WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING BACK HERE.
uh. hi, I mean.
What shows are you looking forward to in the new fall TV season?
Hm, what shows am I looking forward to this fall? I think the show I'm looking forward to the most is Supernatural just because the boys are hot and I like supernatural and kinda scary stuff.
I'm starting to consider to move my book write ups to here since I don't really use my vox journal for anything else and I kinda like it better than using wordpress etc. I probably will catch up my write ups when I get back home (I have to do a write up for four books now: Dragon's Blood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Smoke and Mirrors and the book to the side, Stardust).
Also, this has the insert a book from amazon feature, which in my opinion would make it a very useful tool for my book stuff etc.
And now I'm kinda bored of writing this up, so write later.
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.
What words, for the life of you, can you never spell correctly?
Submitted by Byrne.
'Definitely' is the only one I can remember off the top of my head. I even misspelled it when I was typing up this entry. There's probably several others because spelling is not my strong suit, but I can't recall them at the moment.
That is all.
I just noticed that the image on the top of my vox layout has a bottle of ink that is exactly the kind I have in my dorm room that I got for Christmas along with some sepia ink and a pen. That's pretty neat.
Um, yes, blablahblah, actually writing a damn post in my vox blog thing for once.
When do you file your taxes? Do you do it yourself or get outside help?
I file my taxes as soon as I get my W2 because I don't really have that much to worry about tax wise yet since I'm still techincally a dependant of my parents and only have to do taxes because of my summer jobs etc. I get help from my mom actually, so techincally I don't do it myself, but I don't get outside help either.
Book: Show us a book you started reading but never finished.
Okay, techincally I'm supposed to be reading this book at the moment, but I've tried to read it before and I just didn't manage to get through it. Even now on my second attempt at reading it, I'm having difficultly. It's been currently sitting in my backpack all lonely while I decide to work on Sudoku puzzles instead of reading it.
I do plan on finishing it someday, but it's a slow piece of progress and I suspect I only didn't manage to finish it before because the copy I had before was from the library and I had to return it. However, now I have my own copy and can read it at my own pace. I'm finally about at the area that I got stuck at and so let's see if I can at least get a little bit farther in it.
