wow.... can't believe it's already been a year since i came back to Japan. i can't believe that i haven't updated livejournal since April, which as far as i'm concerned might as well be a year ago itself. i also haven't been checking my friends page at all, so i know i've missed out on a lot of important things in other people's lives... sorry ( Read more... )

sigh. it's becoming hard for me to remain optimistic having had all these interviews without any job offer yet.... it doesn't help that i'm suffering from PMS induced depression right now, which has made getting out of bed a difficult task ( Read more... )

....so i've been here for two weeks. what have i accomplished ( Read more... )

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only two days remain until i have to turn in my recontracting form... in signing the form as not recontracting, not only will i be signing away my job, apartment and visa in japan. i will also be officializing the beginning of the end of this "chapter" of my life ( Read more... )

sorry for the lack of explanation in my last entry, i just felt i had to archive my feelings upon finding out about a working holiday visa via lj. :'x no, i haven't gotten the visa yet, but thanks for the congrats in advance. ;)

since last saturday up until last night me and David had diligently been looking into & preparing to apply for a Partner ( Read more... )

this weekend has been pretty... eventful ( Read more... )

one day, behind my house there will be a little greenhouse ( Read more... )

maybe i should forget about trying to go to grad school and just focus on getting into/through a good Japanese language school... after all, going to grad school for translation wouldn`t even be possible without near-native fluency in Japanese in the first place... >_>;; and perhaps graduating from a good Japanese language school in Japan and being ( Read more... )

so, i`ve been doing more thinking lately about what to do after this job... it feels like just the other day that when people asked me how long i`d been here i started saying "a year and a half" instead of "a year", but now whenever people ask and then find out when i got here (they often ask that too for some reason) they say "oh, almost two years ( Read more... )