omg people are so stupid. literally any time i talk about ex. studying abroad they go "yes but remember it's YOUR effort, if you don't try to fit in or learn the language blah blah..." yes, i think i know this, i've been living abroad since i was 18 and you can read all about it on my freaking blog profile (not on LJ but the site this took place on ( Read more... )

another year almost gone. i've got to step up my diet - can't EVER eat things that i'll probably get "sick" of, at least not until i'm out of this house. my body/mind clearly can't handle both the mental stress of this place and eating even very slightly processed food, and now because i ate some i basically went sleep deprived for almost a week, ( Read more... )

told my family about the potential study abroad in japan. dunno what they'll say exactly but i'm pretty sure if i don't do it, the degree will take another 4 years instead of another 2, and a $13,000 USD loan is fine with me if it saves 2 years of sanity and potentially gets me and my wife job experience ( Read more... )

keyboard is more broken than ever before, it's so bad i'm mostly using this computer just for reading. i'm borrowing my wife's smartphone to do flashcard stuff instead of doing it on the computer now ( Read more... )

passed my exam no problem, but i still have homework. i'm just so spent... the parents are being EXTREMELY irritating and extreme assholes, worse than usual, because some relatives are coming over for like a week. it's their own damn fault they haven't cleaned the house in 20 years, we constantly complain to them about it and they give a billion ( Read more... )

i'm not worried about the exam itself (even if i do badly i can't be so bad that i fail) BUT i'm STILL having groupwork problems. so, the one girl left our group, then the second had some kind of mental breakdown and isn't able to work right now. she's planning on working but we have like 5 group assignments to do, everything MUST be done in a week ( Read more... )

i have a lot of side-projects that will probably never get finished... and i just started another one. translating the pilot ep of due south to chinook jargon! i'm still learning it myself but i'll work on it off and on in my free time and hopefully it'll be finished someday.


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- i'm reading and/or writing in japanese EVERY day now, thanks to twitter. but as soon as i try to say something too complicated (like explaining an english phrase that has a lot of nuance) they stop being able to understand me... still i'm not even done with my first year of studies yet so i think i'm doing well.

- i began looking at indonesian and ( Read more... )

my wife and i have almost finished making a mini text adventure game, she's even made pictures for it. we're going to put it up on "itch" i think it's called, some site where people can name their price and thus donate money if they want ( Read more... )

GREAT NEWS!!!! studying in japan is free (=no tuition payments) if you’re a student at my uni! can work part-time & bring my wife! rent is super cheap! so my only costs would be food, transportation, free time stuff etc except i’d also get some help there because i’d get “student money” from the swedish government! (about enough to cover food only ( Read more... )