I'm so much busier than normal these days that I honestly can't think of anything particularly interesting to report that would stand out. Good kind of busy though; hanging out with friends and the like. I am getting very antsy waiting for some correspondence from Japan. I've got everything figured out for my year abroad, except I still have no ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty good Saturday so far, and it's not even 1:30 ( Read more... )

So, yesterday was my first advanced class at the dojo in 8 years. Now, I don't know how I made this sound in my last post, but the advanced class is where you are when you've finished all the basic stuff. To put things into perspective, you go into the advanced class when you're still a white belt, so it's not like I'm going into the crazy 'kill ( Read more... )

Lots going on these days. I finally got my paperwork that will allow me to obtain my student visa. Now I just need to find time to get over to the consulate. Everything's almost taken care of on that front ( Read more... )

And now it's time for the ever-so-fun update from work. I just finished the shareware version of good ol' DOOM, and find myself bored. Normally our summers are really mellow after rollout time is done, but for some reason we were getting killed all the way through last week. Now that we finally have some slow days, I don't know what to do with ( Read more... )

My normal life of constant verbal diarrhea doesn't transfer over to the world of writing it would seem. Let's see if I can fix that a bit ( Read more... )

Man, I thought I'd never get around to writing this damn thing. God bless that time in the morning before work. Well, the weekend was crazy. I'll do my best to give it a proper rundown ( Read more... )

Well, lemme tell ya, it's been a long couple of weeks since I last posted. First and foremost in the good news portion, I've been officially accepted to both the HUSTEP Program at Hokkaido University, and for an AIEJ scholorship consisting of a monthly stipend and airfare. There is a flipside though... when AIEJ was factored in, my Freeman ( Read more... )

Did some searching on Anime voice actors, and found some interesting stuff ( Read more... )

Okay, I told myself I wouldn't be doing one of these Karate blog posts afer every class, but today's was notable. Here we go ( Read more... )