素直な気持ち伝えるのさ

I'm alive and in Paris! So far, I've been here two full days just hanging out with my sister, but my parents arrive today, and then we're going to start doing touristy things, hooray! But as a laid back kind of person, I've been really enjoying just soaking up the atmosphere and the amazing food, omg. Bread and cheese forever.

I have some photos and stuff of my trip here and the Christmas market and what have you, but for now, I just wanted to drop by and say I'm alive!

I know it's past Christmas in like every time zone by now, but Hawaii is at the end of the time zone chain, so... Merry Christmas! My parents surprised me with a stocking this morning. XD It was cute. However, despite the fact that I am indeed having a sexy summer Christmas, there's no snow. Alas! XD;

And now, I'm finally done my 14-day favourite things meme! I managed to do it once a day every single day, go me! It's been a really good experience, I think, and made me appreciate all the things in Johnny's that I love. I'd really encourage anyone who's feeling a little down to give it a try! Not only did it make me think about what I love about my favourite guys, groups, pairings, songs, and dramas, but it also gave me a great excuse to share it with the world. It's good to be positive.

I'm going to do my best to post about Hawaii after my winter funtiems in Hawaii, and next in Tokyo are done, but for now, I'm having a great time swimming, sunning, climbing volcanos, and having other adventures! I have all sorts of photos and stuff, so hopefully I'll be able to share them sooner rather than later. ^^; Also, I'm sorry I haven't commented on basically anything recently, but I've had pretty limited internet time, and am generally having a hard time keeping up with everything. I'll try to catch up and read stuff once I get back to Gunma!

And on a final exciting note, somehow, yomimashou and I hit for arena for countdown! In the B3 block, probably in the first or second row? It depends on how they set up the arena, but YAY!! I'm really excited! Unfortunately, we won't be able to see the kankeisha, but at least we know they'll show it on the monitor! XD;

Happy holidays!

Brownie points to anyone who gets the reference in the title. XD;

So, about how I've totally neglected this journal in favour of my RP journals. Hahahaha. Sorry about that...

So, I made it to school alive! I have pictures of my room to post, but I still have to upload them... there's really no good angle to take pictures of my room from, so they're all kind of weird and I mostly wanted to show off my amazing walls of gay tennis boys... XD;;; But those will be up soon, I promise.

As for classes... Eh. I'm happy with all the dance I'm doing (assuming I get into Modern Ensemble...) and I'm looking forward to attempting to set Black Sheep on some people for the Fall student dance concert. I'm supposed to be meeting with Linda and Mady in an hour to talk about the major... so wish me luck~

Japanese is really :/ I don't like the new sensei at all-- she's kind of unreasonable. She refuses to teach the grammar in class, only drills us, and if someone doesn't get something right away, she'll jump on to the next person without giving them a minute to think, which doesn't exactly give my confidence a boost (and will likely make the people who freeze up freeze up even worse next time). She's given us homework with kanji we've never learned without furigana-- that is, there's no way to look it up because we have no idea how it's pronounced. Basically, every time I think it might be okay, she goes and does something that just makes it all worse again.

I'm not particularly happy with my art class either; I'm not very good at figure drawing and I don't think I'll be able to pick it up particularly well. At the moment, I'm tentatively a printmaking concentration, so it's not really a big deal, thank goodness. Basically, I just get really frustrated. I'm going to Pearl sometime this weekend to get supplies, hopefully...

In some better news, I met a girl in Japanese who's seen parts of TeniPuri before~ I'm going to show her more tomorrow... I don't think she particularly likes slash, but I'm going to try to convince her. Maybe I can get her to watch a Myu or two... ^^; Hee. Basically, I'm really excited I found someone else who likes Prince of Tennis!

I went home yesterday to teach some classes for Scary Mary and brought a lot of stuff back with me... I have more shelves now, yay~ Maybe I should take more pictures...

Also, tonight is parade night! I'm super excited. I need to get some water balloons...

Lastly, but not leastly, I invested in some charamates! I'm so excited. I hope they ship soon~ I got Kite, Rin, and Ryoma for myself, and then gifts for chiachiaamichan and yomimashou~ I'm more excited about this than I should be XD;

[EDIT] YAY LINDA AND MADY ARE GOING TO PAY ME TO DO STUFF FOR THEM.

Also, this video is really cute. Even if I'm not so in love with 5th cast.

Scary Mary: *leans over to look at my banner* is that--

Me: ...?

Scary Mary: Oh wait, they're both guys, aren't they?

Me: ...What were you expecting?

Scary Mary: I thought the one on the right was a girl. But the one on the left looks kind of like Anna's mom.

Me: ... LOL.

...

I think I need a new LOL icon. As much as I love this one, I've had it for eons. I should find a good Prince of Tennis cap... if anyone finds a really cute picture of like, Eiji or Gakkun or someone laughing, let me know. XD:

My mom: Now that you're at college there's lots of new people for you to meet...

Me: You mean now that I'm at a school full of lesbians...

My mom: ... Yeah, actually, that is pretty much what I meant. 8D

Me: ...lulz.

wtf @ my mom XD;;;;;


I feel better now that that's off my chest, though.