It's already June, and if time insists on getting faster and faster and faster death is probably going to come real quick (hello everybody, long time no see).

( Down the watership )

But we gotta make little steps to improve, yeah. Got a couple other things I wanna get off my chest, but for now this has been your short guide to how the school year has been going. Hope everyone's doing okay!

Heeeeeeey. Sorry for the remarkably long delay, I've been remarkably busy. Just to start things off, if you were at any point worried about how things were going for me re: getting into university and stuff, your worry is no longer necessary! I'll give you brand new worries! For now, I'm about 2, 3 weeks into being a university student (again) and it's just been such a bizarre journey that I spend a worrying amount of time staring at the ceiling and going this cannot be real life.

It is, of course.
( pulling teeth from angry exlusionist rebels )

WAY LONG entry is way long. In summary, Japan's weird and mystical for reasons you probably wouldn't have expected at first, but I'm doing okay and I fully intend to carry on doing okay. Lord knows, maybe this time next year I can say I've upgraded to doing great. Hope everyone's been well, yeah! And if you haven't yet, get into Haikyuu!! because no one should cry over volleyball all by themselves wheeeee.

Wheeeeeee.

hahaha it's been a while hasn't it just.

I'm at the moment worrying over university selection. Getting into uni here for an undergraduate degree, it's an esoteric, mysterious process that involves approx. 700 times more paperwork than necessary. Things need translatin', they need to know how you did in highschool even if you've got an impressive track record of post-highschool but never quite past Uni like I do. The radioactive water spillage in Fukushima is getting worse, and while my first thought is for the poor depleted fish stocks and unsuspecting birds

( If there was a degree in angst I'd be accelerating towards a Ph. D. already. )
The joke's on me, because I've got big feet. Oh, wait. MY LIFE IS A JOKE.

In other news, I got to go to Disney Sea when my brother came to visit, and it's a marvelous place. And I've also finally gotten around to really, hideously enjoying karaoke. Turns it out it's got less to do with the karaoke room, and more to do with how much your musical tastes and lack of shame overlap with others. Also, the every marvelousann_fish will be coming to Japan for a volunteering stint several months long, so I really really reckon I'll get to meet her! Y'know, I think my ratio of online friends I've actually gotten! the pleasure! to meet! is pretty damn good for someone not from the states meeting others from the states. Cheers, you beautiful bastards.

God, I've forgotten how downright cathartic verbal vomiting out a diary could be. Could this be the revival of a beautiful habit?!?!?1 Who the hell knows. Look at EF. Revivals are hard to plan!

Hope everyone's doing really well! c:

Edit:
Also holy crap I forgot to mention, that after being put on the waiting list forever, Nagoya turned me down. Justifiably, because I was terrible at the interview. What I find slightly less justifiable was how long it took, for them to say thanks ma'am but no thanks.

Looks 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.

( I want to dance without 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.

Man, life just never fails to get weirder. There was less weird crap in the first fifteen years of my life than there've been in the past five. I remember when I was a kid, I thought that everyone was pretty much exactly the same in the head, it's just the bodies that were different. 

But man. People are damned crazy, self included.


( I get so excited when I'm thinking up Subject Names. )


It's been getting real cold. My friend's mom makes amazing pumpkin-soup broth and noodles. I saw a pony yesterday. And I really should get around to making it official that I've moved 8D Because my student card still says I live in my old place. There are teachers I hope I can be FOREVER BEST BUDS WITH. Probably another update WITH PICTURES over the weekend. There's a big important exam on Saturday, so I've got the weekend off work c: Wanna log, babe, wanna log so hard all the way all the night through!

OH and and and I'm about halfway through my first legitimate book that's legitimately written wholly in Japanese. Yeah, it's short, but it's gonna be a hell of an accomplishment (when I get to it) so I'm cheering myself on. I hope everyone's doing okaaaaaaaay in these bleak bleak days! 

Let's head back in time, you and me and all the pictures not posted and all the stuff not recorded.

WHaoaa I sound different when I type in bold. Anyways, babes! It'll be October in no time at all, which means I've finished the first semester of my Japanese language course c: Another three, and I'll be in Uni (again). Time sure is moving fast, and I really haven't been doing due diligence in carefully keeping track of my life. 


( Sing us a song you're a maron-bear )

We've got one week off now, which will be busy since I have to move out and run errands and prepare for the placement test on Friday. Me and my sister have applied for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, level 2 (which personally speaking is I think too high of a level for me, but I'm trying anyways) in December. Can't really wrap my head around being 21 in November. Don't really remember becoming 20, either. Why did the inevitability of death seem to multiply a thousandfold between being 19 and 20?!

There's a really great family-style Italian restaurant not to far from my current place. Their water chestnut cake is beyond delicious. And we got coupons for half-price desserts because I've got sharp eyes and occasionally excellent luck c: It's closing in on the end of the year, and I hope everyone's doing okay! >W<

Serves me right if you ladies have broken up with me altogether now. I don't think I've ever gone so long without posting before, ever; it's just that there's always so much I want to say and so few ways I reckon I can do it without coming off sounding like a prick that I freak out and then just don't right.

Also, LJ hates me. The amount of spam and just general unreliable-ness of LJ means that I've started this account on DW (I wanted to change my name to whaleofatime, but I like being called Mu and less like being called a whale).

( Etsy and antsy. )

At the end of the day, I'm doing okay. Lots of things could be much, much worse, you know? I've actually ballsed up enough to tell most people about what happened, and the bitter taste of disappointment is much, much milder now. And because I feel guilty but don't have anything better to offer, here's an incomplete WALL OF TEXT lightly flavoured with Lavi, Kanda, and zombies. Heeeey guuuuuuys <3