3 posts tagged “notes-to-self”

i really want takeuchi yoshikazu's book, "I LOVE ARASHI." XDDDDDDDD
i'm sure i could only just barey read it.
but i would try.
and probably learn a lot.
SEE?  arashi is educational.♥
i'm not even kidding, i've learned so much more japanese through them, way more than from anything else.
(even if it *does* mean i prefer masculine nihongo lololol)
i'm so proud someone wrote a book like that♥
better yet a fifty-something old man. XD i just... oh... it makes me laugh. >w<

in other news, it's a -20 windchill and my car won't start. :\  looks like i can't go to paige's tonight because how will i get there?  her place doesn't lie on the closest bus line. orz
but!
i will still go to the gym because it's not that cold (lol well if you're wearing a coat and hat and gloves and scarf over several layers and walk fast, i mean) and because i feel like i ate a lot today.  already.  at 4pm.  i should go soon, though. and anyway that's easier to get to with a bus than paige's house.  i'm annoyed about that though.  how will i get to xiao's tomorrow?  what if i wanted to go meet up with mary on saturday?  LSKjlksjl? slkslkj?  aasdflkdk?

i have spent the past two days rifling through Only Arashi Files for what i want, and i can't find it.  :\  i might have to make a request.
still haven't watched dramas or sent letter to penpal...
orz
maybe i will do that tonight when i'm all busy NOT hanging out with paige.
orz
I AM SO UNPRODUCTIVE.

i got textbooks yesterday... TT_____TT  too much literature.  i'm looking at it going, "I HAVE TO READ THIS MUCH STUFF IN ONLY 15 WEEKS?!  NOT POSSIBLE. TOO MANY WORDS.  I'M A HUMAN, NOT A READING-MACHINE." [/jim gaffigan voice] hahahah i have gotten SO SO mentally lazy.
next week sometime, i guess, i need to go get a few more things from the student bookstore. xD like more SWEATPANTS. xD really warm fuzzy ones that say my university's name on them♥ and then i can wear them to class all the time when it's this cold.♥

i need to go to the restaurant i used to work at and pick up the check that i forgot to pick up there.  but i can't get there if my car won't start. OTZ
DAMMIT.  i hate winter here. orz

whooo. :D yesterday i went shopping with three of my friends & two of my new friends - Japanese exchange students!  Mizuho & Tomomi.  from Nagasaki & Nagoya, respectively.  neither of them like Arashi or even idols sadly (TT__TT) but Tomomi is really good at playing guitar & singing and Mizuho understands my dislike of Ueto Aya!!  (sorry guys. OTZ i just... really don't like her.)

after a week of what feels like doing nothing and being lazy... probably because that's what the week WAS xD.... today i am going to the Rec Center.  in an hour.  it's 2, i said i would go at 3. X)  and then- THEN!  then i will sit around and watch dramas again. i'm so far behind.... ;-;
oh and i made a lot of progress keeping in touch with people but there's still a few people i need to send emails to and message and stuff. OTZ
but i've gotten so many dramas in the past few days!  i MUST watch.
and i have episodes of Shukudai and VS and etc. that MUST be watched!!!  (i've sort of... not wanted to watch Himitsu lately... when i do watch it it's about, like, new halfs - which is cool, really, but i'm starting to get sad by how much prettier than me they are xD - or that one episode about huge people, that was just hard to watch - or people who got perfect bodies - OTZ I'M WORKING ON IT OKAY GUYS?! DON'T REMIND ME TOO STRONGLY OF MY FAULTS. orz.)
and lots of other performances and stuff.

and i have to take out the trash and i should vaccuum again.  the kitchen needs to be sorted out a bit and i need to apply for a renewal of my drivers' license.  i should study and my laundry is a MESS!  and one of my tires needs a little bit more air, and i STILL have to take that frying pan back to my aunt, i have NO idea why my mom gave it to me in the first place.  and i still have a few emails to write and the longer i put them off the harder they get. ;-; dammit!  BAD!  *sigh*  life feels so complicated sometimes. ;-;

oh noes, and after logging in on facebook, it seems i've been invited to go clubbing with mary on the 17th.  at MYTH?! that's WAY out in the suburbs, man!!  do i go or not go...  she's really nice... she's invited a TON of people, it might be a good chance to meet people... i like making new friends, a lot... but i'm not so good with clubbing, and what the HELL do i wear?! ldkj;alkj D:  and where are we meeting first i wonder... we'll see... it makes me nervous but i kind of want to go...
(this isn't a bad thing but if i go, looking at the guestlist, i bet you anything i will be one of the only white people there. :x i'll be so awkward!!  i should go if i can though. :x )

i want to try being the girl who works at a conbini. :\

unfortunately the US's conbinis are nowhere NEAR as cool as Japan's conbinis. TT______TT so i wouldn't really want to work in a US-style conbini.  If you can call convenience stores here that, which you can't.

however, there is a more Japan-style conbini on campus in the student union and it's hiring at the moment. :3  Conbini job getto!  i hope.  they pay well enough and it's really pretty close so that would be nice.  I wouldn't have to drive.  On the other hand none of the bus lines from my house go straight to the student union so i would have to walk across campus a bit.  That would suck, seeing as the temperature of late is hovering around 5°F / -15°C (highs have been 15°F / -10°C, lows -5°F / -20°C. The weather around here never makes up its mind, changes too much. -_-"  I'm gonna move. -_-" and it WILL still get colder, wait and see.  January is full of weather where the winds get down to about -30° F / -34° C.  DAMMIT WHY DO I LIVE HERE.)

BUT ANYWAY it's a pretty decent job in a good location and the students who work there are always studying when it's not busy.  For the ever-pressed-for-time Daigakusei, being able to study on the job is YAY.

So anyway i hope that works out.

Back to finishing my crap essay in the next few hours so i can turn it in tonight.  I no longer care about my grade in that class though.  And apart from this assignment the class is done.  My TA sucked and didn't actually teach anything and there was only so much you could learn on your own. -_-"  even if i get a 50% on this paper - which i probably will because i'm not even trying to satisfy the requirements - hell no i am not scanning the score and analysing it in technical language, because YOU, mr. TA, never actually taught us how and only ripped apart our attemtps to do so on the last paper without explaining.  So why bother.

Then later tonight, Thai food with Paige. Tomorrow dinne with Michelle and the Karaoke with Kristin and her friends because it's her birthday~!!  Thursday hopefully go see Twilight with Xiao?  Thursday night there is an "ugly sweater party" at Tanya's but I don't know her roommates all that well and I... don't have any really ugly sweaters. ;_; only 'mildly ugly' sweaters. XD So I might not go.  I might not see Meer this week either because she's not usually up for doing much and I think she leaves soon...  tomorrow actually.  We will have to hang in January.  Same thing with a bunch of people I didn't get to see this past weekend and i think Megan and i need to spend some quality hang-out time. hangout in  JANUARY.  Uwaaaa i love the new year.  The whole thing starts over with mochi and a clean slate~ :3 Then Friday or Saturday, depending on the weather, comes the five hour drive home accompanied by much loud singing of Arashi in the car. :D
RAWR.

I promise, once winter break starts for real i am going to go around actively commenting on stuff!  And catching up on shows.  And watching dramas.  OM.

I love Christmas so, for so many reasons, but the idea of the New Year gets me all excited.  It's such a refreshing thought. :3  I love January apart from it being freezing as balls because it's a month where I mostly get to relax and pull myself together and prepare for spring semester. :D