So on Wednesday, I sold my car.
And after adding up what was in my bank account after depositing this money with the money in my paypal account from selling things on eBay, then converting it to yet, I figured out that I am only about $12 short of what JET suggests I should bring to Japan.
So as long as no crazy expenses come up, I'm set money-wise. :)
It IS really strange to be without car keys.
There's more to this--
Because the old house is now gone and the new house has yet to be put in, I do not have house keys.
Technically, I -do- still have my old house key, but it has no purpose now.
Which leaves three of those mini cards on my keychain--
Autozone- I don't have a car anymore
Curves- Membership just expired
Borders- I still have the full sized card in my wallet, which is what I've been using anyway because I have a giftcard as well.
So basically there is NO reason for me to be carrying around a keys, keychains, or anything of the like.
Nonetheless, I still have the keyring with the old housekey, the three mini cards, and my keychains in my purse.
Denial? Or is it that going around without keys is just too foreign of a concept for me.
I know there are some shades of denial in all of this. I'm going through so many changes these days that sometimes I've been feeling like screaming/crying. For the most part, though, I've been able to keep cheerful, distract myself, and keep myself preoccupied with excitement about living in Japan.
June 27, 2008
June 22, 2008
The nomadic life
These past few days have been REALLY hectic.
Today was the last day to move things out. I was out of town Saturday-Sunday, so I missed much of the final cleaning out of the house. Mom and David ended up putting a lot of things that were left over outside with a tarp over it because they found they didn't have time to properly take care of everything. It should be okay because nothing really valuable is in that bunch, anyway.
I went to San Francisco on Saturday for a JET orientation on Sunday. Saturday was a crazy day in itself-
The morning was much like the previous mornings- HOT due to the heatwave we were having. Then, around noontime, all of the sudden clouds came in and we had a storm complete with rain, thunder, and lighting. It was the longest thunder and lightning storm I've seen in this area for a long time. Anyway, so I took off for San Francisco in the midst of that storm and it followed me a good portion of the way.
Then, when I got out of the stormy weather, I was pretty much in the Bay Area so I had to narrowly dodge two car accidents with careless lane changers. It was pretty scary. However, I got to my aunt's house in San Fran successfully without missing a single exit. (yaaaaaay!)
I hung out at my aunt's house for a little while before taking off for the BART station to meet Bethany and Billy at 24th and Market. My aunt suggested that stop as some place we can look around for a good place to eat dinner, but she told me later that she forgot to tell me exactly where the good places are. We wandered around the streets a little and decided to do a "taco tour" due to the number of Mexican places around. Our "taco tour" consisted of just two places in the end. I'll have to admit that I personally lost some enthusiasm for the tour after finding that the first place was going to be a tough act to follow. Sure enough, the second place was nowhere as good. Anyway, we had fun walking around the area. Woo! Go Taco Tour! (haha)
My aunt picked me up from there and she drove me a little ways to where the restaurants she had in mind were, they were actually more trendier places. It was kind of funny how off we were in our "taco tour", but I think it suited us better anyway.
The next day was the JET orientation, which was REALLY informative, interesting, and pretty fun. I suppose it has to be a good orientation if it's supposed keep people around from 10-4. Of course I wore my black suit jacket, white button up shirt, and black skirt because, as it seems to always work with JET, there was a business casual dress code. (I think it's kind of funny how much I've had to wear that black suit jacket and black skirt since the JET interview.)
My aunt took me out to dinner after the orientation and we went to an East Indian restaurant where I had really great chicken curry and really big and fluffy naan bread. It was so great that I think the part of my heart that broke after learning Indian Clay Oven closed mended a little. :)
I was REALLY tired driving on the way back, so I was relieved and happy to arrive back at "home" again safely.
On the topic of "home," the housesitting house has yet to really feel like some place I really belong. We're working on making this place suit us better for the time being, but really it's still kind of odd. I don't know if I mentioned this before, but a few days before we moved in, we opened the hide-a-bed(?) couch where I was supposed to sleep and found that a mouse had made it's home there. We cleaned it, put the mattress outside (replaced it with a futon mattress), so everything is sanitary, but still when I close the doors I still smell that the house was settled there. We keep intending to cleaning more to get the smell away, but we haven't gotten around to that yet. It's hard to feel like I have my own space when I don't even feel like I can keep the doors shut for more than little while. Hopefully, though, it'll be taken care of soon.
My car, it seems, will be sold and out of my hands on Thursday.
The lack of my own closed off space and how my car will be sold soon is the combination for why I'm feeling kind of awkward and uncomfortable here. I don't feel like I should be taking off in my car because it doesn't entirely feel like I should and I don't feel like I have my comfortable space to get away in the house yet. (Plus David's less than cheery disposition in response to the stress as of lately.) I keep feeling antsy and like I really want to go somewhere and get away from the house. *sigh* Hopefully this feeling will improve when I can shut my doors. And if it doesn't, I guess it will make me more eager to leave for Japan and easier for leave despite things (people) I'm leaving behind. (Aaaaah, sad thoughts.)
On the topic of trying not to think about leaving people behind to go to Japan, I have been feeling a lot more sensitive lately because of that. I am, of course, psyched to be moving to Japan, but I know I'm not going to like the good byes. I've been avoiding sad things lately, like I used to watch Japanese drama and read books that are sad, but now I am avoiding them for more cheerful, humorous things.
Anyway, here's a long blog. I'm a lot more awake now and I used an outline, so hopefully this is a lot more structured that the other blogs I've been posting lately. I can't promise there are no typos, though, because for some reason, as I've mentioned before, spell (& typo) checking isn't something I usually end up doing or worrying about on my blog. Sorry if something makes absolutely no sense at all. :D
Today was the last day to move things out. I was out of town Saturday-Sunday, so I missed much of the final cleaning out of the house. Mom and David ended up putting a lot of things that were left over outside with a tarp over it because they found they didn't have time to properly take care of everything. It should be okay because nothing really valuable is in that bunch, anyway.
I went to San Francisco on Saturday for a JET orientation on Sunday. Saturday was a crazy day in itself-
The morning was much like the previous mornings- HOT due to the heatwave we were having. Then, around noontime, all of the sudden clouds came in and we had a storm complete with rain, thunder, and lighting. It was the longest thunder and lightning storm I've seen in this area for a long time. Anyway, so I took off for San Francisco in the midst of that storm and it followed me a good portion of the way.
Then, when I got out of the stormy weather, I was pretty much in the Bay Area so I had to narrowly dodge two car accidents with careless lane changers. It was pretty scary. However, I got to my aunt's house in San Fran successfully without missing a single exit. (yaaaaaay!)
I hung out at my aunt's house for a little while before taking off for the BART station to meet Bethany and Billy at 24th and Market. My aunt suggested that stop as some place we can look around for a good place to eat dinner, but she told me later that she forgot to tell me exactly where the good places are. We wandered around the streets a little and decided to do a "taco tour" due to the number of Mexican places around. Our "taco tour" consisted of just two places in the end. I'll have to admit that I personally lost some enthusiasm for the tour after finding that the first place was going to be a tough act to follow. Sure enough, the second place was nowhere as good. Anyway, we had fun walking around the area. Woo! Go Taco Tour! (haha)
My aunt picked me up from there and she drove me a little ways to where the restaurants she had in mind were, they were actually more trendier places. It was kind of funny how off we were in our "taco tour", but I think it suited us better anyway.
The next day was the JET orientation, which was REALLY informative, interesting, and pretty fun. I suppose it has to be a good orientation if it's supposed keep people around from 10-4. Of course I wore my black suit jacket, white button up shirt, and black skirt because, as it seems to always work with JET, there was a business casual dress code. (I think it's kind of funny how much I've had to wear that black suit jacket and black skirt since the JET interview.)
My aunt took me out to dinner after the orientation and we went to an East Indian restaurant where I had really great chicken curry and really big and fluffy naan bread. It was so great that I think the part of my heart that broke after learning Indian Clay Oven closed mended a little. :)
I was REALLY tired driving on the way back, so I was relieved and happy to arrive back at "home" again safely.
On the topic of "home," the housesitting house has yet to really feel like some place I really belong. We're working on making this place suit us better for the time being, but really it's still kind of odd. I don't know if I mentioned this before, but a few days before we moved in, we opened the hide-a-bed(?) couch where I was supposed to sleep and found that a mouse had made it's home there. We cleaned it, put the mattress outside (replaced it with a futon mattress), so everything is sanitary, but still when I close the doors I still smell that the house was settled there. We keep intending to cleaning more to get the smell away, but we haven't gotten around to that yet. It's hard to feel like I have my own space when I don't even feel like I can keep the doors shut for more than little while. Hopefully, though, it'll be taken care of soon.
My car, it seems, will be sold and out of my hands on Thursday.
The lack of my own closed off space and how my car will be sold soon is the combination for why I'm feeling kind of awkward and uncomfortable here. I don't feel like I should be taking off in my car because it doesn't entirely feel like I should and I don't feel like I have my comfortable space to get away in the house yet. (Plus David's less than cheery disposition in response to the stress as of lately.) I keep feeling antsy and like I really want to go somewhere and get away from the house. *sigh* Hopefully this feeling will improve when I can shut my doors. And if it doesn't, I guess it will make me more eager to leave for Japan and easier for leave despite things (people) I'm leaving behind. (Aaaaah, sad thoughts.)
On the topic of trying not to think about leaving people behind to go to Japan, I have been feeling a lot more sensitive lately because of that. I am, of course, psyched to be moving to Japan, but I know I'm not going to like the good byes. I've been avoiding sad things lately, like I used to watch Japanese drama and read books that are sad, but now I am avoiding them for more cheerful, humorous things.
Anyway, here's a long blog. I'm a lot more awake now and I used an outline, so hopefully this is a lot more structured that the other blogs I've been posting lately. I can't promise there are no typos, though, because for some reason, as I've mentioned before, spell (& typo) checking isn't something I usually end up doing or worrying about on my blog. Sorry if something makes absolutely no sense at all. :D
June 20, 2008
Heatwave
It's been hot lately.
Not exactly ideal for moving.
Yesterday was the big day in which we got a bunch of people together to move the bigger furniture to storage. Much thanks to Bethany and Billy for coming to help out then.
It was a lot of fun to hang out with those two as well. It was kind of funny to be around Billy because I kind of felt like I knew him already, so I kept forgetting to act like we had just met in person that day. Anyway, it was good times.
Tomorrow, I am heading up to San Fran for an all day JET program orientation on Sunday. I'm going to be staying at my aunt's house and hopefully be able to meet Bethany and Billy again for dinner that night.
So basically this means we get a chance to ride the BART. Yaaaay.
How come I always notice just how tired I am when I'm blogging?
Not exactly ideal for moving.
Yesterday was the big day in which we got a bunch of people together to move the bigger furniture to storage. Much thanks to Bethany and Billy for coming to help out then.
It was a lot of fun to hang out with those two as well. It was kind of funny to be around Billy because I kind of felt like I knew him already, so I kept forgetting to act like we had just met in person that day. Anyway, it was good times.
Tomorrow, I am heading up to San Fran for an all day JET program orientation on Sunday. I'm going to be staying at my aunt's house and hopefully be able to meet Bethany and Billy again for dinner that night.
So basically this means we get a chance to ride the BART. Yaaaay.
How come I always notice just how tired I am when I'm blogging?
June 18, 2008
House No. 1
It's the first night in house number 1 of 3 of this summer.
So last night was our final night staying at our house. We officially moved to the house that we are sitting for while the family that owns this house is on vacation. Today was really hectic not only packing all of the essentials to live at this house for about a month, but also preparing for tomorrow. We're renting a truck tomorrow and we're having a number of people over to help us move the bigger furniture to storage.
I don't feel like I'm writing very well at the moment. Let me just explain that I am really REALLY tired at the moment.
This room is kind of stuffy and I'm not sure why, but I have a window open. I didn't want bugs to come in through the hole in the screen, so I blocked it with tissue. (That was my mom's idea, btw.)
Wow, I was going to write more, but I seriously can't function.
G'night.
So last night was our final night staying at our house. We officially moved to the house that we are sitting for while the family that owns this house is on vacation. Today was really hectic not only packing all of the essentials to live at this house for about a month, but also preparing for tomorrow. We're renting a truck tomorrow and we're having a number of people over to help us move the bigger furniture to storage.
I don't feel like I'm writing very well at the moment. Let me just explain that I am really REALLY tired at the moment.
This room is kind of stuffy and I'm not sure why, but I have a window open. I didn't want bugs to come in through the hole in the screen, so I blocked it with tissue. (That was my mom's idea, btw.)
Wow, I was going to write more, but I seriously can't function.
G'night.
June 16, 2008
Buy, sell, and Japan info.
I have quite a bit to update on. So much that I wonder how good of a job I'll be able to do.
First of all, I got a letter from my JET predecessor. She told me all about the job I am going to be starting and the apartment that I am going to be moving into (which are both hers at the moment). Everything sounds REALLY awesome. She also sent pictures, which I won't post here because it's not my apartment to post pictures on the internet of at the moment. But yeah, let me know if you want me to send you the address of the apartment or forward the pictures via email (I've already done that a number of times.)
The temp agency still hasn't called me about any really short terms jobs. I could really use the money for Japan. The JET program recommends us to bring about $3,000 to tide us over until our first payment. I think I should be able to get $2,000 for my car, I currently have around $500 to my name- so if I try to refrain from spending money, I have about $500 more to figure out. I think I might actually be okay $500 short because I already know that my apartment requires no rent (which is something that not every JET gets to find out before they leave the US- unfortunately.)
I've been selling things on eBay and raking in some dough that way. Not a lot, of course. Although I was surprised to find I had a collector's item (baffled, even.)
Meanwhile I finished packing all of my stuff to keep at my dad's house while I'm in Japan, so now I just have the stuff I want to have in Japan with me. My room is pretty empty. Some people came by last week and bought my futon couch. Tomorrow or the day after, I am going to be moving for the first time this summer (of a total of three.)
Mom and David are upgrading to a manufactured home, so we're going to be moving out of this house (we've been putting things in storage) and into a house that we will be sitting for while the family who owns the house is on vacation. Then, after the house is set, we'll move into the new manufactured home (move #2), and about a week after that, I'm off to Japan (move #3)- pretty crazy, right? I've already planned to use the move from here to the housesitting place as a sort of practice run for packing for Japan. We'll see how that works out.
...I just remembered I had images to add to this blog....
Moving back to the topic of hearing from my predecessor, it occurred, I think, the day after all that mess with my graduation application. I was so bummed out by that mess when it was occurring, that I saved the file onto my desktop as "worstnewsever." When it got all cleared up so quickly, I moved the file to my recycling bin. Then, when I got the letter from my predecessor, that I saved it onto my desktop and named it...
On the letter was my address, which I, of course, looked up on google maps. I found a place that MIGHT be the location of the office I will be working at. I was curious because the letter said that it takes 10 minutes to get there from the apartment walking and 5 minutes by bicycle. So I compared it to the distance I walked to Chuo University from my host family's house last summer-
I used the map on the right (although it's been rotated) on a blog last summer to illustrate the distance I walked from my host family's house to the building that has the International Office at Chuo University. (The blue lines are a little hard to see because I made the image a lot smaller). On the left is the best route from what I could tell from the apartment building I will be living in Hioki city to what I think is the office building. I was surprised to see that (because the zoom is the same on both maps), that the Chuo distance is actually quite a bit longer.
Anyway, that's all I can think to write at the moment.
First of all, I got a letter from my JET predecessor. She told me all about the job I am going to be starting and the apartment that I am going to be moving into (which are both hers at the moment). Everything sounds REALLY awesome. She also sent pictures, which I won't post here because it's not my apartment to post pictures on the internet of at the moment. But yeah, let me know if you want me to send you the address of the apartment or forward the pictures via email (I've already done that a number of times.)
The temp agency still hasn't called me about any really short terms jobs. I could really use the money for Japan. The JET program recommends us to bring about $3,000 to tide us over until our first payment. I think I should be able to get $2,000 for my car, I currently have around $500 to my name- so if I try to refrain from spending money, I have about $500 more to figure out. I think I might actually be okay $500 short because I already know that my apartment requires no rent (which is something that not every JET gets to find out before they leave the US- unfortunately.)
I've been selling things on eBay and raking in some dough that way. Not a lot, of course. Although I was surprised to find I had a collector's item (baffled, even.)
Meanwhile I finished packing all of my stuff to keep at my dad's house while I'm in Japan, so now I just have the stuff I want to have in Japan with me. My room is pretty empty. Some people came by last week and bought my futon couch. Tomorrow or the day after, I am going to be moving for the first time this summer (of a total of three.)
Mom and David are upgrading to a manufactured home, so we're going to be moving out of this house (we've been putting things in storage) and into a house that we will be sitting for while the family who owns the house is on vacation. Then, after the house is set, we'll move into the new manufactured home (move #2), and about a week after that, I'm off to Japan (move #3)- pretty crazy, right? I've already planned to use the move from here to the housesitting place as a sort of practice run for packing for Japan. We'll see how that works out.
...I just remembered I had images to add to this blog....
Moving back to the topic of hearing from my predecessor, it occurred, I think, the day after all that mess with my graduation application. I was so bummed out by that mess when it was occurring, that I saved the file onto my desktop as "worstnewsever." When it got all cleared up so quickly, I moved the file to my recycling bin. Then, when I got the letter from my predecessor, that I saved it onto my desktop and named it...
On the letter was my address, which I, of course, looked up on google maps. I found a place that MIGHT be the location of the office I will be working at. I was curious because the letter said that it takes 10 minutes to get there from the apartment walking and 5 minutes by bicycle. So I compared it to the distance I walked to Chuo University from my host family's house last summer-
I used the map on the right (although it's been rotated) on a blog last summer to illustrate the distance I walked from my host family's house to the building that has the International Office at Chuo University. (The blue lines are a little hard to see because I made the image a lot smaller). On the left is the best route from what I could tell from the apartment building I will be living in Hioki city to what I think is the office building. I was surprised to see that (because the zoom is the same on both maps), that the Chuo distance is actually quite a bit longer.
Anyway, that's all I can think to write at the moment.
June 11, 2008
Madness
So yesterday I got an email from CSUMB the admin and records office.
Saying, basically, that I didn't complete the graduation requirments.
The problems were that I didn't take the required course Japanese 302 (which, funny enough, was never offered. I took Japanese 380 in it's place) and that they didn't have any proof that I attended the Chuo Summer Program last summer.
I, of course, was really devastated to hear that news, but I immediately replied to the email and got in touch with my Japanese professors.
I called Ann last night to tell her about the issue and give her a warning that she might have the same problem, it slipped my mind that because she's in Pennsylvania now, she was a few hours ahead so I ended up calling pretty late on her end.
But she got back at me (unintentionally) this morning calling me and waking me up early to tell me that she checked her email and didn't have problem.
After the phonecall, I was anxious about this whole thing (I need to get proof of graduation to the JET office by July 3rd or no moving to Japan in August...), so I got up and checked my email. I wrote a few more, realized I was REALLY tired, and went back to bed.
I woke up again and got back to emailing back and forth. One of my Japanese professors, Sekine-sensei, emailed and confirmed that I took Japanese 380 instead of 302 and the change was made.
I also emailed a digital copy of my proof of attendance. So now all that's left is for the head of Japanese for WLC, Saito-sensei, to email confirming that I really did go to Chuo.
Then after that my proof of graduation should take no time at all.
*PHEW*
Why are things always a hassle at CSUMB? I almost didn't get in because when counting my transfer units, they forgot to count a class I did at that school already when I was still technically a MPC student. I went to campus personally and fixed that mistake. I was prepared to do that again this time (go to campus personally), but luckily, this time I didn't have to.
It looks like it's going to work out okay.
Thanks, Krystina, for listening to my hysterics last night. :)
In other news-
(also relating to "madness")
I've been packing up things for moving and I found my old Mad Libs books.
......I don't need to explain what mad libs are, do I? If so, this might be a good time for you to utilize wikipedia and then contemplate your empty childhood.
I meant that in the nicest way possible. (haha)
Anyway, I thought I'd share at least one old mad lib here. The blanks are filled with my handwriting and I can tell Jesse was involved because... well... you'll see:
(just a warning, apparently we had a little trouble with "verbs" vs. "adjectives" back then....)
What not to eat for lunch
Everyone knows that kids who eat junk food turn out hastily. Make sure your lunch dead person's head is filled with nutritious green food. Do not go to the blue food stand across the street from your school. The hamburgers they serve are fried in Julia and are made of Jessesaurus meat. The hot dogs contain chemicals such as hydrogenated Jessethol and sodium Mama. And they are made from ground up fish. If you spend time pushing around these places you will get fat and humongous and people will call you a Julia's face. So take a sandwich made of chicken or bologna and lettuce of spaghetti and all my brain cells. And drink healthy Murphy milk instead of chemical cola drinks. If you eat good food, you might grow up to become president of Turkey.
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Best parts:
A container : dead person's head
Something icky : Julia
An animal: Jessesaurus
A chemical: Jessethol
A silly word: Mama
Silly word: Julia's face
An animal: Murphy
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Yaaay! Fun stuff.
I think maybe when I'm doing JET, I'll bring mad libs to the English classes I'm co-teaching and make a class activity from them. :D
Saying, basically, that I didn't complete the graduation requirments.
The problems were that I didn't take the required course Japanese 302 (which, funny enough, was never offered. I took Japanese 380 in it's place) and that they didn't have any proof that I attended the Chuo Summer Program last summer.
I, of course, was really devastated to hear that news, but I immediately replied to the email and got in touch with my Japanese professors.
I called Ann last night to tell her about the issue and give her a warning that she might have the same problem, it slipped my mind that because she's in Pennsylvania now, she was a few hours ahead so I ended up calling pretty late on her end.
But she got back at me (unintentionally) this morning calling me and waking me up early to tell me that she checked her email and didn't have problem.
After the phonecall, I was anxious about this whole thing (I need to get proof of graduation to the JET office by July 3rd or no moving to Japan in August...), so I got up and checked my email. I wrote a few more, realized I was REALLY tired, and went back to bed.
I woke up again and got back to emailing back and forth. One of my Japanese professors, Sekine-sensei, emailed and confirmed that I took Japanese 380 instead of 302 and the change was made.
I also emailed a digital copy of my proof of attendance. So now all that's left is for the head of Japanese for WLC, Saito-sensei, to email confirming that I really did go to Chuo.
Then after that my proof of graduation should take no time at all.
*PHEW*
Why are things always a hassle at CSUMB? I almost didn't get in because when counting my transfer units, they forgot to count a class I did at that school already when I was still technically a MPC student. I went to campus personally and fixed that mistake. I was prepared to do that again this time (go to campus personally), but luckily, this time I didn't have to.
It looks like it's going to work out okay.
Thanks, Krystina, for listening to my hysterics last night. :)
In other news-
(also relating to "madness")
I've been packing up things for moving and I found my old Mad Libs books.
......I don't need to explain what mad libs are, do I? If so, this might be a good time for you to utilize wikipedia and then contemplate your empty childhood.
I meant that in the nicest way possible. (haha)
Anyway, I thought I'd share at least one old mad lib here. The blanks are filled with my handwriting and I can tell Jesse was involved because... well... you'll see:
(just a warning, apparently we had a little trouble with "verbs" vs. "adjectives" back then....)
What not to eat for lunch
Everyone knows that kids who eat junk food turn out hastily. Make sure your lunch dead person's head is filled with nutritious green food. Do not go to the blue food stand across the street from your school. The hamburgers they serve are fried in Julia and are made of Jessesaurus meat. The hot dogs contain chemicals such as hydrogenated Jessethol and sodium Mama. And they are made from ground up fish. If you spend time pushing around these places you will get fat and humongous and people will call you a Julia's face. So take a sandwich made of chicken or bologna and lettuce of spaghetti and all my brain cells. And drink healthy Murphy milk instead of chemical cola drinks. If you eat good food, you might grow up to become president of Turkey.
-------------
Best parts:
A container : dead person's head
Something icky : Julia
An animal: Jessesaurus
A chemical: Jessethol
A silly word: Mama
Silly word: Julia's face
An animal: Murphy
----------
Yaaay! Fun stuff.
I think maybe when I'm doing JET, I'll bring mad libs to the English classes I'm co-teaching and make a class activity from them. :D
June 08, 2008
Various things
So I'm home alone this weekend. It's late and I'd better get to bed before I start to creep myself out (although I have a little bit for a couple of hours now).
Earlier today, there was a truck making noise parked across from my house and I thought it was weird. Then a little later I heard an exploding sound- probably a gunshot. After that, the truck was gone. I'm not really worried because I've heard gunshots around here before and then no follow up or anything, so I assume it's just stupid people doing stupid things like trying to shoot animals (although that's sad) or cans. This time was just a little different because 1) I'm alone; 2) The gunshot seemed really close because it echoed a LOT- I thought it was thunder for a moment.
Creepy.
But it's been silent since then other than the usual sound of cars on the highway and the usual creaky-ness of this old house that I don't seem to notice quite as much when others are around.
That's one thing that I am thinking about for when I move to Japan- I LOVE living alone during the day, but night is maybe not so good. On the other hand, I can imagine myself being comfortable in an apartment complex or something where there's someone I at least kind of know just a wall away. I kind of hope I can get that. In any case, I feel overall more secure in Japan... because I haven't heard gunshots there.
Oh geeze, I'm imagining some people getting really freaked out about my current situation right now. I'm fine, guys. Prunetucky culture is out there and I'm in here. (haha)
In other news-
My webdrama, the one that takes place in LA, had a special yesterday (Friday). It was really cool. There was an event and 4 of the 6 characters were filming what was going on, so when chaos broke out and everyone scattered, the viewers had to wait until each character got back in touch and posted their footage to understand the bits and pieces of what happened exactly. In short, pretty awesome storytelling.
But, unfortunately, that came with a character death. Before, this this series they kind of isolated the main, likable character from the group before killing her off, but this time, everyone seemed very close and the one who ended up dying was so exuberant and likable up to the last video she was in. It was so sad.
What's also kind of depressing is the fact that apparently NONE of the channels I am subscibed to on YouTube are uploading new videos- for the FIRST time since I started subscibing to a number of channels, the "subscription update" box is not there. It's kind of sad to see, really. Maybe it's an error of YouTube's?
I miss that box. :(
And I miss that character that died. :(
Oh well, I'd better get to bed.
Earlier today, there was a truck making noise parked across from my house and I thought it was weird. Then a little later I heard an exploding sound- probably a gunshot. After that, the truck was gone. I'm not really worried because I've heard gunshots around here before and then no follow up or anything, so I assume it's just stupid people doing stupid things like trying to shoot animals (although that's sad) or cans. This time was just a little different because 1) I'm alone; 2) The gunshot seemed really close because it echoed a LOT- I thought it was thunder for a moment.
Creepy.
But it's been silent since then other than the usual sound of cars on the highway and the usual creaky-ness of this old house that I don't seem to notice quite as much when others are around.
That's one thing that I am thinking about for when I move to Japan- I LOVE living alone during the day, but night is maybe not so good. On the other hand, I can imagine myself being comfortable in an apartment complex or something where there's someone I at least kind of know just a wall away. I kind of hope I can get that. In any case, I feel overall more secure in Japan... because I haven't heard gunshots there.
Oh geeze, I'm imagining some people getting really freaked out about my current situation right now. I'm fine, guys. Prunetucky culture is out there and I'm in here. (haha)
In other news-
My webdrama, the one that takes place in LA, had a special yesterday (Friday). It was really cool. There was an event and 4 of the 6 characters were filming what was going on, so when chaos broke out and everyone scattered, the viewers had to wait until each character got back in touch and posted their footage to understand the bits and pieces of what happened exactly. In short, pretty awesome storytelling.
But, unfortunately, that came with a character death. Before, this this series they kind of isolated the main, likable character from the group before killing her off, but this time, everyone seemed very close and the one who ended up dying was so exuberant and likable up to the last video she was in. It was so sad.
What's also kind of depressing is the fact that apparently NONE of the channels I am subscibed to on YouTube are uploading new videos- for the FIRST time since I started subscibing to a number of channels, the "subscription update" box is not there. It's kind of sad to see, really. Maybe it's an error of YouTube's?
I miss that box. :(
And I miss that character that died. :(
Oh well, I'd better get to bed.
June 06, 2008
:D
2 Guys, 1 Flute
"You know, Tim, I really like to play the flute, but I really don't care to push the keys."
"That's strange, Bob, I love pushing the keys, but I don't like to play the flute."
"You know, if we work together, we can play song on the flute!"
"YEAH!"
And thus the legend of "Two Guys, One Flute" was born.
"You know, Tim, I really like to play the flute, but I really don't care to push the keys."
"That's strange, Bob, I love pushing the keys, but I don't like to play the flute."
"You know, if we work together, we can play song on the flute!"
"YEAH!"
And thus the legend of "Two Guys, One Flute" was born.
June 01, 2008
Today
So as I mentioned in the blog yesterday, I was in a car accident yesterday.
At last night I slept in a hideaway bed in a hotel room and it was SO uncomfortable. I lost a lot of sleep just trying to make it bearable.
So today should have been a lot worse than it was.
But I actually really liked it a lot.
(Actually, it's technically "yesterday", because it's almost 1 am)
I always really like being around my family and I like being around my friends. At first I almost thought it would be selfish to want to hang around both at the same time, but in the end I felt that it could go smoothly.
Today was the graduation party. I felt kind of weird at first because I didn't know quite as many people there as Sam and Dan, but I was really glad that Bethany was around. The food at the party was great and the guests were very friendly. It turned out a few of them had quite a bit of experience with Japanese language and culture and that was kind of interesting.
After the party, Danny eventually made it to town and we went to the Frank (Sam's family)'s house and had dinner. Then we played Apples to Apples and went to the Cheesecake Factory for dessert.
There were many things I really enjoyed about after the actual graduation party. Like I really like it when my friends meet my aunt Jan because I think she's such a unique person.
Anyway, I'm REAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLY tired. I'm rooming with Jan tonight, so I get to have an actual bed. I have every intention under the sun to sleep like a log.
G'night. :D
At last night I slept in a hideaway bed in a hotel room and it was SO uncomfortable. I lost a lot of sleep just trying to make it bearable.
So today should have been a lot worse than it was.
But I actually really liked it a lot.
(Actually, it's technically "yesterday", because it's almost 1 am)
I always really like being around my family and I like being around my friends. At first I almost thought it would be selfish to want to hang around both at the same time, but in the end I felt that it could go smoothly.
Today was the graduation party. I felt kind of weird at first because I didn't know quite as many people there as Sam and Dan, but I was really glad that Bethany was around. The food at the party was great and the guests were very friendly. It turned out a few of them had quite a bit of experience with Japanese language and culture and that was kind of interesting.
After the party, Danny eventually made it to town and we went to the Frank (Sam's family)'s house and had dinner. Then we played Apples to Apples and went to the Cheesecake Factory for dessert.
There were many things I really enjoyed about after the actual graduation party. Like I really like it when my friends meet my aunt Jan because I think she's such a unique person.
Anyway, I'm REAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLY tired. I'm rooming with Jan tonight, so I get to have an actual bed. I have every intention under the sun to sleep like a log.
G'night. :D
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