Kyoto after some airport/luggage shipment/BREESBRAINFALLINGOUTOFHERHEADANDEXPLODINGSQUIRTINGJUICES!!!! action. That should be interesting. I'm hoping the ryokan still has my reservation or this will get really interesting ( Read more... )

I spent most of today glued to the computer screen reading everything and anything about University of Kansas, University of Michigan, and University of Minnesota... well, everything except for the actual programs at all of them. That would require far too much brain juice, and frankly, who likes dehydrated brain? First I started out with a ( Read more... )