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I've started a Japanese blog here, to keep up my practicing now that I'm out of school. I guess you guys can comment if you can talk the talk, but my Japanese teacher may end up reading it occasionally, so don't be QUITE as promiscuously wacky as you usually are. Save that for this journal <3

Of course, I'd welcome any corrections and stuff like that, it's the whole point. I'd consider doing a Spanish one too, but I probably have enough people around to practice that with already!

In less productive news, my DS Lite which mysteriously half-died earlier this year has now risen to life again inexplicably. I'm not really complaining, but it's just kind of weird. I'm still going to use my DSi for almost everything else, but now I can finally get back into Knights in the Nightmare, since I want to recruit Pamela using the GBA connectivity bonus.

P.S. Snow, you were such a pussy yesterday. 5 inches!? I think I know the kind of disappointment only a woman could understand now.

P.P.S. I played Parasite Eve randomly yesterday/today. I know it's impractical but dammit Aya get back in that dress and heels for the rest of the game.

I don't know if I should feel ashamed that I'm excited over my 1 TB external hard drive that came in the mail yesterday. I'm practically treating it as a toy, even though all I'm using it for is to... back stuff up. Actually, no, this must be completely normal behavior. A thousand gigabytes has to translate into fun at some point, statistically speaking.

Anyway, school starts again next week, I'm hoping it's my last semester. I've been trying to keep up with both languages so I'm not terribly rusty... on my final I actually forgot how to write the katakana "テ" for SOME GODAWFUL REASON, it was so completely random. Yeah, sure, I can discuss Hiroshima memorial sites no problem but write "Television" in Japanese? NOPE :D (I managed to write about something else so it was no big deal, but still...)

Gaming-wise, I finished my "perfect enough" save file on P3 FES: The Journey, and I'm making short work of The Answer as well. I'll be playing P4 before too long! Maybe.

I'm actually thinking of writing up a self-help "how to finish your gaming backlog" guide, because I've been doing a pretty good job of it lately, plus I know many people out there with this shameful problem.

Well, tonight's date night, I suppose I should get around to that eventually... *sigh* the life of an ace gamer such as myself is a hard one, but someone's got to do it. *wears sunglasses at night*

Textbooks

A QUE SI! -WORKBOOK
Quantity: 1
Total Price: $51.85
Option Chosen: Used

A QUE SI!
Quantity: 1
Total Price: $87.15
Option Chosen: Used

APROXIMACIONES AL ESTUDIO DE LA LITERATURA HISPANICA
Quantity: 1
Total Price: $78.15
Option Chosen: Used

Total : $217.15

;_;

Dammit people, that's my video game money. At least I get to re-use my Japanese textbook from last semester. We'll probably open that workbook 3 times the whole class, too.

Still, I can't wait to get back to school, sadly enough. What can I say, when you're at the point in time when you can take the classes you're actually interested in, school takes on a whole new meaning.

.. then again, if I could just play Persona 3 and go to school in the game instead, that'd be pretty cool too.

And it was freezing and it ended up snowing! At least I made it home in one piece. I keep forgetting to wear my scarf though, dammit.

So now we're finally getting into Katakana in Japanese this semester. Which is good because now I can actually write my name, among other things. Plus a lot of video game character names are in Katakana so it helps me when I search Japanese sites.

No completely annoying Otaku in my class, so far as I can tell. They're mostly weeded out the first semester when they realize the class doesn't involve discussing Naruto episodes. BELIEVE IT.

(It's not that I have any problem with someone choosing to pursue an education in something because of a hobby, in fact I think it's great that a person would be motivated to better themselves from something like that. Heck, I'm studying it partly because of my love of Japanese video games, plus I like some animes and Japanese music. But when the walking talking stereotype of an Otaku girl sits down in your class and immediately confesses that they're studying Japanese because they think Inuyasha is cool, it makes me want to distance myself from that kind of person. Literally, because they don't shower. How can you love kawaii neko anime bishies but not deodorant? Do you think magical girls don't use deodorant? Is there not any room in your Naruto bag for makeup? You and the guy with a ponytail who sits behind you look almost identical, and he is not the one at fault here. Oh god, I will not miss you at all, Inuyasha girl.)

My Spanish class is pretty cool too because I have a lot of the same classmates as last semester, but OH GOD IT'S SO LONG. From 5:15 to 8 PM. We get a 15 minute break, but still. I'm sure I'll get used to it as the semester goes on. I learned a new word today, at least. Apparently babysitters are called canguros (kangaroos) in some Spanish-speaking countries. Get it, the pouch? I found that interesting.

charmwitch, do you call buses guagua down there? My teacher mentioned Puerto Rico was one area that does. I know in some other countries guagua = baby, and we read this little comic where some guys were confused as to why they would wait at a bus stop for a baby xD

On Tuesday, for my oral final in Japanese (krile always giggles whenever I mention oral quizzes, by the way), I get to talk with my teacher for 10 minutes straight. Answering questions, all in Japanese. Needless to say, I'm planning on studying quite a bit for it from now until then. Well, besides writing this post, and various other things, but you get my point. I'm not too nervous about it but I just want to make sure I can do it in my sleep before I go in there on Tuesday.

Earlier this week we went in to get our phones upgraded (because we were due for one, I had my previous phone for about 2 years), and now I have a RAZR instead of.. the random other phone I had before. I'm not a huge cell phone person, I don't really care to have a fancy one with lots of capabilities, but at least this phone looks pretty cool. Plus it's very light and thin, so when I slip it into my pocket it's not bulky or in the way.

Unfortunately, Verizon has seen fit to disable one of the primary reason why I would choose that phone, namely being able to transfer files over via Bluetooth. You know, so I can actually put wallpapers and ringtones on there that I would like as opposed to the ones they have for sale via their own little service. My options are basically to either research trying to hax into this phone myself or going back to the Verizon store and making them enable that feature.

Anyway, I just thought I would put the word out about that in case anyone with Verizon might be interested in a RAZR. It's only Verizon themselves doing it, none of the other providers disable the Bluetooth file transfer. I want my free obscure video game backgrounds and ringtones, dammit.

Additionally, I've been playing quite a bit of .hack.//G.U. now that Valkyrie Profile 2 has been beaten. I didn't play any of the previous .hack games, and from what I understand, GU is not much different from them, which caused some people to rate it low. Of course, that doesn't affect me, so I'm free to enjoy it on its own.

And it is pretty darn enjoyable. I would take this kind of game over a real MMORPG anyday. (Wow! It didn't take me a whole hour and a half to gain one level! No monthly fee! No assholish players to deal with! No lag! NO LEVEL DOWN!!!) ... as you can tell I'm not a huge fan of them.

Haseo is an amusing main character, or rather, Haseo being tortured by every single other character he meets is amusing to no end. The battle system is fun and the various sidequests aren't completely annoying like a lot of them have been in RPGs lately.

There's also something weird and amusing about "browsing internet forums" and "checking your email" in a game. And sending overly kawaii/happy greeting cards that Haseo would never in a million years send to other characters.

I've still only seen one episode of the anime, although I'll probably watch it all since I'm playing the game.

Now, I must study. So very, very much.

( Interests Collage )


In other news I had my first classes today. Spanish seems pretty easy, and Japanese was very amusing. Of course there were a bunch of people taking the class only cuz they like anime (I'm not too much better, but anyway~) and we learned about desudesudesudesudesudesudesu. It was fun.