Well... I know that I haven't updated this in a while and I do have some things to say, but I don't really have time to write them now. I'll have to organize my thoughts later today and put some things down.
I haven't been feeling well at all this past week... some kind of stomach bug that never really manifests itself, just makes me feel all-around miserable. It seems to be improving, however, so I hope it keeps on that road :)
Sho arrived safely and is now settled into his university. At first he grumbled a bit, but I'm sure it's just adjustment pangs :) I think we're probably going out this weekend... I am, at least, but I'm sure I'll hear from Sho sometime today.
Pam is going camping this weekend, so she's leaving tonight. She'll be back Monday, but then has to go straight out to Portland. At least I'll be able to use the car that week... I really have to get to my mom's place and sort out my taxes. It just hasn't been pressing because 1) sorting out taxes is time consuming, expensive, and wicked annoying; and 2) my mom isn't even there so it's hard to get up the motivation to get out there. I also desperately need my new credit cards and the keys to my storage unit, though, so...
I have some official Japanese study tomorrow... with textbooks and everything. Now that I feel I can't remember even basic vocabulary :) that should be interesting.
Finally, when I get back but before I really get started on my study, Taka and I are going to go to Hokkaido... which I've always wanted to do, so that should be really exciting!
That's enough for now... I'll try and write something interesting/serious later tonight. I have a lot of work to do on the computer so I'll be focusing my thoughts anyway :) as long as I'm not too exhausted from real stuff that needs to get done, I'll update again about what's actually going on in my head (as if anyone but the penguins cared, right...)
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Monday, August 21, 2006
Long Weekend
Well, Pam was away this weekend camping at Gathering of the Vibes, but somehow it didn't end up boring at all. I was pretty busy and there was a lot going on.
Friday started out pretty slow... just breakfast with a friend and working on some writing.
I started my real day in the evening (finally) meeting my Japanese Language Exchange Partner for some exciting Japanese practice... at least, that was the original plan. He was very nice and polite and his "terrible" English (according to him, not me) was so much better than my "terrible" Japanese that I wanted to just shut up. And, unfortunately, I mostly did. I hate being shy! LOL... but he was very patient and interesting, although he seemed extremely exhausted by the end of the session. Too much brain work, all this language exchange, I think. He lives on the upper-east side so we took the 4 train together, although by then I'm not sure he could process English anymore :-)
I ended up going out to the bar pretty late to meet up with Bruce and got some interesting information! He's finally quitting his job there! I'll miss him in that position, that's for sure, but I'm happy for him and I had decided to quit going there on Friday's myself anyway, so it works out pretty well! I was also introduced to some kind of flaming shot (the name of which I can't remember) and ended up doing three of them in a row. The shot has Bacardi 151 so I was quite happy for all of five minutes, then (needless to write) had to get home... very quickly :-)
Saturday morning my father gave me a call and woke me, but it was okay... I didn't really have a hang-over or anything. I was supposed to have dinner with his wife and him, but I had forgotten. Not to worry, though, he came into the city before I went out for Bruce's last Saturday and I found out that one of my favorite 焼肉 chains, 牛角, had recently opened a store in Coopers Sq! So, we went out for (way too much) yakiniku Saturday night... but it was delicious and (as I said) reminded me of home!
Bruce's last night was pretty great... I was worried at first because my friend Sue wasn't coming out, but I met a lot of other friends who usually don't go out on Saturday night so we had a blast. I paced my drinking much better--and started drinking on a full stomach, which helps sooo much! I did some kind of whiskey shot which I was supposed to like very much, so don't tell anyone how much I hated it ;-) and, of course, more flaming drinks--which seem to be all the craze these days!
I stayed out pretty late and then watched a movie when I got home, but I wasn't sick today. I just had a lazy day waiting for Pam to get back from camping, then out to a later dinner at a Polish place and finally home for some 24-action and sleep (although it's already 01:30 and I'm not really tired at all).
This week should be pretty busy... my favorite DJ's are spinning at the bar tonight so I'll be going there... plus it'll be Bruce's last Monday for hanging out. Monday night is usually good fun, though, and I get to practice my Japanese, although I'm usually a little drunk by the time my Japanese friends arrive, so I don't really learn all that much ;-)
Tuesday I have lunch with Frank (it was so great last week, I'm really looking forward to it this week), maybe meeting with my Japanese language exchange partner for some actual un-drunken practice, and finally closing the night with some Lavinia Draper! If you haven't seen her, you definitely have to! She is an absolute riot! She does a show every Tuesday night at Therapy (http://www.therapy-nyc.com/) starting at 23:00.
Sho is arriving at the end of the week, and there's a big party on Saturday. Hopefully he sleeps a lot on the plane :-) Should be a good week!
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Friday started out pretty slow... just breakfast with a friend and working on some writing.
I started my real day in the evening (finally) meeting my Japanese Language Exchange Partner for some exciting Japanese practice... at least, that was the original plan. He was very nice and polite and his "terrible" English (according to him, not me) was so much better than my "terrible" Japanese that I wanted to just shut up. And, unfortunately, I mostly did. I hate being shy! LOL... but he was very patient and interesting, although he seemed extremely exhausted by the end of the session. Too much brain work, all this language exchange, I think. He lives on the upper-east side so we took the 4 train together, although by then I'm not sure he could process English anymore :-)
I ended up going out to the bar pretty late to meet up with Bruce and got some interesting information! He's finally quitting his job there! I'll miss him in that position, that's for sure, but I'm happy for him and I had decided to quit going there on Friday's myself anyway, so it works out pretty well! I was also introduced to some kind of flaming shot (the name of which I can't remember) and ended up doing three of them in a row. The shot has Bacardi 151 so I was quite happy for all of five minutes, then (needless to write) had to get home... very quickly :-)
Saturday morning my father gave me a call and woke me, but it was okay... I didn't really have a hang-over or anything. I was supposed to have dinner with his wife and him, but I had forgotten. Not to worry, though, he came into the city before I went out for Bruce's last Saturday and I found out that one of my favorite 焼肉 chains, 牛角, had recently opened a store in Coopers Sq! So, we went out for (way too much) yakiniku Saturday night... but it was delicious and (as I said) reminded me of home!
Bruce's last night was pretty great... I was worried at first because my friend Sue wasn't coming out, but I met a lot of other friends who usually don't go out on Saturday night so we had a blast. I paced my drinking much better--and started drinking on a full stomach, which helps sooo much! I did some kind of whiskey shot which I was supposed to like very much, so don't tell anyone how much I hated it ;-) and, of course, more flaming drinks--which seem to be all the craze these days!
I stayed out pretty late and then watched a movie when I got home, but I wasn't sick today. I just had a lazy day waiting for Pam to get back from camping, then out to a later dinner at a Polish place and finally home for some 24-action and sleep (although it's already 01:30 and I'm not really tired at all).
This week should be pretty busy... my favorite DJ's are spinning at the bar tonight so I'll be going there... plus it'll be Bruce's last Monday for hanging out. Monday night is usually good fun, though, and I get to practice my Japanese, although I'm usually a little drunk by the time my Japanese friends arrive, so I don't really learn all that much ;-)
Tuesday I have lunch with Frank (it was so great last week, I'm really looking forward to it this week), maybe meeting with my Japanese language exchange partner for some actual un-drunken practice, and finally closing the night with some Lavinia Draper! If you haven't seen her, you definitely have to! She is an absolute riot! She does a show every Tuesday night at Therapy (http://www.therapy-nyc.com/) starting at 23:00.
Sho is arriving at the end of the week, and there's a big party on Saturday. Hopefully he sleeps a lot on the plane :-) Should be a good week!
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Monday, August 14, 2006
Proud to be an American!
The following is taken from Angry Girl and can be found here:
[Note: Please follow the link to the original to see data which supports all the the claims. I have listed Angry Girl's facts but to save space haven't reproduced the entire page here.]
Did you know....
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.
10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.
13. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.
14. Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the
17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.
20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
[Note: Please follow the link to the original to see data which supports all the the claims. I have listed Angry Girl's facts but to save space haven't reproduced the entire page here.]
20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA
Did you know....
1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.
10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.
13. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.
14. Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the
17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.
20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
Connecticut Sunday
To end this weekend, Pam and I drove up to Hartford to eat at Shady Glen--cheeseburgers and shakes. It's definitely one of the best places around to eat! So delicious and the cheese is fried over the edge of the burger.
I wish I had remembered to take some pictures, but it's a 50's-style restaurant with home-made ice cream, shakes, and softdrinks. They still do everything the old-fashioned way, too! For instance, if you buy a coke, they mix the syrup manually. A chocolate shake is made by adding real fudge to milk and vanilla ice cream and then blending.
After lunch, we headed over to meet Jodie and Kevin (Pam's best friend and her boyfriend) to hang out for the rest of the day. We all decided that it was far too nice outside to hang out inside, so we went out for a nice afternoon of golfing (of the miniature variety). Kevin won the day, but I'm pretty sure that I came in last :-)
Before dinner, Jodie, Pam and I went to the bridal shop to see some of the dresses she had tried on a couple of weeks ago. Well, there was one that I really liked on her because I thought it suited her personality, but then she showed us the one that was on the top of the list and it was just perfect! It even made Jodie cry :-) She looked amazing! Honestly, though, I definitely don't envy anyone wearing one of those in July :-)
We tried to make it home in time to watch Entourage, but we just missed it. This week should be nice... I'm going to the Bronx Zoo, which I haven't been to since I was a kid. I'm pretty excited about that. The second season of Weeds starts today on Shotime, plus Pam's building her machine with a pre-release copy of Vista so I'm really excited to see how that looks :-) We've been downloading it all weekend... hopefully we'll build it today!
As for Saturday, that was a lot of fun too. Pam and I went to the Web so she could sing some karaoke and she did an amazing job, as usual! All the boys came up to her crying and complemented her on her beautiful voice and told her how moved they were (I guess the flowing tears require further, vocal explanation in New York--just to be sure). Pam was exhausted and went home shortly afterwards, but I stayed with Sue for the party and generally enjoyed myself.
I wish I had remembered to take some pictures, but it's a 50's-style restaurant with home-made ice cream, shakes, and softdrinks. They still do everything the old-fashioned way, too! For instance, if you buy a coke, they mix the syrup manually. A chocolate shake is made by adding real fudge to milk and vanilla ice cream and then blending.
After lunch, we headed over to meet Jodie and Kevin (Pam's best friend and her boyfriend) to hang out for the rest of the day. We all decided that it was far too nice outside to hang out inside, so we went out for a nice afternoon of golfing (of the miniature variety). Kevin won the day, but I'm pretty sure that I came in last :-)
Before dinner, Jodie, Pam and I went to the bridal shop to see some of the dresses she had tried on a couple of weeks ago. Well, there was one that I really liked on her because I thought it suited her personality, but then she showed us the one that was on the top of the list and it was just perfect! It even made Jodie cry :-) She looked amazing! Honestly, though, I definitely don't envy anyone wearing one of those in July :-)
We tried to make it home in time to watch Entourage, but we just missed it. This week should be nice... I'm going to the Bronx Zoo, which I haven't been to since I was a kid. I'm pretty excited about that. The second season of Weeds starts today on Shotime, plus Pam's building her machine with a pre-release copy of Vista so I'm really excited to see how that looks :-) We've been downloading it all weekend... hopefully we'll build it today!
As for Saturday, that was a lot of fun too. Pam and I went to the Web so she could sing some karaoke and she did an amazing job, as usual! All the boys came up to her crying and complemented her on her beautiful voice and told her how moved they were (I guess the flowing tears require further, vocal explanation in New York--just to be sure). Pam was exhausted and went home shortly afterwards, but I stayed with Sue for the party and generally enjoyed myself.
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Lazy Week
This week has been a fairly lazy week, although a lot has been going on. I've been meaning to update this since last Saturday, during which I got a little bit... shall we say buzzed?
The night started out pretty well, and, in fact, was going really well--up until the point when I decided to order Champagne. In order to celebrate Pam and Kasper's engagement a group of us met up at the Web including Bill, Becky, and others. We were waiting for Pam & Kasper to arrive from a concert on Randall's Island which went way too late. I decided to order a bottle of Champagne for the celebration, but because everyone was tired and they arrived so late, there was a bit of Champagne left over. I ended up finishing it off and had a really great night... at first. Basically I don't remember much after drinking the champagne except finding myself over the toilet much later that night. Apparently I was quite amusing :-)
Other than the long recovery this week, it wasn't all that bad. I'm sure I have much more to relate, but it's already getting late and I'm hungry. Tonight Pam is going to sing some Karaoke as well as one of my other friends, and the DJ's girlfriend (who ended up having some of that champagne as well) insisted that I come to her party, so that's after. Also, I guess I gave my number to some strange woman who insists on text messaging me quite a lot... God, I hope I'm still gay! :-)
The night started out pretty well, and, in fact, was going really well--up until the point when I decided to order Champagne. In order to celebrate Pam and Kasper's engagement a group of us met up at the Web including Bill, Becky, and others. We were waiting for Pam & Kasper to arrive from a concert on Randall's Island which went way too late. I decided to order a bottle of Champagne for the celebration, but because everyone was tired and they arrived so late, there was a bit of Champagne left over. I ended up finishing it off and had a really great night... at first. Basically I don't remember much after drinking the champagne except finding myself over the toilet much later that night. Apparently I was quite amusing :-)
Other than the long recovery this week, it wasn't all that bad. I'm sure I have much more to relate, but it's already getting late and I'm hungry. Tonight Pam is going to sing some Karaoke as well as one of my other friends, and the DJ's girlfriend (who ended up having some of that champagne as well) insisted that I come to her party, so that's after. Also, I guess I gave my number to some strange woman who insists on text messaging me quite a lot... God, I hope I'm still gay! :-)
Thursday, August 10, 2006
My Politics According to OKCupid
I saw this test on my brother's MySpace page and although I've taken it before on my own OKCupid account, I decided to give it another round and see if OKCupid thinks my politics have changed at all over the past two years. Well, below is my current political view and the only difference between this and the last time I took this (in Oct. of 2004) is that my Economic score went from 28% to 30%. I suppose I'm getting softer in my old age, huh?
You are a Social Liberal (80% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (30% permissive) You are best described as a:
Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid Free Online Dating Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test |
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Bedbugs make a comeback in the U.S. - Sleep - MSNBC.com
Bedbugs make a comeback in the U.S. - Sleep - MSNBC.com
This is something Brian wished to share with me, so in turn, I wished to share it with all of you. So far I haven't seen any evidence of an infestation here yet, but I'll let you know if I find any.
If I do find some, however, I wonder... should I post pictures of them curiously feeding on me, or does that qualify as TMI?
[Edit: updated some word usage in order to contribute to a happier, more well-balanced world. Please see comments for notes.]
This is something Brian wished to share with me, so in turn, I wished to share it with all of you. So far I haven't seen any evidence of an infestation here yet, but I'll let you know if I find any.
If I do find some, however, I wonder... should I post pictures of them curiously feeding on me, or does that qualify as TMI?
[Edit: updated some word usage in order to contribute to a happier, more well-balanced world. Please see comments for notes.]
Friday, August 04, 2006
Food for Thought
Well, today was supposed to be a relatively busy, but mostly relaxed day. As time progresses and I don't, however, I can see my plans for study, socializing, helping friends and fun may end up being a nice, stress-filled race from one event to the next.
Originally I had plans to meet a friend of mine that I haven't seen in a year and a half for lunch... but his work schedule changed at the last minute making him unavailable. That wasn't too big a problem because another friend of mine asked if I could help him move in the morning. He suggested lunch so it wouldn't be any big deal... especially since we could start early and I could see my other friend.
Well, he called around lunch time and I basically ate instant (organic and wholesome ;-) Mac&Cheese alone at the apartment. Now I'm not sure if or when I'll be able to see my other friend, how long the moving will take, or if I'll be able to keep my study appointment... it's late and I'm already tired and bored at home :) but never fear, I'm optimistic because whatever happens today, I have a coco-tini waiting for me tonight :-)
On the very bright side, at least I missed the hottest part of the day and it's nice and cool in the apartment right now! On another side note, I'm desperately waiting to hear how a friend's first date went tonight... he said he was actually nervous for the first time in a long time to go out on the date. I'm assuming it went really well since I haven't heard anything :-)
Originally I had plans to meet a friend of mine that I haven't seen in a year and a half for lunch... but his work schedule changed at the last minute making him unavailable. That wasn't too big a problem because another friend of mine asked if I could help him move in the morning. He suggested lunch so it wouldn't be any big deal... especially since we could start early and I could see my other friend.
Well, he called around lunch time and I basically ate instant (organic and wholesome ;-) Mac&Cheese alone at the apartment. Now I'm not sure if or when I'll be able to see my other friend, how long the moving will take, or if I'll be able to keep my study appointment... it's late and I'm already tired and bored at home :) but never fear, I'm optimistic because whatever happens today, I have a coco-tini waiting for me tonight :-)
On the very bright side, at least I missed the hottest part of the day and it's nice and cool in the apartment right now! On another side note, I'm desperately waiting to hear how a friend's first date went tonight... he said he was actually nervous for the first time in a long time to go out on the date. I'm assuming it went really well since I haven't heard anything :-)
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Al knows it's hot too!
This week has been hot. Really damned hot, even inside. If that wasn't enough, the power went out Tuesday evening and was out most of the next day.My intention was to write more about what's been going on since I arrived, but unfortunately, either the power's been out or it's just been too hot to go near the computer.
Last night, in an attempt to hide from the heat a bit, I saw the Al Gore movie, An Inconvenient Truth. It was pretty interesting, but I thought that they could have done better. For one thing it was a bit too long, IMHO. And a lot of that time was spent in some kind of profile shot of Al workin' his Mac assembling the presentation he was giving during the movie. There were also some cut-away portions where Al tried to be more sympathetic to the audience, but I didn't feel that it really worked. He had the material and he was a capable speaker, so I think it took a lot away from his presentation when we're not only offered such obvious "connect with me now, plebs" moments, but forced to sit thought them when we could otherwise be relieving ourselves of the "one sip too many," if you know what I mean.
The other big problem I had with the film was that it was obviously originally a presentation designed to be given to relatively small groups with something in common. Using the scenes in the movie as a guide, it appeared that his audience were generally international student bodies and gala (maybe charity?) events. Because of that, I didn't feel the message really translated as well to the big screen as it could have. Don't get me wrong, the presentation was good and easy to follow, and could even be very informative to some, I'm sure, but in the end, I didn't feel that individual audience members (who don't have an opportunity for Q&A and whose situations may all be very different) were really left with anything they could take away and act on immediately to relieve some of the serious concerns presented in the film.
Other than that, I thought it was pretty good. And I'm glad that somebody told me that it's hot out there, otherwise I may never have known :) Seriously though, it's makes a nice 100 minutes of over-powered air conditioning if you want to escape the mean streets for a bit.
Oh, if you were wondering about the picture of Pam, that was from last year when it was slightly cooler outside and I thought she looked pretty cool herself in the picture. Also, she and her fiancee are away this week so it's so lonely (*pout, pout*), although tomorrow should be relatively busy for me... but that will be mostly running around in the heat. I suppose you could say that it doesn't really have anything to do with this entry (you'd be right, of course), but then I'd just be forced to respond with, "get over it." By the way, it's almost 21:00 and it's still too damned hot!
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Back to Blogging
To blog or not to blog...
Well, I haven't really updated this thing for about a year... but I've decided to start doing this on a more regular basis. For now I suppose this will be a place to dump things going on in my life... things I'm thinking about, things I'm doing, things I'm writing. I do intend to keep this updated so if you're interested in any of these things, please pop by from time to time.
Which journal to use?
I used to keep two journals, one here on blogspot and another over on livejournal, but I think that I prefer the blogspot system more, so I'll update this one from now on. I'll automatically feed my livejournal page from here, but if you're actually interested in what's going on with me, I suppose here will be the place to come.
What's happening with your Japanese?
I went to Japan last year in order to learn Japanese... but I let my shyness and perfectionism get the best of me time and again (read: I don't practice because I'm afraid that I suck too hard), but I'm pretty much done with that. I'm back in New York for the summer (I'll write more about this later) and I'm already actively trying to practice my speaking. To keep with that, I intend to keep a simple Japanese journal as well, but I'll be keeping it on Mixi, the Japanese version of MySpace. For those of you actually interested in reading my Japanese blog, but not interested in joining the Mixi community (it's by invitation only), I may keep a copy of that blog here... but only if people actually ask (not that I really see that happening ;-)
Well, I haven't really updated this thing for about a year... but I've decided to start doing this on a more regular basis. For now I suppose this will be a place to dump things going on in my life... things I'm thinking about, things I'm doing, things I'm writing. I do intend to keep this updated so if you're interested in any of these things, please pop by from time to time.
Which journal to use?
I used to keep two journals, one here on blogspot and another over on livejournal, but I think that I prefer the blogspot system more, so I'll update this one from now on. I'll automatically feed my livejournal page from here, but if you're actually interested in what's going on with me, I suppose here will be the place to come.
What's happening with your Japanese?
I went to Japan last year in order to learn Japanese... but I let my shyness and perfectionism get the best of me time and again (read: I don't practice because I'm afraid that I suck too hard), but I'm pretty much done with that. I'm back in New York for the summer (I'll write more about this later) and I'm already actively trying to practice my speaking. To keep with that, I intend to keep a simple Japanese journal as well, but I'll be keeping it on Mixi, the Japanese version of MySpace. For those of you actually interested in reading my Japanese blog, but not interested in joining the Mixi community (it's by invitation only), I may keep a copy of that blog here... but only if people actually ask (not that I really see that happening ;-)
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