So, the plane flights went alright, minus the slight weirdness at LAX in which I arrived so early they didn't have a gate listed by the time I got there and what's called "Terminal B" on my emailed itinerary doesn't exactly exist. It's the Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT). Flight overseas was on Singapore, which is kinda awesome. Except that it's like I have a sign that says "Ingore Me," somewhere around, because I kept getting skipped over for service. It might have had something to do with the fact that I was sitting next to two Indian women who were getting served food ahead of time and whatnot (special meals), so they forgot about me over by the window. Except the lady running by with the customs forms who had no excuse, wtf. Essentially a "HIYEAHANYONENEEDFORMS?NO?GOOD."
Anyway, I got to Narita Airport and Okabayashi-sensei was waiting for me once I got through immigration and customs and picked up my bag. Full of booze, heh. The awesomeness of not having to take that home is... very awesome. I think my suitcase lost 40 pounds getting rid of the chocolate and the bottles of bourbon and wine. Okay probably not that much. Even so. Packing for going home will include a lot of condensing. I'm only taking one carry on going back, swear to god.
The weather in Japan is surprisingly cool. I still get rather hot from walking place to place, but just standing outside is usually pretty breezy and nice. Not like walking into the wall of heat it was like when I was here in summer during high school. Indoors isn't very air conditioned, but it isn't England either. They just don't have the AC cranked up to make everywhere nearly 32° F like they like to do in America. So it's kinda nice, actually. I don't require a coat indoors and a tank top outside kinda thing.
Do probably need to take an umbrella, though. It was pouring rain the first evening when I arrived.
Also, I got a 携帯電話 (cell phone). From a company called "SoftBank." What? Why is it a bank... and it's soft? I'm just not going to question this. Japanese cell phones, for the record, are like the complete opposite of the US phones. They're huge. Pretty flat, but huge. I like it. Easier to hold. Mine's just a cheapo model, more or less. Not that it was cheap. 7100¥ for the phone... But it is a pay-as-you-go type plan, so I just got 3000¥ on a card instead of buying a plan. Which is nice. I have until late in January for it to keep the phone number, too, so I figure mid-January, I can renew the minutes and then when I get back here, I won't have to buy another phone. Win.
But yes. Nihon University has wireless internet I can make use of, so I'll probably be around much more than originally thought. Though not as much as I am in America by any means, and also not likely on at decent hours for most of the US folk. Regardless, if you don't see me on IM, email's always an option.
And for the record, I suck at Japanese. I've noticed I forget the following things a lot: tense, because I do everything right now as opposed to having done anything =D; keigo, not that I ever knew it very well; polite vs. informal, because everyone else uses informal to me and I just use informal back indiscriminately... except when I initiate conversation, in which case it is sometimes polite and sometimes informal, based on which conjugation I remember at the time; vocabulary!, because I have none.
What was your favorite TV season finale this year?
Submitted by Kristine.
Supernatural! (haha how long since I used this damned thing...)
SPN is just about the only show I've been watching this year though.I've even been losing track of House, especially post Tritter-plot. What the hell were they thinking with that? Ugh. Anyway.
re: SPN finale, without any spoilers, there was a lot of "Oh God *gulp*", "HOLY SH!T", "Oh no, no no way..." and angst and joy and panic and wooooow. Those damned boys. Closing up plot lines that started at the beginning of episode one sort of helped with the feeling connected to it. And damn those boys. Damn you TV!Dean. The angst makes me hurt for you, but it's so good.
I need more fscking SPN. When's the next season due out again? Rewatching season 1 with my newly made convert. Let the fandom floooooow. Only problem is he keeps asking me what's going to happen. Gotta keep that poker face strong, girl.
WE ARE BLENDY.
That is all.
Okay, we hate to ask, but... over the roll or under the roll?
Uhm. 'Over the roll', ie the 'incorrect' one. I actually make sure I replace the roll before anybody else, because some people in the house occasionally put it the other way. The other way is a pain. It's harder to see, to reach, and harder to tear off without it doing something silly like having a tail too long and tickling your leg or otherwise irritating you. It really annoys me when the remaining tail is too long. Doing it my way means you can have it so there's no 'tail' at all, which is prettier. Morons.
And yes, this is somewhat one of my 'Aspie things'. I get very upset when somebody has 'done it wrong'.
Better pictures.
Audio: Let's hear your favorite cover song.
Submitted by Suzy.
Oooo, how cruel. I am torn, between two. First up would be Wicked Game, by HIM, if it were not in .wma format and getting eaten by Vox. Incidentally, Ville Valo sounded like he was stoned off his chain smoking face when we saw them live.
So you'll have to settle for the other option. Word Up, by Korn. I love these audio Vox questions, I actually jump up happily to answer them. I love music spam.
Audio: Share one of your favorite songs from 2006.
Vasten Mun Kasvojani! Come on, how could I pick anything else. I've had many favourites, but Vasten Mun Kasvojani is my most played and most loved. Grats Apulanta, this song truly doesn't suck! In Finnish, anyway.
What is one of your addictions?
Submitted by Paperheart.
Well there's Warcraft, there's chocolate, there's poking people. But if you mean a *literal* addiction, I'm addicted to caffeine. Large amounts of coca cola daily. You don't really notice until one day you stop completely. After a week without, you've got the shakes, nothing solves your thirst, you're on edge constantly. Did that once, don't want to do it again, kthnx. If I ever give up caffeine it's going to have to be gradual, not unlike one would do with smoking.
Vox won't accept my Span music. It tries to upload them as videos, presumably because they're in .wma format. Oh Vox, why must you be so fickle? You know I love you.
All these Christmas and New Year and year past topics. Boo I say! Yay for a non-seasonal topic. I avoid Christmas and New Year's resolutions. After all, I'm only going to break them. I know I will. I'm bloody hopeless.
These are the least squinty pictures I could get of my baby with the new camera. I will get a good one of him, though. I swear!
And this was one of the really bad ones where he was yelling at me for taking it. *grin* But I like what I've done with it.
~Lily
