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So I’m glad to report I’ve been happily busy so far here at school. I have people to hang out with and my assignments have been fine–overall, things have been good.

Yesterday was particularly full. I found Britni, who’s taking Arabic at my school, on my way to class, we hugged and then she accompanied me for my next two classes (a computer science-ish class and Japanese). She even stayed with me and Elyse and Sam to have lunch and saw my apartment before departing. ^_^ Then Maddi came back! Me, Elyse, her boyfriend Beege, and a guy I’d never met before went to pick her up as she got off the train. I was happy to see her! Finally everyone has come home and I couldn’t really hope for it over the summer, but I feel part of a group of friends again. We hung around for awhile before I had to go back to class and I got more gifts!

Beege came back from Barcelona and got me this fan and Maddi came back from New York and since she knows about my pencil/eraser fetish, she bought me a bunch of sushi and one hamster eraser. ^^ I really felt so loved that they’d thought about me. Anyway, around that time Maddi promised me and Elyse pizza so me, Elyse, Maddi, Beege, Sam, Marcus, Ace, Kash, and Brent (some of these guys I barely know) all went out to get said pizza. It was pretty fun but I was on the end of the table and Sam was falling asleep so I found my energy draining as well…plus it took forever for us to just eat. Sam’d mentioned he needed to buy a book for class so I accompanied him to the bookstore because I wanted to buy poster sticks…except when I asked the guy who was ringing Sam up where to find them, Sam told me he had plenty, actually, and that he’d give me some of his. So we left, to find the rest of the group waiting for us outside the bookstore…kinda awkward, guys!

So anyway, the majority of the group got dragged by Maddi to meet a boy from our high school who hadn’t met anyone in college yet. I got off the hook because I already met him, Sam because he was tried, and it just wasn’t mandatory for Kash for some reason. So I didn’t have my card to get back in my room, so I asked if I could stay with them just across the way for a little bit and grab the poster sticks while I was at it. So. We got there and at first I was waiting for Elyse to call saying she got back, and then after she did I just didn’t feel tired and I didn’t really want to leave, so I just stayed and hung out with Sam and his friends…Kash, Marcus, Nigel and Will. And I have to tell you, I remember now why until recently most of my friends were boys. Boys are so chill. They don’t make you talk to them! I love Leesie of course and my other roommates seem super sweet, too, but I was just in the mood for peace and quiet after the constant chatter. I didn’t have to fake any conversations or say things out of politeness and nobody felt like they had to fill up any silences. It was awesome, actually, lol. So I also learned that Sam’s roommates seem pretty cool and so I just hung out with all of them. It did get boring just watching them all play games I didn’t know, but then again I was too lazy and too enjoying the quiet to really want to move.  A few times I considered leaving since I was getting tired/didn’t want to bother anyone but then Sam and I decided I didn’t need to do my homework yet but that I did need some Rice Punch and we sorted Lego pieces. (If you’ve never had that that is like SUGAR, so I didn’t sleep for awhile after that.) Finally at around 3:30 am I imagined Elyse had already gone to sleep and didn’t want to wake her up, and the guys told me I could stay, so I did. I slept in Sam’s bed while he slept on a HUGE beanbag in the living room…I felt bad, but by the time I said so he was basically already asleep.

I woke up when Sam got back from his class and again I felt bad but he let me sleep longer. Finally my alarm went off after my grand total of, say, 6 hours of sleep, and when I went to leave he gave me Pocky. I told him giving me candy after letting me stay over was not a good way to get rid of me and he shrugged. I wonder if these people really won’t get sick of me. lol

So then at 10:30 am, still wearing my clothes from last night, I walked across the lawn and followed someone with a card into my building, took a shower, sat down, and did my homework maybe 2 hours before the deadline.

…And that is what university is all about.

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I apologize for the delay. Friday I moved in, Saturday Elyse and I picked up Sam (!!) and also moved some of our and some of his stuff in. Yesterday we all went to the Korean Market. It’s been a busy and fun couple days. I haven’t seen Britni yet but she came back as well!! I’ve been happy to have my friends around me and not be so bored and lonely all the time. For the first few days I was feeling a little sad despite the excitement going on, but I had a nap today and I think I had just been feeling tired.

Here is the picture of my room that I promised. It’s a little messy right now. Other than adding some posters, I’ll keep it this way. I’m pretty comfortable here already! Also, those aren’t all my star bottles. There’s just one more that was hiding on the shelf under my table.

Also, here are the gifts Sam brought me back from Korea! The thing on the far right is a bookmark/letter opener. Thank you~^^

Thanks as always for the comments and tags!

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Rikai-chan, the built in Japanese-reader dictionary for FireFox, has an entry for Clow Cards. Yes, if you install it and mouse over クロウカード it will automatically translate it for you. This is especially interesting in light of the fact that though the dictionary is extensive it misses a handful loan words from English used in everyday Japanese. But no guys, we got ya covered when it comes to Clow Cards. …I’m starting to regret not packing mine for college…

Here’s the real photo for the day. A lot of the old songs I’d discovered on the old CD’s yesterday were Cardcaptor Sakura songs…so today I happened to spot my COMPLETE VOCAL COLLECTION and loaded it up. ^_^ I already had most of the songs on my computer and iPod already, but now I know for sure I’m set, haha.

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→ I went to the Doctor’s about my purple stain on my hand. Fortunately he said it’ll heal over in a few weeks!! But until then there isn’t anything I can do to help it. The purple may be a forming blister, but the doctor reassured me that it’ll heal on its own so I suffered no intense damage from the frozen nitrogen. =)

→ Mom took me to get some things like food and paper towels for my apartment. We bought everything in bulk so that it will last awhile and it’ll make life easier. It’s hard to rely on her (I don’t know if it’s obvious but I’ll just tell you straight out I have a horrible relationship with my mother), but she does want to help sometimes and I appreciate it.

→ After that I went on another packing frenzy and brought most of the loose ends together. I worked on little things I hadn’t wanted to pack before like my posters and then started the daunting task of choosing which clothes I’ll bring. I used my Poppy’s trick of rolling up your clothes in your suitcase and it really does work–you can fit a lot more in there! Now I just need to finish with my clothes (I did laundry today), get some newspaper for my star bottles and wrap them and pack my bathroom things like shampoo and…well…I should be done with packing!

→ Dad was in a really good mood tonight and we went through some old CD’s I burned him from 2003 - 2004. I was so surprised to hear all these old songs again! I used to be really disorganized with my music so it’s inevitable some got lost along the way but there were also songs I got sick of and hearing them again made me want to save them all. Part of it was that the Bose we were listening to them on really brought out clarity in them all as well. Hee hee I stole the three CD’s to rip tonight and give back to Dad tomorrow. It reminded me how music is powerful in bringing people together, too. This summer I’ve been living with Dad and I’ve been sad to find that we have almost nothing in common anymore. So hearing these songs that we both liked (or at least he said he liked) again was a happy thing for me. Also I found my Sailor Moon PC game from like 2000 so I’m gonna try and load that on my laptop as well for kicks. xD

→ I know this is weird…but I think my English is deteriorating. I don’t understand how this could happen when I speak it everyday, but the fact of the matter is that I am having a harder time forming sentences and pronouncing words and I forget particles all the time lately. In fact, in the last paragraph it took me nearly a minute to get the wording of “…the Bose we were listening to them on…” correct. What is going on here??

→ Finally, everyday I get closer to the beginning of school. I can’t tell you how unbelievably excited I am. I won’t be bored, I’ll have an apartment with Elyse, and my friends who left will be coming back. I can’t, can’t wait until Friday…that’s when it all starts!