mid-week ☆s

☆ i stayed out all night on saturday. i can't believe it didn't kill me like i anticipated. the night started with drinking, then moved to darts and then ended with all night karaoke with the only people left: me and 8 japanese guys. ha. it was a gathering of Ms. Ohio's friends, all 12 of whom grew up in ohio. they all went to the same japanese school on saturdays while living in ohio. we spoke all in japanese, but it was so weird to hear one guy say, "hey, he stole my f'ing wallet...!" in english as if he were a native english speaker and half the songs we sang in karaoke were english songs. it was refreshing. i decided it was too bad that i wasn't romantically interested because english ability is quite appealing. oh, Parker was there too. it's the same with him too; we have amazingly similar taste in music and we get along really well and can chat for hours. i found myself wishing i was attracted like that, but i had to admit that i'm just not. oh well.

☆ i called home sunday night for 3 minutes (then my calling card ran out) for mother's day and again yesterday. my mom was surprised and i talked to my dad for 30 minutes yesterday. it was really nice. my little brother graduated college this past weekend and everyone was there. i feel bad i wasn't...

☆ i borrowed Time Traveler's Wife in japanese from the library yesterday. i loved the book and thought it'd be kind of fun to try to read it in japanese, but i don't think the library's 2 week rental time is gonna be enough. ha.

☆ i also discovered the second floor in the library. all the study desks on the first floor were full, so i thought i'd see if there was anything on the second floor. and instead of desks, there were big study tables! just like in college. it wasn't crowded (i don't think as many people wander to the second floor) and i got a seat right away and before i knew it, three hours had already gone by.

☆ i rearranged my bedroom today. i like it. i just wish i didn't have so much STUFF. i'm just way too sentimental and can't bear to throw anything away. anyone wanna come and help me by throwing it away for me?

☆ i finished the level 2 and level 1 mid-length reading practice problems in one of my study books with a percentage of 84.2% and 84%, respectively. while it's a huge confidence booster (70% is passing), it doesn't help with motivating me to study kanji because apparently i can slide by with what i know right now. i might do the long reading practice problems tonight and see how those go, but really i should be studying the last of the level 2 kanji.

☆ i've had a sore throat all day. i'm hoping this isn't the same sore throat that proceeds all my colds.

☆ i went through and played with some of my macro monday photos in gimp. for as much as i am a purest in the sense that i prefer photos just as they are taken (making the taking of the photo, the framing in the viewfinder, all that more important at the time of taking it), i was able to make the colors in some of my macro monday photos look a lot better. so, i'm replacing the originals with the altered ones. call me a sell out, whatever. may 11, may 4, april 27, april 13, february 23, february 2

☆ i'm supposed to be hearing from this guy about meeting to go over the details of my from-home-part-time-job. data entry, essentially, but it's for a company i'd like to work for full time in the future. right now there are no positions available, so i'll take what i can get to get my foot in the door and then if/when a job does come up, hopefully i'll be first in line. plus, the guy is going to introduce me to someone who works in the same office complex as him who mentioned that he's looking for someone who can speak english and japanese to work for the california state tourist bureau as the san francisco rep. we'll see!! i am hoping it goes well!

☆ i'm going to visit school on thursday. i can't wait. i'm going to study in the library in the morning and then hang out in the teachers' room in the afternoon and hopefully be able to go to the batting cages and dinner with 3 of my old coworker friends. i might be semi-crushing on one of them. and by semi-crushing i mean ridiculously daydreaming in all my free time. >< ha.

☆ one of my favorite tv shows (さんま御殿) is on tonight.

☆ i'm on a popsicle kick. garigarikun pineapple is just so good. off to 7eleven! :)