I added enough new friends in the past couple of weeks that I guess an intro post is in order. I've never done one of these before, so this should be interesting. I don't know that there's a prescribed format, so I'm just making this up as I go.

( Cut because this is tl;dr for those of you who already know me, and a few of the rest of you might not actually care. )

1. Post about something that made you happy today, even if it’s just a small thing.
2. Do this every day for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same.It's warm today. After having been freezing cold (temps in the 20s, perceived temps due to wind chill in the teens or occasionally even below) for about a week, for some reason it' ( Read more... )

1. Post about something that made you happy today, even if it’s just a small thing.
2. Do this every day for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same.

Day 5 (Sunday): The bad news was, I did not get started on work nearly as early as I should've, and I ended up having to stay up until past 4 AM finishing my Web Design project. ( Read more... )

1. Post about something that made you happy today, even if it’s just a small thing.
2. Do this every day for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same.

I'm counting this as today because it was after midnight: We went to Austin's house, and several mutual friends came over. First, we pulled up the Hoshi Saga games (those of you ( Read more... )

1. Post about something that made you happy today, even if it’s just a small thing.
2. Do this every day for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same.Today was the last day of regular classes of the semester. I only ever have one class on Fridays anyway, and I decided not to go to work. In Japanese, we had a sort of end-of- ( Read more... )

1. Post about something that made you happy today, even if it’s just a small thing.
2. Do this every day for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same.This morning, I got to sleep in a little bit again because I didn't have 15-462 at 10:30am like I normally do. Today was the final exam for those who don't want to take it on the ( Read more... )

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1. Post about something that made you happy today, even if it’s just a small thing.
2. Do this every day for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same.This morning, I got to sleep in because attendance in my Web Design class was not required, so I didn't have to be anywhere until noon. This means I got to sleep late ( Read more... )

Life After Japan
The first few days were difficult. There was a strong sense of unreality in being back here-I kept expecting that any minute, I’d wake up in my dorm as usual, eat my breakfast bento, and head to school on the subway.

Unfortunately ( Read more... )

So today in Japanese class, we were learning how to describe the placement of objects using the ～て＋ある form. In our Japanese classes, we tend to spend a lot of time doing "classroom activities", which basically involve interviewing classmates and having them interview you, while applying the new grammar and vocabulary we just learned. We usually do ( Read more... )

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