June 23, 2007
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You Know How I Do!
It’s true that life sucks sometimes… Much of this past year has been pretty sucky. Returning from Japan, leaving and missing so many people I care about, falling back into life in a rain-prone university town in the north of England, being thrown into the academic blender of final-year projects, exams and dissertations. In short; do you ever feel like breaking down? Do you ever feel out of place? Like somehow you just don’t belong and no-one underst… *ahem* Yes! Anyway, that is not how life has been this past week. Life has been frickin’ awesome! Wednesday I had my interview with Interac. Co. and it kicked ass! Jeremy was right about everything; it was the most relaxed, cool, easygoing interview ever! I was told after the interview I would be getting the strongest of recommendations and I’d be hearing from them, hopefully offering a position, in 2-3 weeks! Thursday I was called up by my university and told I’d been awarded the grant I applied for a few weeks ago. £900 grant! Not loan. Grant! Friday I finally got my results! I passed. I’ve been shitting bricks about failing most of this past year but now it’s over. It’s oveeeeeeerrrr! I ended up with a 2:2 which is fine by me. If I’d have been more on the ball this past year I’d have pulled out a 2:1 but I’ve just not been on form. Uni was done for me after we got back from Japan. All that matters now, as Kate rightfully put it, we’re BA Hons! We never have to go to Uni, sit exams, do presentations or write essays and dissertations again and that feels so good it’s palpable! Until I try to take the Nikyu that is but I’m gonna forget that for a bit…
Today was my Mum’s (cough*56th*cough) birthday so Chris and I took her out for dinner. I had swordfish. It tastes like… fish. Yeah, so regular life is… getting kinda boring. My friends are working mostly during the week, though Nathan and I have hung out a lot on the off days, video gaming, watching films (Hot Fuzz rules! Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer is OK. Entertaining but nothing special,) the usual. Other than that I’ve been replaying FF10 and slowly started learning to play guitar. I’ve been working on the 3 “A-Family” chords and the transitional fingering between them, but the guitar’s in bad need of a tuning! I’m taking it slow and I’ve had to force myself to play right-handed but I’m happy I’ve finally made a start. I’ve been trying to get some temporary work with HMV, hopefully. Starbucks, slightly less hopefully! I’m really (really) glad to be done with Uni but I’m feeling restless… When my friends aren’t around I’m just kinda sat around the house, not feeling like video-gaming or guitar-playing and just kinda waiting for something to happen. Things are starting to look really, really good with regard to getting back to Japan and I’m really looking forward to that. I’m still hoping to hear from JET and will hold out as long as possible, but if Interac offer me a place and JET haven’t by the start of August I’m going for it! No way I’m turning them down for a “maybe” from JET. There’s graduation in 2 weeks now, which I think we’ll be able to have a bit of fun with. I mean, we get to wear long black robes with hoods…! Long black robes with hoods! If you know me at all you should know exactly what I’m thinking…!
It may be a bit dead, sitting at home with nothing to do but I finally feel like my life can begin now. I seem to have weathered the storm, come through it and the sun’s shining bright! Hey, I’m happy! Right now I’m not angsting or brooding over anything. God is in his heaven, all’s right with the world.
Peace out! Much love! “So here I am, alive at last… And I’ll savour every moment of this”
Comments (20)
Congrats! You get a robe with a hood?! I didn’t get that with my degree–but if I go for a MA degree (which I think I probably will eventually) those robes do have a hood–sweet:)! So….looks like I won’t get to meet you in England after all huh? I just might have to start saving $ (once I find a stable job of course) to make a trip to Japan–MUCH more pricey, but Dani has said that I could stay with her and Matt since the hotels in Japan are very expensive, so that’ll help with some of the cost.
well done. It has taken long enough, and you certainly deserve it all. Make the next year the best one ever!
Now all we have to do is make the most of saying our final farewells to Preston on graduation day… the day when I shall make a holy vow never to tread on that cursed ground again!
Yeah Thats how we do!!!@Congrats on school and Recruiter X er I mean Interac! There must be some prestige in going to NUFS as its like the 3rd most expensive university in Aichi-ken- somehow they kick out some i feel as though going there gave me an edge over the other people at the interviewees who studied abroad. Maybe its just school pride or something else. Maybe you felt it too.
3 more weeks until I can start my life too! Hurrah!!
yay! i love good news! i am happy for you Dave…
Great to hear that you re doing good. You will have chance to come back to Japan in the future, so don’t worry about that. Just enjoy your life now!
We are visiting Mike’s parents next month!(for 4weeks) but we have to move out this flat before so we are so busy at the moment. oh well wish us luck for the flight with 2 1/2year old boy for the first time! you have good summer!
Youhou! Congrats! I dare you three to wear your flashy swords under your long black robe!!! thatd be awesome.
Congrats on finishing and passing! Also, great to hear your interview went so well. I’m sure it feels great to have options!
Congrats! It seems everything is at last falling into place for you. There may still be a few creases to iron out but most important of all you get to return to Japan. Good luck. I wish you well.
You’ll have to sneak your light-saber in under your robe!!! XP
lol Great minds think alike!
My poetry has been a bit of a mess lately but I’ve had a bit of a breakthrough as well. Even if my writing gets sparse I find I’m still happy..god, life is so complicated! But perhaps that’s what makes the successes so wonderful^^ anyway I’ll shut up now xp
“I told you so”
So you graduated, and all…
(Ive had my ceremony last tuesday, it was nice, but sooo very very long…)
I do wish they had made us wear robes with hoods, but we instead had to do with open hoodless robes with those flat, square hats (Mortar?).
A novel experience, and, after all, it only comes once (usually) in a lifetime, so its all good.
Grats acrros the board compadre! Glad to hear stuff is happening – good stuff.
And dude, if you ever need someone to tune your guitar then gimme a hallar (sp) aight dawg? Maybe even give you a few pointers from my own experience with guitar n stuff.
Also you and nathan and anyone else like booda-hooda are more than welcome to call in at my house for gaming/movies etc. I dont have any cred most of the time due to money and such, but i ‘m 90% in-house most of the time.
So again, glad to hear all is good fo’ ya!
i’m way late but congrats for passing, I did too, but I got a year, my hardest, still to go
see you around one day I hope
yo yo mr. dave moss! so good to talk to you the other day. it was long past due.. let’s talk again soon, mmm k? love you!
alright, mr. self-proclaimed emporer of xanga…i just found a way to access xanga from work. consider this my trump card. now let’s see how this game plays out, shall we, hmmm? muahahahahahhaaaaa!!!
He works in quality control for an ink company.
Grar! That game IS seriously amazing, especially in Wii form. Especially delightful are the parts where Leon has to outrun a boulder, as the Wii version requires the user to shake the Wii-mote rapidly back and forth. I love it because it’s usually such a scary game, and that removes all horror.
debidooooooo
Haaa actually we picked Manji because of the old kids book Jumanji. It just so happened to be a real word.
hey Dave! sorry to have lost contact… there’s no excuse! i’ll try and check my xanga more often.