okay... i know i know. its been forever and a day since i last xangad. gee... i dont even know if people still read this anyway. so last time was when i arrived in japan and lo and behold... its been 4 months already. damm. time really does fly. so... i have been updating my facebook with pictures... so if you want to know what ive been doing - get on that! =) ill be posting pictures up soon from the past two weekends cause i spent them in kyoto in a machiya [which is a traditional japanese house restored right smack in the middle of kyoto] and i went to hiroshima the next weekend.

okay - a little blurp about hiroshima. seriously. if any of you guys go to japan - it is a must see. the peace museum is a total wake up call. i was half delirious with a cold i caught on the way there but even in my half deliriousness... it was awesome. people dont realize that the a-bombs only happened about 60 years ago... there are still some people alive telling their stories. gah... cant explain it in words but ill gladly show you if you ever come to japan!

also, miyajima is a super cool place. i mean... isn't it too cool that you can walk up to the torrii gate when the tide is low and touch it and then a few hours later, you cant cause the freaking ocean is surrounding it. look it up in wikipedia and youll know what im talking about. pictures will be uploaded in facebook soon. =)

okay... besides the travelling stories. im loving life in japan. my school is cool. my JTEs - the japanese teachers of english - that i work with are all awesome. my kids are low level in english so im not too stressed about making lesson plans. the kids are awesome... some of them are too cute. and the bad ass ones that think theyre bad asses are nothing compared to the real bad asses in america. haha. im pretty sure that ill be staying a second year. =P

my japanese, i think, is neither going up or down. im suppose to take the JLPT this dec 7th and i swear i havent studied as much as im suppose to. oh well. ill try again next year. haha. but ganbarimasu! thats all for now. ill try to post pictures up but seriously... its just easier on facebook. haha.

the countdown begins - 12 days.

gah. i need to get some grown up clothes. new york and company... here i come! and target too! haha. man have you guys noticed how target is getting more cool clothes? or am i just getting older and cheaper?

so i was bored today. a long lazy sunday. just how i like it. so i decided to explore the garage. why you ask? i dunno... but i knew that my dad had "put away" some of my college things in the garage. even tho, when i moved back - all my things were organized in closed bins - he just had to take everything out and start packing it within hidden corners of the garage.

so i found some interesting things: old art display cases that i used for a project, a silver ikea bin filled with cd cases, tapes, old cell phone covers, random shit like that.

but the things i found that made me smile in glee were my old posters. over the years in college... people have given me posters or wall scrolls that never got the chance to grace my wall. so i looked thru them. lo and behold i found a prince of tennis scroll, a vin deisel poster from man apart, orlando bloom posters [one when he was legolas and one from pirates. im pretty sure that i have baucas to thank for all these wonderful posters. i couldnt let it rot in the garage so i brought them to my room to rot in the corner by my desk. haha... ok ok. maybe ill start to finally put them up on my wall.

another thing i found was a poster. it read.

"give them the mitzi face :P" - anon. sr.

it wasnt in my handwriting so i wondered who made it? then i realized it was made for the halls in the bren for PCN. a random poster made by the pubs who i believe were karla and alfredo back in that time. it made me smile. real big. flashbacks of senior suite immediately flickered thru my memory. the question is... who gave them this quote? if you ask me. it sounds like the words from jaz's mouth. it totally sounds like something she would say. either her or russ. but i could be wrong. so my sexy seniors from the past. if you happen to recall saying these words - please let me know who you are. because i remember laughing when i saw it on the halls and i laughed once again when i saw it in my garage.

p.s. yesterday. i forgot i was 24 years old. i seriously thought i was 23. it took my brother to convince me that i was 24. damm. that's a sign of oldness if i ever did need one. what happened to my 23rd year? i swear i dont remember it. haha. oh wait... i was in china. i think if we have birthdays outside of america... it shouldnt count. damm that means im turning 25 this year. aigoooooooooo.