shit's kinda difficult lately, school and work piled together have been making it really difficult for me to finish planning my trip, but i figure it's ok. the semester's gonna be over in a few weeks and i'll be free for the good part of 9 months.
japanese 211 is really hard, i don't really know how to describe it other than FUCKIN DIFFICULT because it's mostly contextual, embedding things in sentences, suggesting things, moving into casual speech and presuppositions, a lot of kanji that i have the upper had on because i took kanji class last semester, and shit like that. my literature isn't that difficult, i have to do a presentation on tale of genji and joyce's dubliners. my literature teacher is from greece and likes me, i think, she always compliments me on my hair and calls me "the blue sailor moon" after one of my classmates pointed out my pigtails (on like the singular day i wore them??) her father died recently and i feel really bad for her.
work is entertaining but the workload is so much more now that my dad isn't there. i miss him a lot, he might be moving to utah to live with his girlfriend (who is 2 years older than i am) and work freelance at another club. he says he's been good about getting clean and there isn't much to get in trouble with in st. george. my mom insists that there are still drugs in utah, but i think he's doing well. i'd rather not see him and him be healthy than he move back here and lapse back into old habits.
today at work i made 50 buttons, printed 7 posters, made 9 member networks spots, started an infographic, started some picture edits, looked over potential magazine cover pictures with everyone else, started a new marquee, and started finalizing my comics. they want me to draw some cartoons to put in the upcoming magazine, which i think is cool. now everyone gets to see my shit drawings.
last weekend we went to california to watch james' adopted younger brother's football game, and they slaughtered the opposition 41-6. the other team scored their singular touchdown in the final seconds of the game. we stayed in whittier, and i got to see the space shuttle endeavor. i cried a little. i love space.
i tried nanowrimo again and i had some pretty decent shit to write about, two hetalia prompts that have been eating at my head, but i got nowhere as usual because november is so damn busy. i still have time if i really pressed to finish, but i have other mandatory things to do.
today i also came across some neat homeless people, one guy who was cooking something in a garbage can, another who had set up a full bed- sheets, comforter, pillows and all, in the empty lot near where i work. he didn't have much else, but he seemed to be having a nice nap in his nice bed. i was panhandled by a guy in the back parking lot near albertsons and when i handed him a dollar, he smiled and loudly exclaimed "thanks, you little alien." we also found some graffiti on the underside of the charleston freeway overpass that read "RIP. harry the cockroach died here. he was a good bug who loved god."
once i have my passport set in stone, i have to send my finalizing application to the school i'll be attending in japan. i'll be in school for 10 weeks and in japan for just under 12 weeks total. i might be hopping around houses because it seems like borderless house doesn't open up their rooms very often. it's ok, i don't mind renting rooms from people, it seems like more fun that way. i'm really sad because i'll be getting rid of my green hair in march, and going back to having black hair to avoid being a spectacle in japan. i don't mind people staring at me, but i've been told that if you stick out as a tourist you're more likely to be stolen from or taken advantage of by stores that know you're a foreigner.
bri and i have started seriously storyboarding our endless forest roleplay after we saw thor and i explained to her that since we had stopped working on it, i had still be plotting and creating things for it. it had something to do with asgardians being immortal and how long the deer lived or something. i had this gigantic theory on how deer in tef have no gender and reproduce asexually, through cryptic mythological ways, like testicles being thrown into the ocean or a baby being pulled out of the eye or someone. also along with that was my gigantic thing with other animal domains (or whatever) also being in the endless forest but having lost their forest magic or some shit. it's kind of transformed into this watership down-ey gruesome, dark story, with her deer nevermore and it's baby (that dies) and bishop's brother, rook, having to kill this cougar, and diomedes being horrifically tortured by humans, the list can go on. it's grossish. i decided eudaemonia will have a sister, iphigenia, and that eikþyrnir will live in a constant state of feherlofia, some kind of trippy shit going on in their head. i also decided on a name for knight and the blue's satanic baby thing- judecca. i was inspired by pictures of baby cows whose heads were split in half, giving them two separate faces, to create enoki, who has two faces, three ears, four eyes, and one brain, causing the two faces to speak in tandem, but at different pitches.
i've also been playing a lot of horse games, because megu shuts down forever on the 28th and i need something to fill that hole. i have a pony named raivis galante.
ok bye
