Funny how things start to work themselves out when you're getting ready to leave.  Everything's back to optimal.  Plus, today's my last day at work, so... whoo!

I bought my plane ticket today!  All this stuff is making it seem so much more real.  Though I bet when I start packing is when it will really sink in that I am leaving for a year.

Ugh!  Can't think about it.  It makes me too sad.  I guess we'll just have to make the most of what's left of the summer!

So I just found out that I got my Certificate of Eligibility to get my visa.  Soon I will be able to work in Japan for a year!  Yesterday my mother and I went on the most boring/grownup shopping trip I have ever been on.  I need at least 3 suits to wear to work, as I must be professional everyday.  I feel like I'm playing dress-up in my grandmother ( Read more... )

So I just found out yesterday that I was offered a job to go teach English in Japan.  I'm so excited!  I leave August 20th, and my contract will be up 9/4/2010.  I have until Monday afternoon to make up my mind, but I already know I want to go, and my parents are fine with it, so it's pretty much a done deal.  I'm being placed in Akita prefecture, ( Read more... )

I meant to wear a mini-skirt out tonight.  Despite the lack of skin showing (or maybe because of the lack of skin), I made it home safely.  Yay!

I'm not sure I understand this phenomenon, or why it happens, but I am apparently physically incapable of turning off Pride and Prejudice when it's on TV.  No matter how tired I am, no matter what else I want to be doing/am supposed to be doing, I must watch it until the end.  This goes for both the mini-series and the new movie.  But especially ( Read more... )

I know what I'll be doing next year!  No, it's not Grad school.  I'm going to Japan!  I got a job with AEON, and will be teaching English in Japan for at least 1 year.  Probably more.  This of course means that any of my friends who have always wanted to travel to Asia will have a free place to stay and a tour guide ( Read more... )

I believe I slept too much Saturday night.  I'm usually quite a solid, sound sleeper (on my own at least), but last night I found myself waking up over and over again.  The theme of my dreams for the past week seems to be old friends, not quite forgotten.  I've been puzzling over who was in my dream last night, but I cannot for the life of me ( Read more... )

Graduate schools and the fact that apparently none of them want me ( Read more... )

that I don't care about the JET program or Stanford anyway.  And I hope the Ducks beat the pants off of Stanford at the next U of O basketball game.  Take that and so there!

Tonight I start operation Birthday Week: Take 2.  By default it will be better than this past week.