look, it's been an entire year and this is just 3,500 words! (many of them about hockey.)

[guingel]

(Bolding is for skimming clarity, not emphasis.)

Hellooooo, livejournal! If I waited five days, it will have been a full year since I posted! Which is annoying because I really should have done a US Open write-up like I did once before, because i'll want that. I'll just summarize: awesome time at the US Open last September! XDD I finally got to

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[cloudtrader]

Oh, right! I just find the cricket trashtalking in forums and such so very, very silly. Sports fans are so obsessively strange sometimes! I have an ex who was into cricket. This one time, we were driving past a footie stadium (in Nottingham, I think, because we were visiting his sister), and the local team had just won and the fans were exuberantly streaming out of the stadium and this one guy reached into the car and kissed me. Had my ex mumbling about football hooligans and how much more civilized cricket fans were for MONTHS, completely un-ironically, which was silly since I'd totally seen him cussing and yelling at cricket matches (which he Stockholm Syndrome'd me into enjoying, too, somehow). lol

I like living in a different country. I was in England (Cheltenham) for a few months, but I actually lived in Japan for a year teaching English. I was thinking about going to Russia or the U.A.E. or Thailand or something. Or maybe even back to Japan (which would definitely be easiest).

Forget Swedish, for Scandinavian languages, Finnish is definitely the one to go! Besides, Finland has the bestest music. Plus, it is one of the absolute hardest languages in the world to learn! If you're going to do it, go big! Hehehe.

It seems to me that the LJ community has died down a lot. Many people have moved to Tumblr and Dreamwidth and stuff. I've recently been getting into Google+ as a networking platform, particularly since I've been playing Ingress (an ARRG, or Alternate Reality Roleplaying Game played in real time out on the streets of the world) (Resistance is futile, you will be Enlightened.), but Google+ has some of the same limitations as other non-journaling platforms. I do agree with you -- I miss LJ!

Heheh, glad the new roomie is working out.