Waiting for FFXIII to come out.

I went to Tsutaya today and made a card. I had promised myself I would be allowed to set foot in Tsutaya only on my payday and only to preorder FFXIII.

It was hard.
Stupid Squenix had to go release a new cutsy game for DS so the temptation was staring me in the face. However, I bravely turned a blind eye at the cute display and gazed upon the real prize....

omg...It looks so amazing. I can't wait until Dec 17th!

In other news, I have to buy a PS3 now OTL

Damn....The only reason I want it is to play this game.
It had better be worth spending 28,800 for the system....

I have a #$%^load of cardboard in my apartment and today I used some...
by pinning it to my wall ^^;


( Many different pictures )

I can't get anything done bc of my fluffy lil roommate

I seriously can stare at him for HOURS

btw here is the site of the comic I am working on

http://failpires.smackjeeves.com/

There is nothing there yet but there will be tomorrow!!!

I will update weekly so yeah.


Almind is sleepy now and just became a fluff ball.

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

First off is an Almind update...

He is so cute (what else is new?). Now he is openly affectionate toward me :D
He lays down and lets me give him a head massage and then he makes little happy grinding noises. (I read that they are equivalent to a cat purring!!!)

Today I fed him a little piece of mikan. When he tasted it I swear his little eyes bugged out and he started greedily devouring it. He is now a mikan fiend.

I read that bunnies have a horrible sweet tooth so I have to make sure to now hide the mikan D:

In other news I have a lot of time so I told myself I will work on one comic this year...
This are the first two pages.

I am going to make a banner and start posting on smackjeeves and will update AT LEAST A PAGE A WEEK
(Let's see if that happens or if I waste all my time playing with my bunny)

READ RIGHT TO LEFT

I got a new partner yesterday.
He's about the size of my entire hand and is chewing on a piece of apple now.

I am going to have trouble waiting until 4 to get home to this guy...

MEET ALMIND



When he's sleepy he just turns into a ball with ears <3


He loves this box. He goes in and out of it repeatedly and then proceeds to act cute in it.

I get to cosplay for Halloween!
I'm excited :D

I made a huge batch of leek and potato soup tonight and consumed the whole thing D;
I have been downing tea, vitamin C and soup all day because I am afraid I'm getting sick.
I think if I just keep this up I'll be in the clear...

In other news I have been working on a comic with some old characters and I have four pages already inked!
I think I may actually stick to this!!! (I REALLY HOPE)

Here's a page I just scanned.
Actually the blonde guy in the comic is the guy I drew the other day as a magician ^^;

ENJOY...without words or knowledge of the story...I'll update later when I put text in...

This was another slow weekend.

I was going to try to hang out with this Cameroonian guy but he seemed like he likes clubbing a lot so I didn't end up going out with him.
I don't want to be in Roppongi at like 3 am. That is really sketchy and dangerous for a girl D;

So today I was supposed to meet up for lunch with Kiko. She readily agreed to meet up the night before so I thought, "She's finally snapped out of her depression!"

Actually I was really wrong.

It started when she asked for us to meet at 1 instead of 11:30 and then at 1 she called saying that she didn't want to go out. I was practically crying in front of Harajuku station...I am so worried about her and I am worried that I am losing one of my best friends. She is closing herself up in her room and not seeing anyone. I don't think it's good! Whatever I said to her was countered with resistance. Her grandfather is in the hospital now so she goes there but I think that just going to the hospital and her house is not good either.

I wish there was something I could do to help her but I feel like she doesn't want to even listen anymore.

So I ended up walking around by myself and there was a children's costume parade for Halloween!! It was overly adorable so I was able to cheer myself up. After staring at cute kids and dogs (yeah, single people with elaborately made dog costumes for their "children"....) I went to eat a kebab and talked to the Turkish guys who run it. Somebody slammed into me when I was holding my kebab causing meat and kebab sauce to go all over me. Luckily the nice kebab ppl gave me a refill and helped me clean off ^^;

I then realized that Tokyo has way too many people and I like just going there on the weekend ...
besides from I got Mauna Loa cookies, a can of chickpeas, manga ink, manga paper and a Hatsune Miku outfit.   YEAH. It was 2,990 yen.

2990 YEN!!! OTL

Now I have a skirt with no purpose (; , ;)

that I waited so long for my first paycheck and haven't touched it.

TODAY I AM GOING TO.
I really hope that I don't go crazy tho.

Tokyo is one of those places which has the effect of just sapping my money from me being there.

I got a package from China yesterday :D
I got pinenuts, a super poncho, and pillowcases.

I am enjoying the pillowcases but my parents could have been more creative and put some candies in there or something >:{

In other exciting news I discovered a craft called "felting." It's pretty fun!
You take wool and then just stab it to death until it starts to firm up. You can then mold it into shapes and then stab it some more to keep it that way. The stabbing needle is really sharp so I punctured my fingers and bleed a bit....BUT aside from that FUN!

I made a really cute bunny

I only have one class a day nowadays DDDD;

I spent the rest of the time grading midterms.
It makes me sad just sitting around all day at school...

Look how bored I am!
I made these guys at my desk
( Read more... )

I had no classes today and came an hour early....

why? Because of flu and the latter because of my habit of always being late on Wednesdays...^^;

I drew a picture today that I was happy with while at school. My fellow teachers seemed to like it :D


This took me two periods to complete!
Then the rest of the day was spent doing Japanese grammar exercises and grading papers.

Then I came home to my costume in progress...
I got pretty far!
The skirt is mostly done, one sleeve is done and I'm making the headphones :D
I ended up sticking ribbon on tape and sewing it on the skirt ^^; Daiso didn't have thicker ribbon in the right color so yeah.

Pretty creative, right?

I went to the Daiso today and got a needle, thread, and cheap black fabric for a total of about 500 yen.

I found out that I didn't buy enough fabric...but I did complete one sleeve and a good portion of the skirt!

Here is a picture (^o^)
(It's hard to see because everything is made of the cheap, shiny fabric and my room is a mess)

The wig already cost about 2,000 yen so I am shooting for the entire outfit to be a total of 6,000....That means I have about 3,500! :D

I think the hardest part will be finding a long grey button up shirt and the extremely teal tie ^^; Maybe I should find a white tie and paint it....

So it turns out that I can't go to Comiket in winter D;
I have to see my dying Italian relatives...at least this means a trip to Italy! (I sometimes wonder if I have a heart)

ANYWAY here is my first story that was going to be in the doujinshi.
I will probably make cheap-o copy books with the second story (Germany/Italy) included and hopefully those will be sold sometime.
( Read more... )

And in that while a lot has happened :D
My student made it to the national competition for the English speech contest!
I still can't believe it!

The following weekend I went to the exotic land of Toyama and stared at Korean boybands in nittlegrasper's house.I'm sad because I can't find my memory stick that has the Korean songs on them. I am happy, however, that "Lollipop" is finally out of my head! oTL

I got my first paycheck this week so I went to the home goods store and bought luxurious items like a bucket, a shower curtain, and some more hangers.

It's funny but buying cleaning products makes me really happy. :D

I also found out that my air conditioner has a heating function and that it is actually really warm....

I brought the computer in today to work on my doujinshi. The students were amazed by my drawing tablet. It was really cute.(Good thing they did not see the doujinshi)

So I finished toning the first page of my doujinshi and I soon realized that all of my Japanese fonts SUCK....


DOES ANYONE WHO READ THIS JOURNAL KNOW WHERE TO GET GOOD JAPANESE FONTS??

OTL
I will show you how horrible the page looks to try and sway you.

When you open a bank account in Japan you get a dishtowel and a sponge.

So practical!
It saved me the money of actually buying those things!

I bought a $20 dollar knife the other day. I think it's worth it because when I was cutting a tomato it didn't feel like it, it felt like cutting through butter.....


YUM

Japan, you make some good kitchen knives

I am now in Japan.

In a Leo Palace in Midori City, Gunma.
Everything is happening so fast that it's unbelievable.
My company I'm working for is pretty small and based out of Ashikaga in Tochigi so most of the day is spent commuting from place to place by car. Gunma is amazing in that it is a continual maze of big roads and chain stores.

It kinda reminds me of America lol

Today I got to go to the Fukaya branch and help teach a class of two six-year olds.
They were absolutely adorable and extremely intelligent. Not only could they read words in English but they could also read out sentences.

They spent most of the time chasing each other around and screaming "Gattai!" when they catch the other tho ^^;

Everyone at the company is very nice and extremely friendly. I think this is going to be a good environment for me after all.

My language school just contacted me with an offer of either working at the language school and teaching all ages (what I applied for) or going to one junior high school and teaching there everyday.

The junior high school is near my house and so I wouldn't need to drive...

However these are middle schoolers....possibly the worst age that a kid could be.

What should I do?

And now Facebook is blocked D:

At least I have LJ....

Man I want my Facebook back!

For some terrible reason airfares to Shanghai are 2x what they usually are so my mom and I used our miles and flew for free. We got to ride on a Cathay Pacific flight to Hong Kong.

Cathay Pacific was so awesome! They had over 100 TV programs and 40 movies that you never had to wait for! And they had semi-edible food! It was like airplane heaven.
(except for the fact that it was 15 hrs long and we had to take a plane back up to Shanghai when we had flown over it. My mom and I wondered if they couldn't have just given us parachutes so that we wouldn't have to waste so much time/energy flying)

I don't know when I will go back to America (which is sad because I really do like the US even though I keep leaving it T,T)

But I am really really excited to start my new life of English teaching in Japan!
I leave on the 18th and have no clue how I am going to get my stuff there...
When I arrive in Narita on the 18th I have to wait around for 3 hrs for a bus to Ota (which takes 3 hours to get to) and then have to wait for someone from my company to come pick me up at the station D;

It sounds like a very nerve-wracking day.

Right now it's typhoon season and it's very dark and windy outside D;

but I am still in a bit of sadness over not getting the MEXT scholarship....
I knew my chances were low but I still wanted to believe that I could get it D: I had already started imagining how I could meet Takemiya-sensei. However, I will still continue to read Kaze to Ki no Uta because I am wondering if Gilbert can actually stay alive to the end.

In 12 days I leave for Asia. In 22 days I start my teaching job in Saitama. It seems so far away but now I am actually thinking about it.

ANYWAY now to the part that may be interesting to people.
( DOUJINSHI FOR SALE )

I got a possible job offer in Japan!

....I guess I have to break the news to the Koreans:erm:

look at the school where I may have taught at http://www.kmb.es.kr/
isn't that a really adorable website?

I really hope I get this job!!
It's in Saitama and one of my best friends in the world will be about an hour away!
The pay is a lot less and the rent is only partially subsidized but I don't care about money as much as I care about location (I think). Besides I have the rest of my life to make money, right?:sweatdrop: