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.