Relationships are like a house of cards - it takes a long time to build them, and in the end their awesome, but all can be brought to ruin in a single breath.

Not that there was any impetus for this thought. I haven't accidentally destroyed a relationship in the last day or anything like that. It was just a random thought that floated by which I ( Read more... )

Yesterday was June 1st. Start of a new month, and the first day of actual classes ( Read more... )

Man, even with my host family going to bed every night at 8:30 p.m.-ish, I still find time hard to come by now that classes have started.
But I'll try and get through the next few days as quickly as possible :)

Day two of my homestay experience was interesting. I woke up around 8:00 a.m. and went downstairs, eating breakfast with the family and ( Read more... )

I hate to do this, but I have to say "To hell with Tokyo" for now. I really want to get to where I'm writing about my current day's events, so I'm going to skip ahead of those adventure-filled days and hop to getting to Nagoya, meeting my host family, and subsequent events.

Friday, May 28th, we woke up after a lazy evening the night before. I was up ( Read more... )

I'm going to attempt to power through the next two seven days of the trip thus far, mostly because I want to get caught up here so I can then upload a stupid amount of photos to facebook. This way I can start uploading photos from *this* Japan trip (since I've yet to finish uploading photos from my *last* time in Japan).

Day 3: Sunday, May 23rd
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So, Day 2: We all awoke...at 7:00 a.m.

Pissed at this, the other three went back to sleep. I tried to pass back out, but found that sleep would not return. For some reason I thought, "I'm wide awake, it's morning," and then rolled out of bed. Quietly grabbing my computer and headphones, I slipped out the door and went downstairs into the main lobby ( Read more... )

Consider this a reboot. A new beginnings of sort. At least, I hope it to be.
I want to begin keeping my journal on a daily basis again, if I can.
I just arrived back in Japan yesterday, and I'll be damned if I let this month-and-a-half experience fall by the wayside in words and letters as I have let the tail-end of Japan from Fall '09 and this ( Read more... )

I hold next to no regrets about things. I can't help them, so why fret? But the lack of love for this journal really is inexcusable. And I am so sad that all of the details of the misadventures and shenanigans of my time living homeless here in San Marcos have gone unrecorded in words. I've taken a bunch of pictures to document my time as a couch- ( Read more... )

I've been dying to write, but I've no time. Even now, I'm supposed to be reading any one of the five textbooks I need to read for class, but instead I find myself wandering around the internet like a restless ghost displaced from their favorite haunt. My favorite haunt being my life which has changed so drastically in such a short amount of time. ( Read more... )

Almost there, almost caught up!

This past Monday, two days ago, Emily and I went to ( Megadeth! )