I know a couple of you prolly already saw this but,   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRNE3SNb2mo&feature=player_embedded

YES?

YES.

I am more excited than I really should be considering how out of this fandom I have been. but FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.

HEY HEY HEY AMBER. You're TAKING CLASSES, right? I haven't seen you at ALL. Do you just run home immediately after class or something? That's no fun. We have to hang out more. Or you'll get bored so easilyyy.

What are your classes like?
And happy birthday!

first paycheck, for two weeks, was $357! yay. :3

I'm off to work in a few minutes~. First day! Good stuff. This could have just as easily been twote, I suppose. But meh. Meh. There, see? now it's over the limit, and I hate posting more than one. 8V;

Perhaps I'll post about it when I return, but it's just training in the back room, so it won't be particularly exciting. XD

I got hired at Sears. I didn't want to work at the Mall particularly, but oh well. XDD

DON'T GET ME WRONG. I AM HAPPY AND SUPEREXCITED. XD;

I'm home!!! ☆


❝which 'dere' are you ?❞

WHY AM I IN THE BOOTH NEXT TO THE PERSON WHO LOLS AND EATS CHIPS LOUDLY WITH THEIR MOUTH OPEN AND SNORES LITERALLY EVERY NIGHT. WTF IS THIS THE SAME PERSON? I'M PRETTY SURE IT'S NOT, BUT IT'S ANNOYING XD

EDIT: Order now and he also comes with loud noodle slurping and coughing (also loud mouse clicking. Everyoone is doing computer stuff, but he somehow manages to attack the mouse key). Same guy, no joke. I seriously believe he was genetically engineered to make every obnoxious noise possible. XD;;

Aaaargh. Today was somehow the best day for almost all of it, and then turned into one of the worse ones. XDD

I'll just tell it like the story it is! Starting from last night, I suppose. From Shinjuku, I was talking to Asami (for those of you who don't know, that's Kosuke's sister. Kosuke, that's your sister. In case you didn't know. That would be weird.) on MSN, and on a previous day she said that the day she was free was the 12th (today :B), so we arranged to meet in Akihabara at 10AM. After sleeping in, not being able to take a shower (which was okay I guess because yesterday's was later than usual?), and carrying my huge bag way too much, I got to Akihabara at about...8:15. Ugh. Days are way too long. I want to play Harvest Moon 64 to make up for it. I ate at McDonald's solely so I could just sit in there (and also because I needed breakfast I guess) and I played DS for a while, and fell asleep. XD

I woke up at an approriate time (9:20 or so) and left to walk around a bit. 9:50 rolled around after I did practically nothing for a while, and then I went to the agreed upon station entrance. Keep in mind, I have seen one photograph, that Kosuke has, that's a small group photo from multiple years ago. Needless to say I did not recognize her.

No, at all.

Like-- even though I was waiting for her, when she approached me and talked to me, it didn't register that it was her for about 5 seconds when she knew my name. XDD;;

Anywho, at first it was really awkward. We've talked before, but only on MSN, and obviously it was a lot harder for me here. But after a while, that just faded into the usual inability for me to speak fluent Japanese. Somehow, I understand things she says less than other people. Perhaps she uses odd grammar? Whatever, it's good practice. We walked aimlessly for a while, then went to a game center, where I played Pop'n. I felt better after that. We both started to warm up a little, and actually could talk (except that there were lots of people, so I couldn't hear the already difficult things being said). She seems like a completely different person in person. In a good way, though! Online, I always got the feeling that she was kind of cold (she says it's probably because it's japanese, but I don't feel like that talking to other people, I don't know. XD), but it was completely different. She was really nice and lots of fun!!

I became hungry again, and actually FORGOT that I had eaten, somehow (*New!* McAmnesiaBurger. You'll buy it 6 times in a row), so we went to a ramen place. It was pretty good, and I chose the cheapest place I could find that looked good. We didn't talk much during this time, but I guess that's kinda normal because we were eating. XD Afterwards though, she wouldn't let me pay, and said her mother said to take care of me, and presumably gave her money to do so?, and that was very nice. I keep wanting to say that your Mother is a lot nicer than mine, Kosuke, but I remember that mine does the same thing for friends and guests. I'm just not used to being on this side of it. XD anyways, we walked aimlessly for a while again, went to Animate for a while, and then went to a little store where I bought an amazing Akihabara souvenier. A Maid-Cosplaying-Keroro cell phone strap. Oh god. The packaging says 「秋葉原で萌え～であります」.way too good. After that, and more walking around...

I got tired of walking around. Surprised? If you are, it's weird. I'm tired of even TYPING "walked around" at this point. XD Because of this, I suggested we go somewhere where we could just sit and talk. A little coffee shop was the closest thing, sooo we went there. I got an iced latte, and she got an iced MAPLE latte. Fancy. Maple latte, huh? I had never heard of it. There was unarguably the best part of the day, since we just sat and talked for well over an hour. It became 1:15, and she had to meet her friends from school (they were meeting in Akihabara, which is why we met there also), so we walked back to the station and I waited with her there. there were supposedly 3, all from a music club, all male.  SO, the first one showed up. His name was Gouya. He seemed nice! Not the kind of person people would usually peg as "cool", but he certainly wasn't bad looking. We waited there some more, and the second showed up. I didn't hear his real name, but everyone called him Shachou. I thought that was pretty funny. He WAS pretty stereotypically cool, actually. XD we waited for the third person, then Shachou got a call from him, and it turns out he weasn't coming. So, with that I said my farewells. I didn't know what their plans were, but I knew they were school friends, and I knew there were indeed plans. i was almost out of the station when I heard my name, though, and it was Asami coming to tell me that Shachou suggested I go with them! Obviously I had no plans, so I went. XD

Turns out they had very nice plans: 3 hour karaoke. XD

That was interesting. Asami is way too good at singing, Shachou sings like 89 octaves above his normal voice (he sang Koi no Mikuru Densetsu and it sounded like the actual version. What?), and Gouya sng only English songs, in like-- metal voice. And when we did group songs or he did Japanese songs, he used the same voice. It was kinda weird being a lone foreigner there, but because of those two and their ridiculousness, I was alright. Also I sang a Hikawa Kiyoshi song. XD

After that, we went to a cosplay store, because they were looking at stuff, I dunno.

Okay here it goes.

So anyways. It was time for them to go. That's fine, I mean, it was past six. It'd been about 8 hours. So WHY, one might ask (and I have) did I start crying before even leaving the station? I honestly have no idea. I felt fine at the time, I really did. It was a good, fulfilling day. Without doubt the most fun I'd had since I got here. And at the same time, Kosuke, I understand everything you so often mention completely now. With a group like that,　at times I was really glad to be among friends  and doing things, and at other times, I felt more alone than when I was by myself.;;

Argh. It wouldn't be so bad if I had the option to NOT go out and be doing something fior 12 hours out of the day. But that's not an option I really have. Being in one of the busiest cities in the world, alone, with nothing but time and an umbrella that won't fit in the coin locker unless you pay an extra 100 yen to get a bigger one, is horrid, no matter how fun it is or how many things there are to do.

Gaah, if ever I envied someone (mm, I have XD), I envy you right now, Val. Not only do you HAVE somewhere to stay, not only is it with a family you know someone from, but a family in which I absolutely adore nearly every member of (not all only because I have not met everyone). Just that, coupled with my general BLAH. Even if I were with people I didn't know every day, it'd be significantly better.

fffffffffffff, I severely dislike the me that exists right now, and I would like to change it. 8U Seriously, I don't know why it's affecting me as much as it is. This should be a fun time for me. It's my vacation, but I go from crying to laughing to talking to myself in under 30 seconds.

...Okay well, that was once, in the elevator, but I thought it was a pretty good example. XD; I want to say something like "is this normal?", but that'd be a silly question.

Cheer up, emo kid, you're in JAPAN. /note to self. XD;;

Icon way too relevant. XD;

I bought another pair of pants and a shirt today.

They are good.

I am tired.

And blasphemously, kiiinda bored. There's so much stuff to do, but-- it's all pretty boring alone. I'm one of those people who would rather have the company of someone they dislike than no one at all. I need human interaction constantly to thrive, and a country of people who speak a different language and are typically not particularly outgoing is not the way to go about that. XDD

whatevs. I'll feel better when Koーsuke and Val get here I'm sure. ;-;

So far I have bought a bag, a scarf, two shirts, a pair of pants （THAT FITS AND IS AMAZING). a necklace (two crowns), a brooch of a crest with the fleur de lis and a crown), and a ring on a string. Okay, it's a ring on a little necklace chain, but that doesn't sound as funny. XD Also a crown. :U

Last night was the first nihgt I didn't stay at the SAME internet Cafe. It had been DiCE every previous night, in Yokosuka, but last night was Shibuya . I went to Harajuku too yesterday. And today I did my laundry in Shibuya. Ahaha XD

After that I went to where I spent the last 8 hours. Akihabaraaaaaaaaaaaa. It's pretty okay, and I had some good curry. Opted not to go to a maid cafe by myself. Thought it'd be weird. XD

I need to find an actual bank tomorrow. I have run into the slight problem that ATMs don't take my ATM card. XD

Todaaaay I will go to Harajuku!

I will probably spend way too much money XD

But anyways. I need to find a coin laundry place there. ;-;

I'll letcha guys know how it goes!!

aaagh. Really tired. Too tired to talk about what I did today, which was nothing. I still haven't left Yokosuka, but I want tooooo.

But I got placed in the very small hallway on the second floor, the CLOSEST booth to the bathroom. With non-enclosedness it is very very loud. Pretty much the worst room in the place for that reason. XD

I'll probably put in my headphones on my iPod to make it easier. :I

I got my hair cut today. It is reaaaaaally short. I need to buy grey Gatsby so that I can make it do whatever I want.

The people working there were really nice. Maybe if I have nothing to do tomorrow I'll go see them again. XD

I'm really shy about ordering things or talking to clerks here in Japanese. I feel weirdddd.

But I just asked this guy where the closest coin lockers were and how much they were, and for some reason it felt GREAT. XDD

Also, for the duration of my trip I am going to pretty much ignore Twitter. I can't keep up with that fast-paced stuff with my limited access. XD;;

LJ WILL BE MY HOME. SEND ME MESSAGES THROUGH IT OR WHATEVER.

Hey hey, first post in a while.　How's it going, flist? I am typing this from Japan (so excuse my inability to accept the apostrophe as being　shift+7. So wrongggg.)

Anywhosen, I don't really ever think to take pictures, so I will recount today from my vivid memory. I woke up at 8AM, got ready and stuff, went to the airport, caught my 1:30 flight from Seattle to Narita.

On the flight is where a majority of my day was spent, really. due to awesome time changes, on a 10 hour flight, I was served two meals, and both were lunch, both between the hours of 2-3 PM, on different days. Time travel is fun.

There's really not an astounding amount of things that one can do on a plane, especially for 10 hours， so I took advantage of the moviewatching ability, passed up Watchmen, and watched Monsters vs, Aliens 2.5 times, pretty much evenly split v\between English and Japanese versions. I love it, I love all of it.

same movie 2 and a half times? must have taken a chunk of that flight away. Well, it did. A little less than half. So then I DID watch the Watchmen. People always query as to who watches them. Well, today, it was me and 80% of that flight. Val was correct by far about my favorite character. Good job.

Anyways, I got to the airport (Narita), changed some moneys, met up with Spoink and Ayumi, then we took a train to Yokosuka, where I currently am, and I am staying the night in an Internet Cafe. It:s $30 for a 12-hour night, including the internet, free manga and ps2 games to playyy, and the best part, a vending machine with little paper cups and beverages for FREE. I will drink so much Calpico and Melon soda in the next 12 hours that the room will pay for itself. (It won't.) I'm kinda tired because I didn't get to sleep on the plane, so I will probably retire for the night fairly quickly.

That is all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hsgG5r9aC0

I'M GONNA GET YOU

LIKE A SPACE BOY.

Hey hey everybody! Today, Monday, and for the next 8 or 9 Mondays following,  at 3:00PM PST, I will have a show on KSVR 91.7 for one hour, in which I will explore recent music in cultures worldwiiiide~!

There's also a streaming link at http://www.ksvr.org in case anyone not really really local wanted to listen!! I'm still learning, so it may not be fantastic, but I'm open to suggestions, requests, and the like. Basically, a radio show is not a show at all without listeners, so I am giving all of you -- You Flisty fantastic people -- the opportunity to be that audience.

This is basically a shameless plug for myself. Right here. On LiveJournal? Crazy, I know (nope). But hey, it's a non-commercial station, so we don't make money, yaaaay~. JUST GOOD OLD-FASHIONED AMERICAN FUN. Except my show will be very little American fun and more GLOBAL FUN. YAAAY

Also I don't have a cool name for my show yet. Help me, Flist. Help me with something Globally themed but modern and COOL. COOL LIKE YOU GUYS. ;-;

Because I don't have any uncool people on my flist. Except that one guy. Not you though.

That's all it's 3:00 AM why am I still up?

I've been kinda in a "Bleugh" sort of modd these past few days, with no partivular reason for it. And then...

On TV...

Was The Holiday. And I forgot. How much I love this movie. THIS MOVIE + ME = BIG DORKY SMILE FOR 2 HOURS STRAIGHT.

EDIT: NOT TRUE. I CRY ALSO.

And now. I feel fantastic. AIN'T NOTHIN' YOU CAN DO 'BOUT IT, SUCKAFOO'.

YEAH.

Anyone who hasn't seen this movie, SHOULD.

And anyone who has, now knows what a hopeless silly romantic I am. AND I'M OKAY WITH THAT. XD

ポップンには３７のラグタイムＥＸをクリアしたぜこのヤロー

I wanted to make an update that only 4 people on my list could read and 0 of them would understand/care. XD

So for some background information, I beat "Radical Ragtime Show", a 37 on EX.  I have been trying to do so for about a month, but there is literally ONE SECOND of craziness that kills me at the end. but I just beat it. yay me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVrWyjYsV00 It's this song. it's hard. But I like it a lot. ;-;

The whole section from like 1:27 on is hard, but 1:44 is where I usually lose it. XD

Hey everyone, don't forget to vote for Stephen Colbert's name to be on the Nasa Space Node at:
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/name_ISS/index.html

Do it and I will love you forever. Open until March 20th. One vote per day per person is allowed. After you vote, comment telling me you did to be eligible to recieve your free 'love forever' coupon.