White Christmas... or lack thereof

Now, more than ever, do I want to be home for Christmas. The day is coming up pretty quick here and I've heard from family and friends alike about how much it has been snowing back at home. Apparently they got 9 inches, which is fucking crazy if you think about the fact that we usually only get like 2 or 3... cumulative, for the whole winter. (Which, by the way, still shuts down the schools on occasion. It's the northwest, we're built for rain not snow!)

It's been years and years since my parents have had a Christmas tree at home, and with them having it this year, and having all this snow on top of that, I'm really sad I can't be home.

One thing that should help me feel better though is that I'm going to see my friend Paige today, who was in Japanese with me last year (aka, fellow PSU student) and is studying at Aoyama Gakuin (AGU). For some strange reason, we've both been here 3 months but have yet to hang out. So we're fixing that tonight by going out to eat in Shinjuku... and probably getting lost haha.

Fellow blogger JT has also offered to provide me with some social comfort in the way of a drinking/move watching/whatever-ing buddy over the break, so at least I'll have someone to hang out with.

Ok, time to stop slacking off and go study for my exam that starts in three hours. Sigh.

Just my luck

Junior, cute Japanese boy who volunteers in my class... has a girlfriend. That he's been with for almost 2 years. Of course.

Which makes me think about Saturday night when I was out with my friend Ken and his coworker. At one point we were talking about Christmas and Ken was telling me that I have to get a boyfriend (he might have said should get one, but I was relatively drunk at this point) . Anyway, because of this they then proceeded to ask me what kind of guy I like and I wasn't very detailed, figuring it'd take too much dictionary use to give them a big list, so I pretty much summed it up to smart, funny, and cute. They also asked me if there was someone I liked at Waseda, and I told them there were a couple nice guys, but that I had no confidence. Now that I look back on that, I was referring to two--Junior and the guy who first subtly rejected me. So that was kind of pointless.

I don't really have time to go into how ridiculous Sunday night/Monday was, but just suffice it to say that Tokyo Cowgirl and I got the best kind of bonding two American women in Japan can get--getting completely drunk together. On a side night, that night also reaffirmed my love for Dave Chappelle.

"Fuck yo' couch!"

Distance makes the heart grow fonder

This whole no internet thing is seriously The Suck. I'm not entirely sure what The Suck is, I can't strictly define it for you, but if I could it would definitely entail lack of internet at home. To further the issue to even more irritating levels, I found out from my program associate (after asking her to talk to them about getting wireless at home) that my host parents are completely against setting it up, even though I offered to pay. Apparently they have this ideal that, if I have internet at home, I'll turn into some hermit, doing nothing but sitting in front of my computer. Which, admittedly, is almost all I do when I am at home... but I DO go out, TC can at least attest to that.

Anyway, to catch you guys up on things, last time I posted I talked about going out for all you can eat yakiniku and karaoke... which ended up being completely alcohol-less, much to my dismay. But it was a lot of fun! There were way more people than I anticipated, and that ended up meaning long waits for songs and such, but it was great to see everyone so excited and into it. Once it hit 3:30 in the morning, though, I started to get veryvery tired since I'd been up since 6:3oam, technically the day before. This caused the loud music and ruckus to become veryvery annoying, but I managed and got home and to bed at 6.

Problem with that is that I then had to get up at about 10 or so to call the family and say Happy Thanksgiving and all that. It was nice, but I was seriously beginning to resent them for talking about all of the delicious food they were eating.

Other than that, my week since then has been relatively unexciting. My little study date kind of thing with the Japanese boy (who henceforth shall be known as Junior) turned out somewhat disappointing in that another guy from class decided to tag along to help Junior. Oh well, nothing probably would have come of it anyway.

This weekend should turn out at least semi-interesting, though. I'm supposed to hang out with my friend Ken on Saturday and his friend and then Sunday go over to Tokyo Cowgirl's place and probably drink way too much considering I have to be up at 6:30 on Monday. But honestly, I don't think I cut loose enough here, so hopefully this'll be a nice break.