I know it is kind of early (at least its Christmas Eve Day damn it), but i am thinking of this now so...Happy Christmas!!

Oh boredom...

What Kristi Means

You are a seeker of knowledge, and you have learned many things in your life. You are also a keeper of knowledge - meaning you don't spill secrets or spread gossip. People sometimes think you're snobby or aloof, but you're just too deep in thought to pay attention to them. You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something. You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense. You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are the total package - suave, sexy, smart, and strong. You have the whole world under your spell, and you can influence almost everyone you know. You don't always resist your urges to crush the weak. Just remember, they don't have as much going for them as you do. You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life. You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home. You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble.

and the comment of the week award goes to Liz: "your trip sounds AMAZING! i'm glad no one stole your liver down in Thailand. that would have sucked. XD" Thanks love!

I would also like to say that sleet sucks. It needs to either be rain or snow. Not both. However, my new/rebuilt ipod rocks.

That is all.

Thanks Lisa!! I love you!

So my parents officially own that house they wanted in Colorado. It is in Lafayette in the Anthem Ranch subdivision. By the time that I return in August, they will have moved.

So can anyone think of any Christmas games that they have played? That do NOT involve alcohol? I have to think of some for my ESS and no one believes me when i say that Christmas isnt really a game holiday...its for eating and singing and drinking and what not...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7124156.stm

go chimps!

I had no classes today. From 8:15-4:40 i have been at my desk trying to look busy without being yelled at for surfing the web. I have now had the following song in my head for the last 3 hours:

i dont care if i go crazy 1 2 3 4 5 6 switch, crazy go I if care dont I 6 5 4 3 2 1 switch
repeate

::sob::

So i guess insomnia is good for something.

Instead of work today we had to go to this retarded ALT meeting in Tsu. Cat has her car now so I hitched a ride with her and Kara and Lauren. We had to travel 3 hours north and then 3 hours back for a 1 hour meeting. They so could have e-mailed us everything. I am also moderating one of the discussion panels at the big mid-year conference in January, which makes sense since I am, of course, the worlds best public speaker. Woohoo.

Anyway, after the meeting was fun. We went shopping I bought this nice big fuzzy blanket. It is cotton and fleece and sorta feels like a sheepskin without a sheep having to die for me to have it. Yay. The other "flavors" (i love you Japanese-English) were rabbit and racoon. Who, besides me apparently, wouldnt want a fake racoon blanket? I also went to Starbucks and an international foods store. The yumminess is totatly worth the obscene prices.


There is a piccy of Ali and I from last weekend. It was a lot of fun. Nagoya isnt really a "tourist city". However, we saw a few cool things and got some shopping done.

ugh. Went to Osaka this weekend. Really like it. It may be my fav. city in Japan.

Now am sick...bah.

Holy crap, why can I not have a freakin normal sleep pattern in this stupid country?! Even after jet-lag dissapeared, I couldnt sleep when I was supposed to. The fact that I actually have a regular job with normal, non movie theater hours, doesnt help. Then, the past couple of days, all that I really want to do is sleep. I cant stop yawning now and its only 8:15 and I just had a couple cups of bitter annoying Japanese coffee. grrr...

So Japan doesnt do daylight savings. I am now officially another hour ahead of all you crazy kids.

I just had a major heart attack/stupid gaijin moment. So I am just chilling under my kotatsu table(winter finally set in) workin on my NaNoWriMo story when there is a loud POP and the electricity is gone. So i go through the usual motions:

1) Look out the window. Yep, the other houses on my street have lights on.

2) Go out to the balcony to check the other apartmetns in my building. Yup, they are good too.

3) Conclude that either the direct withdrawl I have set up to pay my electricity didnt work or I must have blown a fuse. Since it is 10:30 pm here and that is a sort of awkward time for the power company to kill my electricity, I go with the second choice. ALso, I am using the kotatsu, the lights in my living room and kitchen, and had just turned the space heater on in my bed room to get it prepped for sleep. Tonight was the first time that I tried that combination so it could have done it.

4) Bust out the flash light and go to find the fuse box.

5) Where the fuck is the fuse box?! I go through my apartment completely (not hard...this is Japan...it would rank in the "smaller than a bread box" category). I am searching for anything resembling the gray, inset things that I am used to at home. Nothing. It is getting later and later.

6) Call my supervisor. She is out of town so she sends the department head over, who gets the land lord over. They walk in and it turns out the thing above my door that looks like an overly large doorbel aparatus is the fuse box. There is only one fuse for the apartment and its activation is a button and not like an American fuse switch at all. The land lord pulls the switch and Eureka, we have power.

7) Bow mumbling incoherent "hounto ni gomen nasai...arigatou gozaimashita...tasukata...." and feel really, really stupid.

So who wants to see the data behind this guy’s theory? I do…while he may have a point about certain things…other bits sort of smack of eugenics and other such lovely things.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6057734.stm

Oh Pushing Daisies, just when i think u can't get any better, you have Dash Mihok in as a guest star. Everyone knows that he's got the best moniker around.

And I just signed up for NaNoWriMo. Yes...we shall see how this goes...

Today was a really great day. Woke up, had some coffee, chatted with Liz, and then my parents. After a shower, I hoped a train south to Shingu. Catherine met me on the train. We wandered about the city (a REAL city!!) for a bit and then found a bus to take us to the "super center". There we played in Uniqlo and Okuwa and considered seeing a movie! There is a 4 screen theater there...aparently the only one in southern Mie or Wakayama prefectures.

We had dinner and coffe and then went took a local train to the main station. We encountered some creep who follows Cat around Kumano who has a disturbing obsession with skirts, ditched him, ran for our connecting train and returned home.

I practiced my flute for a bit. I know why I stopped playing in high school...I was sick of the competitive people and the stupid band drama. However, I cant imagine why it took me so long to take it up again. I will never be amazingly good, but I think its fun and relaxing. Of course, it may have been a better idea to commit to either the Japanese flute for Taiko or the western flute for my Friday school's brass band club and not both. Oh well. Yay for hobbies!

wah. I found my first mukade in my kitchen. He was just a baby (read *only* 2 inches long) so i trapped him in a glass and threw him over the balcony. Of course, i left the glass and the paper i used to cover it outside, and am now too chicken to bring them in. Seriously...stupid freakin monster bugs. x.x now i feel sickly.

Lisa! I love you! ^.^ the cat towel rules. It is currently hangin from the fridge. And its never too early for spanish cat christmas cards!