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mugen_edamameLooks like LJ is starting to co-operate again. Honestly, if I didn't have buddies here I'd've jumped ship and just burn my time on DW. It does insist on kicking me out every time I log in, which is why updating hasn't happened as scheduled. Anyways,
HOW IS EVERYONE I HOPE EVERYONE IS WELL.
The welcoming of 2013 was plenty fun, we went to this restaurant/club place that caters to anyone with a head full of white hair, and there were two singers on stage singing mostly pre-war music (as far as I could tell, at least. I had a really long retro-music phase when I was a teen and I'm pretty decent at golden oldies, but some of the stuff that was playing apparently pre-dates the creation of the English language), with occasional nods to my family's requests to play more modern songs (so we could sing along, loudly and badly and along with the barkeep, to Adele). There were poppers and hats and masks and shouting and bad dancing and bad singing so all in all, it was great.
School started on Monday, but we only managed to reach Japan in the wee hours of Tuesday mornings, because flights from Friday through to the weekend were fully-booked. We took Tuesday off, because sleeping in class isn't my idea of a useful way to spend time, and instead headed off to the closest Ikea (which is still really far away) to buy duvets/comforters/quilts (I've got no idea how the classification of these things work). It was nice to see actually rural-y areas, with wide open fields and those high riverbanks you see in every manga ever. And there was a pretty great mall near Ikea, and we had first shabu-shabu (which I'd only recommend if you like meat and the taste of meat and the smell of meat and nothing but) that we changed into sukiyaki (which is craptastically fabulous honestly). Then we went to Ikea, wandering around and judging furniture. Though it's a long-ass train ride to get there, we got beautiful duck-feather duvets/comforters/quilts for a third of the price of the cheapest ones you could get near where we live. So, SUCCESS.
Really should be trying harder to study better, but I'm only human, and not a very good one at that.
Oh, our cat got into another big fight, and had her eyelid sliced open. When we saw her it was all meaty and bloody and I assumed the eyeball had just been clawed out. Took her to the vet, and after the swelling went down she looks pretty fine, if, oh, seven thousand fourty three times more evil than ever before. She's aggressive and bad-tempered and has the physical build of a cow but we love her dearly and wish she would stop getting serious injuries from fending off other cats (we fend them off too, and have the helpful attribute of being very, very much bigger.
What else...
I want everyone to come to Japan and/or Malaysia so I'd have more friends because I made lots of friends in 2011 because who knows why and it went so well that I'd forgotten that I'm actually bad at making friends. The desperate ache to have a long hearty chat with someone can't always be filled by my little sister, because while she's easily the best match for me to talk about almost all things, she's still littler, and some things you just can't tell to littler ones.
OH. THE MAIN THING.
Scheduled for surgery on my knee, end of next month. The doctor's appointment letter is a terrifying beast, and his explanation of cutting out my knee cap, putting it back in the right place, and shaving off my tendons and cartilage and stuff till it all rests pretty is effing terrifying. University preparation course starts in April, and who knows what frame of mind I'll be in since I'll be in recovery through all of March. HOPE THE BEST FOR ME, PLEASE ;A;
Spending winter holidays at home was fantastic. Hot weather, good food, cheap movie tickets, and easily the best company ever. I'm ridiculously thankful that dad works for an airline, and booking tickets is both convenient and, more importantly, not that expensive. Though if anything I do worry it makes me even less inclined to go Out There and mingle and stuff god what is wrong with me.
So that's the past week or so. It's been going okay, but I'm starting that slow-burn panic trying to think about university applications (the processes here are both archaic and extremely hasty), because the one I'd like to go for has its deadline while I'm back home probably heavily sedated with a newly-fixed (hopefully) kneecap.
PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE THINGS OUT MY FRIENDS.
And generally, of course, take care c:
ur Holiday in Langkawi. That's my cat's head. I am very brown indeed. Don't look at the text if you have ever held love for me in your heart.
HOW IS EVERYONE I HOPE EVERYONE IS WELL.
The welcoming of 2013 was plenty fun, we went to this restaurant/club place that caters to anyone with a head full of white hair, and there were two singers on stage singing mostly pre-war music (as far as I could tell, at least. I had a really long retro-music phase when I was a teen and I'm pretty decent at golden oldies, but some of the stuff that was playing apparently pre-dates the creation of the English language), with occasional nods to my family's requests to play more modern songs (so we could sing along, loudly and badly and along with the barkeep, to Adele). There were poppers and hats and masks and shouting and bad dancing and bad singing so all in all, it was great.
School started on Monday, but we only managed to reach Japan in the wee hours of Tuesday mornings, because flights from Friday through to the weekend were fully-booked. We took Tuesday off, because sleeping in class isn't my idea of a useful way to spend time, and instead headed off to the closest Ikea (which is still really far away) to buy duvets/comforters/quilts (I've got no idea how the classification of these things work). It was nice to see actually rural-y areas, with wide open fields and those high riverbanks you see in every manga ever. And there was a pretty great mall near Ikea, and we had first shabu-shabu (which I'd only recommend if you like meat and the taste of meat and the smell of meat and nothing but) that we changed into sukiyaki (which is craptastically fabulous honestly). Then we went to Ikea, wandering around and judging furniture. Though it's a long-ass train ride to get there, we got beautiful duck-feather duvets/comforters/quilts for a third of the price of the cheapest ones you could get near where we live. So, SUCCESS.
Really should be trying harder to study better, but I'm only human, and not a very good one at that.
Oh, our cat got into another big fight, and had her eyelid sliced open. When we saw her it was all meaty and bloody and I assumed the eyeball had just been clawed out. Took her to the vet, and after the swelling went down she looks pretty fine, if, oh, seven thousand fourty three times more evil than ever before. She's aggressive and bad-tempered and has the physical build of a cow but we love her dearly and wish she would stop getting serious injuries from fending off other cats (we fend them off too, and have the helpful attribute of being very, very much bigger.
What else...
I want everyone to come to Japan and/or Malaysia so I'd have more friends because I made lots of friends in 2011 because who knows why and it went so well that I'd forgotten that I'm actually bad at making friends. The desperate ache to have a long hearty chat with someone can't always be filled by my little sister, because while she's easily the best match for me to talk about almost all things, she's still littler, and some things you just can't tell to littler ones.
OH. THE MAIN THING.
Scheduled for surgery on my knee, end of next month. The doctor's appointment letter is a terrifying beast, and his explanation of cutting out my knee cap, putting it back in the right place, and shaving off my tendons and cartilage and stuff till it all rests pretty is effing terrifying. University preparation course starts in April, and who knows what frame of mind I'll be in since I'll be in recovery through all of March. HOPE THE BEST FOR ME, PLEASE ;A;
Spending winter holidays at home was fantastic. Hot weather, good food, cheap movie tickets, and easily the best company ever. I'm ridiculously thankful that dad works for an airline, and booking tickets is both convenient and, more importantly, not that expensive. Though if anything I do worry it makes me even less inclined to go Out There and mingle and stuff god what is wrong with me.
So that's the past week or so. It's been going okay, but I'm starting that slow-burn panic trying to think about university applications (the processes here are both archaic and extremely hasty), because the one I'd like to go for has its deadline while I'm back home probably heavily sedated with a newly-fixed (hopefully) kneecap.
PLEASE HELP ME FIGURE THINGS OUT MY FRIENDS.
And generally, of course, take care c:
ur Holiday in Langkawi. That's my cat's head. I am very brown indeed. Don't look at the text if you have ever held love for me in your heart.