April 6, 2007
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Waiting Game!
Xanga seems pretty dead these days. I checked my footprints a minute ago and I got, like, more than half of them from those frickin’ search engines, ya know? Anyway, in light of said deadness and the fact I have a tonne of work to do I’m taking a break for a while. Still planning to check up and stuff, but no updates for a while… which means I’ll still be updating twice as often as Dierdre! (Zing!!!) We finished for Easter Break last week, which rather than giving me an actual break frees me from the responsibility of class and allows me to get on with my dissertation, revision and other projects. It all looms closer and closer and yet still seems like such a gi-nourmous mountain to climb! Anyhoos, I have some congratulations to dole out. Firstly, congrats to Calex! Good job on securing a place with JET! The UK seems to prefer to drag it out, in contrast to the US and Canada, so I’m still waiting on my results… I wish I could say with confidence “I’ll see you in August!” but, well…, I can’t. I’m not just making a deliberate reference to Star Wars when I say… “I’ve got a bad feeling about this…!”
Happy Birthday Mario!
Mario turned 22 this week just gone! Naturally, Pandas were involved… in the form of a Panda cake, it seems. Yeah. Pandas. Mario likes Pandas. Anyway, Happy Birthday to Mario! OK! I’m gonna hit the books, worksheets, library and the occasional bouts of ice-cream and video-games with Balex in order to keep me at least as sane as I am normally. And so, as I sit here interspersing Japanese keigo practice with bouts of Soul Calibur 3 (the language set to Japanese and the subs off. That way it counts as work, see…?) and consuming saturated fat-based snacks whilst grimly contemplating the next month of my life, I say “so long and goodnight!” See you on the otherside…Peace Out! “Don’t call my name out your window, I’m leaving…”
Comments (21)
First post? FIRST POST!! No way, I never get first post!
Anyway, good luck with all your study. Try not to think about the JET thing, it will all play out in time. Worst case scenario you can still apply for other companies, and we will all see eachother in Japan soon! Oh, I also hear the Panda lord may be in Australia at the end of this year!
Everybody knows playing games in Japanese counts as work! If it didn’t, the amount of study I’ve done across the last couple of years would suddenly be halved… Monster Hunter is ‘katakana recognition practice’, Gundam is ‘spoken Japanese and vocab practice’, etc etc…
Although that one game, Operator’s Side, with the mic headset through which I had to talk to the main character in Japanese? THAT was hardcore Japanese practice. I’m a great student.
Thats the one of the worst pictures of me! LOL
Also, I the Panda Lord shall be in Australia come this year’s end!
And about videogames, they are awesome so it is work, awesome work.
Pandas Out
You’re playing Soul Calibur 3? I’m so jealous! Not so jealous of the mountain of work, however. Good luck with that! Ganbatte!
Aye, I wouldnt be half as good as I am in Japanese if it wasnt for my.. Extensive study sessions training my ears with anime and my reading with games!
just turn the subs off anime, else you<ll naturally read them and pay less attention to whats being said.
And see ya in August, in Japan!
haha, i love that picture. a thousand words about the relationship between mario and dave, hehe.
congrats to calex!
keep up the good work on soul calibur…i mean, your japanese studies. i’m doing the same with armored core these days. i have got “mishon wo shippaishimashita” memorized pretty well, i think.
thanks for the sympathy, dave.
praying for your JET position…
Awesome job on the pic on BAlex’s xanga! Please share that credit with CAlex too.
hey, i baleted the joint comment you guys left. no offense intended, i just didn’t want my whole extended family to see it and be offended or frightened or something.
thanks dave. hoping/praying some good comes before the month is over…look for it!
hope you’re in better spirits when you get this.. i will chat with you later, i’m sure.. you should keep that chin up though! everything will be ok and your friends love you very much. love for dave!!!!!!!!!! xoxoxo
Jed says: “He’s drawing again! Awesome!”
matt says: he’s slacking on updates! but i guess with all the work, it’s excusable this time.
It is actually not a sports drink at all. It is very sugary, and really not all that healthy. Maybe you shoudl Google it, just so you have the peace of mind to know what it is.
-Matthew
speaking of waiting games, you plan on updating any time soon? hmmmm???
Aw, sad! Unless your NUFS pals want to sneak into the hotel we’ll be using for camp, I won’t be able to meet them! What a wasted opportunity
We’re booked pretty solid with activities the entire time, and I’m not sure it would be kosher to abandon my students to sneak off and meet new people–though given the company they’ve kept, said new people would probably be worth the damage to my reputation 
In other news, are you wearing fingerless gloves in that picture?
Oh, come on! You’re a private Michael Jackson impersonator, aren’t you?
i love the dave.
we shall talk soon!
xoxoxo
taking a month break now, are we?
dave! don’t be a poo poo head!