Long story short, I got a call this morning from GEOS, and they decided to hire me.

YAAAAAY ^_^.

After I hung up from the call, I plonked down on the couch and started crying... Noa walked in, and asked me what was wrong, and all I could say was "They hired me... I... I WORKED SO HARD. I WORKED SO HARD." XDD, so weird. I think for a moment, all the stress that I'd acquired during the interviewing process washed out of me, and I couldn't control myself.

So anyway, yay, I now have a job lined up, where I get to go teach English in Japan! Who knew my wishes for such a job would come true... certainly not me XD.

Before I go to Japan, I'll get to get another little stamp in my passport, because I'll have to go to Vancouver, Canada for training for 4 days before I go (there's more training in Japan too, I'm told). But yeah, now I have to figure out how to get a hotel and whatever in Canada too? GEOS, why must you make me work out so much stuff before I go? *wilts* I know nothing about Canada, so that'll be another mini-adventure in this whole situation I've willingly jumped into XD.

ANYWAY, I have a job now. Woohoo! These years of college have not all been for naught, so that's exciting ^o^.

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NOTE: I'm graduating college this Saturday! Holy crap, how am I going to get everything done before this Thursday??? *explodes* Oh well, I'll get it done some how ^^;;;. FOR NOW, I want to sleep. I'll work some more on all this crap tomorrow. *flomps ovah into a dead sleep*

Tonight (7-9pm), I took part in an on campus poetry reading, that was in celebration of April being Poetry Month... it was really fun ^__^.

For some reason, even though there was a MICROPHONE (ahhh~h, the thought of my voice ringing around in the coffee shop is so weird XD), I didn't really feel nervous at all. I just... read, because I know there was no one better who could portray these words I'd written to all these people. It was a strange feeling of calmness XD. *is usually a headcase when having to read in front of groups*

There was a really good turnout, actually... at least 30 people, I'd say. Last time I participated in a poetry reading, there were MAYBE 10 people, if not less XD.

At first I read 2 poems by Frank O'Hara ("As Planned" and "Why I Am Not A Painter"), and then I read 2 of my own poems right after that ("Paper Airplanes," "Cologne," "Red," "Grandmother," and an imitation of Frank O'Hara's "Morning" that I wrote). When I was reading "Cologne" I had to stop several times, just because the crowd kept on bursting out into laughter. Especially when I mentioned Laura Bush, for some reason XD. It made me feel really good.

After the show, I got cornered by like 5 or 6 people, and was told how much they enjoyed my poetry. My friend Richard (we are bound by our mutual adoration for Frank O'Hara XD) even told me that I have a Frank O'Hara quality to some of my poems. *stomps on her ego, to keep it from puffing up too much* But it's SO NICE, just to know that this voice inside of me is saying things that people can relate to, and enjoy hearing. I could cry, just knowing that there's an audience for even my crazy ramblings ;~; <3.

It's been awhile since I've made an attempt at writing poetry earnestly, but I feel like I could try again sometime. And this time around, it'll be for myself, and not for some class. Yosh ^_^.

There's nothing like a random adventure to appease the ill-at-rest soul, I suppose...

Dr. Brown asked me to pick up his son from school today (apparently his daughter was at home sick), so after that, I went to the post office... then I wanted to go to Wal-mart in Webb City, so I went off on what I thought was the correct road, and somehow ended up in an even-more-miniscule-than-Webb-City town, called Airport Drive XD.

Whilst driving through this little town I'd never been in before, I happened across a used bookstore that I remembered a few of my Creative Writing classmates talking about: Bob's Books. I decided to drop in, and was quite shocked o.O;. There was a bajillion books crammed into that little building. Before I started looking around, though, I bumped into the owner, Bob. He was so nice-- I think I talked to him for at least half an hour XD. I spent a long time poking around the book aisles too... there were amusing little signs hanging everywhere XD. In the Westerns section, there was a sign on a sale table that said "Look at these amazing $2 books! But don't start any gunplay over the same book!" So weird XD. Also, in the parking lot (which was a big gravel lot, basically), a sign was hanging near the front door that said "NO PARKING... except for Bob." So I guess that general area was his car's spot XD. I dunno, I was just amused. He definitely created his own little world in that book shop. I'll have to go back sometime.

Ooh, and at Bob's Books, I managed to get a copy of E.M. Forester's Maurice! I was excited ^o^. For some reason, I've had trouble finding it anywhere.

After running away from the world (and into the teeny arms of Airport Drive XD) for a little while, I feel better about slaving away on papers tonight ^_^. My heart was feeling heavy at the thought of working on stuff earlier today, but now I feel like I can bear with it for now. YOSH ^o^V!

Despite all my stress (which is compounding as time goes on VERY QUICKLY), here's proof that I smiled today.


_{Just forget that in the next pic, Rebecca and me were snarling at each other XD;.}

I'm proud of that, and will continue to show my nikoniko face to the world as much as possible, despite the blargh'ness! *ganbatte's onward*

So, Saya, one of the Japanese exchange students I tutor, seemed pretty troubled during our tutoring session today, so I asked her what was going on...

Apparently she's in a relationship with an American guy here on campus, whom all the exchange students has dubbed "The Asian Killer" (but she's the only Asian girl he's dated)... and now, a lot of the exchange students are gossiping about her, and laughing at her a lot for dating the supposed "Asian Killer." She's so upset by the whole situation, that she wants to go home as soon as possible (although she has to stick it out for this last month of school).

She said she wished she could be all genki like me (XD), but I told her that since she only has a month left with these people, she should say what she wanted. She nearly collapsed in the middle of the parking lot laughing when I instructed her to puff out her chest and shout FUZAKEN DA YO! at the next person that gossiped about her XD. And then she wanted me to teach her to say something really awful in English, so I taught her how to say FUCK YOU!

Yes, I am a horrible English tutor... but we were out of the tutoring building when we were talking about all this, so I think it's okay XD. I just hope she feels better now... We have a lot in common (we mooned over the new Plastic Tree single and PV for about 10 minutes before tutoring started XD), so I hate to see her so down -.-.

Oh well, the world's evil sometimes. MAN UP, EVERYONE! *shows her guns*

I made it through another workshop this last Monday, in my Creative Writing: Fiction class. I just have to take a deep breath, and remember the purpose of the workshopping process is not to make me want to kill myself XD. I think I'll miss this class once the semester is done, actually. I've never encountered a better place for truly helpful feedback (most of the time, anyway... I can name a couple people in that class that I ignore their comments -.o; ).

Lately, when people ask me how my semester is going... I tell them my semester is like in the movies, when a plane is coming in for a landing, and the wings and wheels snap off, and the plane drags across the landing strip, leaving fire trails. WHETHER I EXPLODE AT THE END IS TBA. *shrugs* Just gotta keep chuggin', or something... Go go go! Almost over, I can maaaake it...

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I got to watch the final episode of the jdrama Life today ^__^. THAT SHOW IS SO PSYCHO. It was a great ending.

I think it'll take me awhile to forget the ultimate freakiness that is Sako-kun, too XD. I never had so much fun hating a character, I think. Just so I'm not the only one who has to have his super cool facial expressions emblazoned into my brain, here's a picture <3.


_{Sako-kun luvz u!}

If that doesn't convince everyone to go watch Life, I don't know what will XD.

So, I stole a bottle of apple juice from my parents' house when I was dog-sitting this weekend, and just a few minutes ago, me and Rebecca decided to drink some of it. So I try to open it, and can't... so I pass it to her, and she tries to open it, and can't... so I try to open it one more time, and we decide it's impossible.

Rebecca thought it would be a good idea to go find a guy to open it for us. I said I would go with her, if she would be the one to ask, while I stood in the background and laughed, AND SO, we had a deal. We went to Blaine Hall, the all-guys dorm on campus, and she plonked the thing of apple juice onto the front desk counter, and said "We need help" XDDD. Of course, the guy that helps us, is a guy I had class with last semester... he strides up all tough'ishly, and... opens the juice in about half a second -.o;;;. I KNOW THAT I'M JUST AS STRONG AS JEREMY, IF NOT STRONGER! We grabbed our apple juice and left, and when the guys at the front counter were looking at us, trying to understand what the heck just happened, Jeremy leans against the counter and says "I'll get you ladies' numbers later! *wink wink*."

So now Rebecca and I are drinking our well-deserved apple juice ^o^. It doesn't take much to create a strange adventure here at college XD;.

THE END! *goes back to doing homework*

Yesterday, mine and Noa's trip out on the town was fun ^_^. Mainly because I got out of the house XD.

We went to Sakura's, because it's the yummiest Japanese food place in the area, and then puttered around the mall... I bought nothing, and Noa just bought a t-shirt, but it was fun trying to touch everything in the mall XD.

We went a few other places after that... Borders (where we read manga and magazines without buying, like bums)... Best Buy (where we fiddled around with a new Macbook Air that was on display ^o^)... TJ Max (where many a fancy hat was tried on <3)... We even went to Goodwill, and as we were wandering around, I paused at this case that's locked up, and see a purse, which caused me to say "Hey Noa, isn't this ugly brown-printed bag one of those designer bags you love so much?" Noa immediately has a worker take out the bag so she can inspect it-- and that's how Noa got a Luis Vuitton bag (or what looked like a very legit Luis Vuitton bag) for $30 XD. I myself bought a pack of rainbow unicorn party napkins for 50-cents from the Goodwill, just because they were so fancy XD.

So we had fun, and ambled about, and generally just whiled the day away in an entertaining fashion. My ureshi-meter has been recharged now, and I feel like maybe I can survive the rest of the semester XD. Maybe!

Yay, I got a haircut today! It looks very bowl-like at the moment, but that's just because the hair lady blow-dried my hair for 10 minutes, to give it that perfect balloon shape XD. All I have to say is at least it isn't shaggy and in my eyes anymore. The color looks rather gray in this pic o.O;, but it's really washed-out black over brown at the moment (which translates to yuck in pictures, I suppose XD).

Tomorrow I'm heading out to Springfield with Noa, at 10:30am sharp. Japanese food and mall ambling are on our schedule, although we'll probably find something else to occupy ourselves with also. It's the first time I've left my parents' house since spring break started, I do believe ^^;;;. It's a bit sad how at ease I am with being cooped up this week... at long as I have my computer, and don't have to touch homework, I'm happy... (although I really need to get to crackin' on some assignments really soong ^^; ). There very may never be an entire week like this again in my life after graduation, where I just can flomp down and do whatever, so I'm just trying to have fun ^^. A fun, fairly uneventful week, it seems XD;.

I haven't posted in a few days, but once again, I have moved. Back to the college dorms. It was a fairly painful process, as I'm becoming quite the mastah of moving earthly possessions from one spot to another XD.

Only in the last few days of my Christmas break did I manage to feel semi-human, and now I have to get geared for another semester. I wasn't psyched at all, and I'm still not exactly pumped, but tomorrow looks like a breeze. My internship and Japanese class haven't been set yet, so all I have to attend tomorrow is my Creative Writing: Fiction class ^_^... at 10 o'clock, baby! Oh yeah, no 8am classes this semester-- I'm psyched about that at least XD. Plus, I'm only working at Camille's on Saturday and Sunday this week. My boss wanted to give me time to figure out my schedule/internship as best I could ^_^. *thankful for that*

Last semester was not fun, to say the least, so here's to hoping I'll get some enjoyment out of Spring '08. Since I don't have to read War and Peace this time around, it's already looking up XD. I'll do my best, yosh!

Whoo, I feel as if I've been launched into the intergalactic-psycho-dance-rave-technological FUTURE, as I now have to start writing 2008 on everything, instead of 2007. Of course, like always, I'm sure I'll spend the first few months accidentally writing the wrong year, cursing, and then erasing it before putting the actual year. Ah, tradition.

So Noa and I had fun on New Year's Eve ^_^. A shopping trip to Springfield was in order, as if we weren't both broke enough from the holiday season XD;. But we wanted to traipse the mall! And so we did. We ate yummy Japanese food at Sakura's, and then after wandering the mall like homeless vagabonds for a several hours, we went to the movie theater. We wanted to see the Golden Compass, but we missed the last showing, so we watched Juno instead (which was awesome, so it's okay ^o^). Everything in town was closed just about by that time, so we went to Cheddar's for something to eat/drink. And by drink, I mean GIGANTIC MUDSLIDES, yay ^_^. Sheesh, the drink was expensive, but I did not think it was going to be sillily gimungus XD;. After drinking and having traveled to nearly everything entertaining that Springfield beholds, we ended up going to my parents' house, and watching Japanese music videos until we passed out. By my standards, it was an supah fun day ^o^V!

Noa said, though, that whatever you do on New Year's Day will set what happens for you the whole entire year. OH GOD, I HOPE NOT. Today I worked from 9am until 7pm @_@;. I will be very unhappy if my whole year is spent slaving unhappily away. Mou. I DID make $15 in tips though, so I don't mind that standard being set XD. So many people were really generous today, so I don't mind that I worked on New Year's Day. Seriously, so many people went "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" before dunking a dollar or two in my tip cup XD;. The New Year spirit has magically turned everyone super nice, or for just one day at least.

As for New Year's resolutions... I just want to do a few abstract things.

1. Continue to be happy! Don't let life obliterate your supah genki-demeanor, like during that last semester. Yeah, it was pretty not great, but there are better things to look forward to.

2. Don't freak out (too much)! Sure, you are standing on a strange precipe of super early graduation, with the future looming a little too fiercely, but you've got ideas. Just think things through and work hard toward it, and you won't put yourself in the position of needing to curl up in the fetal position from not being ready.

That's it for now, I do believe. Being happy and trying not to freak out are things I usually try to keep at the top of my To-Do List, though XD.

I love you all <3! Here's to another of you guys being my friends(, or else <3)!

Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays everyone ^_^!

Okay, so it's technically gonna be Christmas in 51 minutes, but I'm getting kinda sleepy and might not be up then ^^;. Mah bro got an Xbox 360 plus the Halo 3 game, and I've been watching him play that for the past couple hours. It's really a strange, complex game @_@. I was playing Tetris DS that my parents gave me for awhile, but Denton kept on going "Look at this!" and "Watch this guy blow up!" so I gave that up, and went back to pondering why there were so many explosions on the TV screen ^^;.

My mom got me an amazing pair of shoes, or I like them at least XD. Somehow, I've turned into a shoe fanatic o.O;. I cannot stop myself from obtaining them lately, when I see a pair I really love ^^;. Oh well ^^;. *accepts yet another strange thing about herself*

I'll be sending out Christmas cards soon (yes, I'm late again >.>;, but they'll definitely be sent!), so watch out for those around the New Year XD;.

Anyway, I hope everyone is having fun this holiday <3. And if you're not, then manage it! Please <3.

Let's see... I haven't posted for awhile, and so much has gone on ^^;;;.

So, what was the exciting news of the now-over Fall 2007 semester? FINALS WERE CANCELED <3.

There was a rough ice storm the weekend before finals, which caused the power in almost all of Joplin to go out. Usually my college's campus would still have power, but the generator was rendered incapable because the transformer on campus asploded.

Seriously, I was working on an 8 page paper (for African-American Lit) on Sunday, and then DARKNESS... well, except for my computer, which was plugged into a battery-surge protector thing, so I was able to save my paper before shutting down the computer. We all thought the generator would kick in, but that wasn't the case, so Noa, Rebecca, Carolina and moi dragged our mattresses into the living room for a slumber party of sorts. I found my flashlight (which Rebecca tied to the light fixture, for a dome light of sorts XD), and after getting tired of squinting at our cards whilst playing a game of rummy in the super-dim light, we decided... TO OPEN THE CHIRSTMAS PRESENTS WE GOT FOR ONE ANOTHER XD. It was fun, except after opening presents, we were all constantly saying things like "OH! I love it!... what color is it? *squintsquint*" I got shiny headbands from Rebecca and manga (Invisible Boy) + a Sylvia Plath poetry book from Noa <3. Carolina loved the Build-a-Bear bunny so much that me and Rebecca went in together on to get her, that she kept on going "I love it, I love it! I'm going to sleep with it tonight!" XD.

After opening Christmas presents, our dorm RA came in and told us that finals for Monday were canceled. I was freaking out though, because I figured I still had to turn in my 8-page paper (due on Tuesday), so I went to my parents' house in Mount Vernon to finish it Monday night. Before I went to their house, though, I went to the mall to work on it with Noa's laptop. There, we overheard some of the kids from our college saying that... the whole finals week was canceled? Power was off everywhere, it was icing like crazy, so it seemed plausible. And hooray! I got an affirmation from the main dorm RA office that... finals were canceled.

Wait? Shouldn't I have been happy? What's this sense of unease that overtook me?

I was confused, as everyone was. The school system was down, which made our professors' e-mails inaccessible... tests were canceled, but what about papers? Presentations?

3 of my finals tests were canceled, but I had 3 papers and a presentation due, so I really didn't know what to do. So I just sucked it up and completed everything. I commuted back and forth between Joplin and Mount Vernon like a zillion (note: 3 or 4) times to write an 8 page paper for African-American Lit, a 5 page paper on War and Peace for Epic, and a 7 page paper/packet on Battle Royale as an epic for Epic. I was English papering like a pro (aka, I wanted to hurt myself -.o; ). AND I GOT EVERYTHING DONE! ...but I found out I didn't have to do the 8 page paper, the one I spent the most time/effort on. *collapses*

So, today, a week later after the canceled finals, I found out my grades. This vindictive semester has tried to tear me limb from limb, so... did I survive? *drumroll*

Oral Communication...............A
American Literature I............A
Intro to English Linguistics.....B
African-American Literature......B
Epic.............................B
Fitness Walking..................A

Oh, fuck yeah ^_____________^V. Take that, college. You tried to eat me, and I clobbered you with some AABBBA instead. *dances around* Oh, and for the record, I would have shot myself in the face if I managed to get anything lower than an A in Fitness walking XD;. I even got a B in Linguistics, how the heck did I manage that XD; (and NO mom, I didn't sleep with the teacher!)?

But yes, it would have been fantastic if finals got canceled, and I got to go home and try to sleep of the evils of the semester... but Jane, in all her fantastic'ness, managed to schedule it so I had no work shifts on Monday thru Friday of finals week. No, really, I was extremely happy with being able to devote myself to my finals, but then suddenly there were no finals anymore. And I had work on Saturday + Sunday. I wanted to go home, but YAY, the ice storm was supposed to hit Mount Vernon with 10 inches of ice and snow, so there really wasn't a way to go back until my shifts for the weekend were over. Also, the dorms were closed to students on Friday, so... *dundundun*

On Friday night me, Rebecca, and Noa all crashed at Jane's (my boss) house XD. Which was interesting. There was no sleep for me to be had that night though, because I managed to screw up my foot majorly by falling on the ice whilst returning text books earlier that day. Once morning hit after staring at Jane's daughter's bedroom ceiling all night, I couldn't even walk without crying. It was pretty awful. And I had work that afternoon. But I'm a genius, so upon buying a wrap-bandage thing, I was able to hobble around without sobbing. At work, Rebecca planted me in a chair in front of the register for most of the time, and yelled at me every time I tried to get up and help with anything else XD;.

The next night, we decided to go to a guy's house that works at a shoe store in the mall... AND DRINK. And omg, by that time, drinking sounded amazing XD. We were all a mess. So we went to his (Tony, I think) house, watched anime and the Tomb Raider movie, and drank up. I'd never been drunk before, but I found it to be a nice reprieve from reality just for once XD;. I've felt harassed all semester, so just sitting and giggling happily/inanely for hours on end with friends was just perfect <3. AND HELEN (disutansu), sorry for talking to you when I was like that ^^;. I don't remember if I called you or you called me, but I DO remember you saying that I sounded the same as when I wasn't drunk... heeey, I can't really take that as a compliment, can I XD;? Or maybe I was just amazing, because I remember concentrating REEEALLY hard to sound not smashed, so you wouldn't think bad of me XD;. I succeeded, yay! The next morning, the last shift at work for the weekend was completed (although it SUCKED, because once again, Camille's was the hot spot of Joplin for some reason).

Now I'm back at my parents' house for Christmas break. I'm still working at Camille's quite a bit, but the money is nice. I also get to carpool with my dad most of the time, so I don't mind it. I don't have to put half my paycheck into my gas tank, so that resolved my main stress of keeping my job over Christmas break. My foot still hurts some, but I can walk without the bandage-wrap and pain meds, which makes me happy. Half of my right foot is constantly prickly/numb, days after the last time I wore the bandage, so I wonder if I killed my foot by wearing the wrap too tight... oh well ^^;. AMPUTATION TIME <3 (I really hope not, though... if I have to, I'll write in my LJ about it XD; ).

So that's all I feel like blabbing about for now. Everything is all long and drawn out in story-telling form, but it's been days since it all happened, so I feel some distance from it all, and had to tell it like that XD;. Gomen ^^;.

Oh, and work today sucked, and work tomorrow is going to suck... WHY DOES EVERYONE HAVE TO WAIT SO LONG TO GO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, AND THEN DECIDE TO SWAMP THE MALL AND MAKE MY LIFE HELL? Just wonderin' >|.

OKAYz, TIME FOR BED NOW. *hobbles slightly to bed, where she will have good dreams of good semester grades, and bad dreams of bad Christmastime customers (boo)* Oyasumi ^__^.

So yeah, the world didn't want me to finish reading the last book for my African-American Lit. class, and for me to get the essay over it completed.

Take that world. 4am has rolled around, and I finished the book (by 2am) and just got the essay done a few minutes ago. I would try to flip off this vague sense of "world," but I do believe I am too tired to raise my finger. Damn. *needs more espresso*

My lack of sleep last night caused me to fall asleep during part of the time I sanctioned between classes and work... whoops XD;. But it was only a Tuesday night, so I should have been able to read the rest of the book during my shift easy. Maybe even start the essay. But no, work was stupidly busy for some reason. And on the one night I needed to book it out of work as soon as I could to get things done, a huge group comes up right before closing and orders a ton of things, causing me to not get done closing until half an hour later usual.

I freaked out the girl that lives across the hall though, when I was reading, which was pretty fun XD. The lights are so dim in the dorm, that I opted to coccoon myself in my blanket out in the hallway between all the apartments.

Anyway, sleep is definitely not meant for me tonight, so I guess I'll go put on my clothes for the day, and go wander around outside. Maybe drive and get breakfast to pass the time until I have to report to class in 4 hours XD;. There are so many things I have to do this week, that I wonder if I'll have time to sleep at all in the next few days. Oh well, I guess I can be assured that my body with have a fit and pass out at some point ^^;.

*wanders away into the limbo that is between dawn and 8am*

Man, it doesn't matter what I watch/read/do lately-- EVERYTHING IS TRYING TO TURN ME CLINICALLY DEPRESSED. I swear, what the hell.

Right now I have to read Beloved for my African-American Lit class, which has on many occasions alluded to cow rape. One of the slave guys in the book lusted after a slave girl for years, and he raped cows to qualm this??? And THEN he finally sleeps with her after 20 freaking years, and he has AN EPIPHANY. He thinks, "Ya know? All those years of lusting and raping cows because I wanted to have sex with her... it wasn't really worth it. It wasn't that good." *STABS THE PSYCHO-BOOK IN A PSYCHOTIC MANNER*

So then I watch an episode of Akihabara@deep, which usually cheers me up, and it just so happens I randomly choose the crazy evil "Bado Raku!" episode, where people OD on drugs and get stuffed in suitcases whilst still foaming at the mouth, and the like.

And then, at work, I get stalked'ish? By a really scary creepy guy? He kept on walking up and having many mini-annoying-conversations with me, trying to get me to give him free food, and then when he wasn't actually talking to me over the counter, he was nearby and glancing at the kiosk a lot. Right at the end of the night too, it appeared he got some money, and ordered something, which was okay... but it was not okay that when I took the trash out at the end of the night, that he was standing near my car in the parking lot. And then when I was coming back in from throwing trash in the dumpster, he was suddenly by the doorway and was watching me. When I walked back out to finally go home, as soon as I thought I was home free, as he appeared to be gone, I heard a "Hey!" right behind me, and he was on a bench about 3 feet away from me. Mou. I might be paranoid, but he had a strangecreepy aura. I may very well freak-out if I see him too much more around the mall -.o;.

SO THEN, after doing some homework after work, I decide to watch the drama Tomo Yanagishita (Pixie/Jet Monster Tenimyu Kaidoh!) is in, Ren ai Shindan, but that totally turned out to be a traumatizing event. Seriously? Can't ANYONE BE HAPPY IN THESE FREAKING SHOWS? Must it always be rapebreakingstuffmurderangstangstangst? I should've known, but I had hope and needed cheering up. So much for that ^^;... I will say it was not a bad drama, though... Okay, actually it was bad, but in the normal OMG-AWKWARD way XDD. Okay, so maybe it did cheer me up a tad XD;... *loved all the random scenes of ANGRY POTTERY BREAKING!* I'm getting happier thinking of all the hilarious'ish-crazy moments, but yeah, watching it straight through WAS A REAL DOWNER.

I'm just gonna stop typing, because it is currently 2:38am, and who knows what jumbled mess is coming out. But I'm afraid to sleep, because I'm pretty sure if I do, I'm going to have cowrapefoamingdrugODcreepystalkermorerapemurderangstangst dreams. And that just doesn't sound appealing to me.

Oh well. Hopefully tomorrow is less trauma to my brain ^^! *tries to occupy self until the day begins*

So yes, life has definitely been interesting lately... but all this interesting'ness has left me exhausted, with no time to post about the said interesting'ness. And nothing in life truly happens until you post about it in LJ, so here we go XD;.

So several days ago, I posted amazing news that I was going to graduate in 2 semesters. I decided to e-mail my adviser one more time though, before I signed up for classes I didn't need to fill up the 12-hour full time student status... and the next morning on Nov. 13th I got this back:

Emily,
I didn't ruin your life! The catolog is incorrect, the rainbow is correct and if you take an internship with Dr. Brown this spring you should be able to graduate.
Dr. McSpadden

Okay, I don't know why she said "the rainbow is correct" (XD;?), but I zoomed to her office 5 minutes after receiving that message (around 7:30am), and yeah, now I'm graduating after ONE semester.

Holycrapholycrapholycrap. I'm still completely shocked. My future has jumped out of a nearby bush and sucker punched me in the face... IT'S LOOOOOMING, looming I say! But I'll be ready. Because I've got to be.

Omg. I could be back in Japan in 2008. My heart is sprouting little wings, that are tickling my lungs with their feathery fluttery'ness. Miaownya~nya =^o^=... *floats away, thinking about it once again*

Today, upon meeting with my adviser, Dr. McSpadden... I found out that in 2 more semesters, I'm graduating.

There is an end in sight to this whole experience... and I really think I'm ready to go on with what's next after this.

I feel like someone severed the chain to that 10-ton weight I've been dragging around all semester, and I feel so light that my feet are barely touching the ground. Next December, I'll be graduating. *is completely in shock*

Of course, there's still another year's worth of class-stress and such awaiting for me, NOT TO MENTION this semester, which is currently sucking the life out of me... but nothing can beat this feeling of light-hearted happiness I haven't felt in so long ^___^.

I have 4 more classes I have to take (or rather, 3 classes and an internship)... 2 of them I'm taking this semester, and 1 + the internship I'm taking the next Fall 09 semester... but I need 12 hours per semester to keep my academic scholarship + life/car insurance stuff... so I get to pick 6 credits of classes I want to take next semester... just because I want to take them o.O;;;??? I've never done that before! Such a strange concept XD;. I'll probably use this opportunity to take an independent Japanese class, and crack down on learning my kanji or something ^_^.

Anyway, yes, I won't be happy like this in a few days, once the weight of the semester catches back up with me, but for now I have starry eyes toward the future *-* <3. But why does standing at the end of the college experience feel like teetering at the edge of a dark, scary cliff? I feel unsure right now, but glad anyway ^_^. *IS A HUmAN w/ COMPLX EMOTIUNZ, OmG, MAke iT STOPORGoORSomETHInG*

I put my hair through one last dying trauma for awhile (I've dyed it neon red twice since school started, BAD M!), and had Noa dye it black today. Plus I got all my hair cut pretty short yesterday, so I'm a completely new M at the moment XD;. Yay for change! I dunno if my hair looks GOOD, per say, but I always like it when it's black ^o^.

I went to the International Club Halloween Dance for awhile tonight... it was pretty fun. I got to take my fairy wings I bought for a test drive, and they grooved pretty well. I only stayed at the dance for about an hour and a half though, since I have so much homework to do. While I was there though, Whitney forced me to dance and dance and dance... he's so much fun XD;. I haven't danced much since high school, so I was pretty horrible, but every time I stopped dancing and just stood there, he started dancing dirtily with my prone body. That would usually start me shuffling my feet badly with the music once again, and keep me motivated to keep on dancing in my dorky way XD;.

Note: Noa and Rebecca just got back from the dance, and told me a girl dressed up as a Playboy bunny accidentally caught her fluffy bunny ears on fire, when she was dancing too close to a candle XD;. I kinda wished I could've seen that, but I can get a pretty good visual image of that happening anyway, so it's okay XD;.

OKAYZ, now back to trying to hash out part of one of my papers due on Tuesday next week. *woes*

Today was good and bad... I feel pretty horrid right now, but remembering the happy things make me feel better...

Good! -- I did well on my 20 minute presentation in African-American Literature, that I've been stressing out about since the beginning of the semester.

Bad! -- I got about 3 hours of sleep the night before, from working on said project.

Good! -- I got a 90% (an A, whoo!) on my American Lit. midterm, that I had assumed I'd probably not done so hot on.

Bad! -- I forgot to do the reading for today in American Lit., and probably failed the quiz on it.

Good! -- B.H. Fairchild, a really awesome poet came to my college today. I bought one of his books from Dr. Kumbier, and got Fairchild to sign it for me, yaaay ^__^. *uber excited, like the poetry dork she is* I could not go to his poetry reading at 7pm tonight, because of work, but one of the English professors let me sit in on her class at 1pm, that was having a Q&A session with him ^_^. He even read a few poems, since not all of us could be there at the 7pm reading.

Bad! -- I really, really would've liked to have gone to the poetry reading, boo -.o;.

Good! -- I made $7 in tips at work tonight!

Bad! -- Work tonight REALLY, REALLY SUCKED. Like, REALLY. Macy's was having some retarded sale, so about a zillion people came by Camille's, and was making large-quantitied demands of me. Soooo many rushes... and a blender burnt out, so I was reduced to one blender... and I didn't get closed until 9:20pm, because I couldn't even start closing until 8:30pm tonight (an hour and a half later than when I usually start closing)... and everything kept on running out... *PULLS HAIR*

Good! -- I'm about to take the appropriate dosage of Tylenol PM (2 pills!), and hopefully be out until I have to wake up at 7am tomorrow. I get to go home and let my parents fawn upon me for a little while tomorrow, and part of the day Saturday too, so that'll be nice ^^.

OKAYZ, that's enough of that! Crazy day. OYASUMI <3! *collapses to bed after Tylenol PM'ing it up*

My major has officially been changed. I was so incredibly miserable being in Graphic Art -.-. Why did the teachers have to be such assholes? Not fair. But I am now a Creative Writing major, and the teachers actually care o.o. I don't feel like I'm gonna fall through the cracks like I did in the art department. I was wandering around outside after I got my schedule set, and was dancing at random intervals. It was fun ^^. So hopefully my angst-level shall be brought down significantly ^^;. I'm sure everyone was getting tired of my bitching and moaning-- I know I was getting sick of it.