sailorstarsun

Often, especially lately, it's assumed that I'm a college student here. Which, given my advanced age, is rather flattering. Ya know, if I'd gone to college right after high school like a normal person, I'd still have graduated (at the B.A. level) over 10 years ago. So while I always feel old, as I am always older than everyone I know and everyone I meet, having people ask "What school do you go to?" "What are you majoring in?" "You go to Utsunomiya University, right?" feels kind of good.

But today's assumption, after telling the little old man that I wasn't actually a student, was "But you're from Russia, right?"

*laugh*

WTF? Where does Russia come from? I assure you, there is nothing outwardly Russian about me.

Now, a few things.

1. When I think about it, someone assuming I'm a student after seeing me at a restaurant might almost make sense. Whenever I go out to eat, I spend the time hunched over a notebook, going over "notes" (actually, I'm writing porn).

2. I wonder if the Russian thing was because of my jacket. I call it my Marching Band Leader jacket, but someone could possibly draw other conclusions.

3. It still doesn't beat the time, while I was wearing my Daisya cosplay at AX one year, I had some Mexican guy come running after me, yelling "Are you French!?"

Just... WTF?

And here is the last story to take place at the old apartment. I feel like it's the final closure of a very short era.

And it reminded me that I don't think I ever posted the tour video of that place. Not that it's at all exciting.

But anyway. Dollies.

There should be a rule against bringing fucking suitcases to Comiket. If you crazy bitches are buying so much porn you can't carry it all like a normal person, you need to get mental help or something. Damn.


But aside from that, I think Comiket was a success. .^_^ I got (almost?) all caught up on my D-1 TAT doujinshi collection (and had the books sold to me by a super hot Tezuka cosplayer.. .@_@ ), and started working on collecting Kamen Rider doujin. .^^ I even managed to find some Kintaros x Ryuutaros books! =D They're so super cute. XD

But I'd only made it through about half of the Eiji/Ankh stuff before I said "Woah, I need to stop." I could feel a mad money-spending frenzy coming on, and had to not let that happen. After all, I'm going to Hokkaido tomorrow. .^^

But everything I did pick up looks to be cute and/or sexy. I look forward to reading them when I get back. .^__^


Oh, this song reminded me! I also got the MOST ADORABLE EVER felt Renji... thing. XD It kills me with adorable. I'll take a picture of it later so you can all die from it too. ;P

Nope, nothing normal here.

( In (large) pictures. )


I'm sure this will all stop and my life will be boring again soon. Right?

First of all, Happy Holidays! =D Even though it's officially a few minutes past the day, here.

But more importantly. .^^ Today I booked me the best holiday gift ever. I'm going to Kyoto!! .^___^ Sooo excited!

It'll only be a few days, from the 31st to the 2nd, but I'll get to spend Oshogatsu/New Year's there, with Aniki, so I'm happy.

And I'll totally be staying in a capsule hotel. XD

Winter Comiket is the same week, so the plan is to go to Comiket bright and super fucking early on the 30th, and hopefully be able to get the books I missed out on on my ruined birthday. Then I'll bum around Tokyo, and catch the overnight bus in the evening. Sleep on the bus, and should arrive in Kyoto at, like, 8am on the 31st. Then sightseeing in Kyoto, check into the hotel, and at some point meet up with Aniki to go to the shrine at midnight. Then another two days of sightseeing, then catching the overnight bus in the evening on the 2nd, getting home on the 3rd, and still have a week before I have to go back to work. It's perfect!

Aaaand... watch me miss the bus and miss the whole thing. .>_>


No no no! Perfect!

More than seven months later, I still have days where I wake up and my first thought is "Oh my gods, I live in Japan."

For the first time ever, I used my bathtub. It went as expected.

Also, I'm currently watching 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'.. in Japanese.

Whee.

Well.... I just got back from a four hour walk across Chikusei......

I know it's mostly my own fault. I decided to see how long it took to get to my schools by train. So I walked to the train station (20 minutes), and went to the station closest to my schools, then walked to both of them. One of them was a 40 minute walk away. Noted that, then a 40 minute walk back to the station. Except.... the "station" by the schools isn't a station so much as a platform in the middle of nowhere. There was no ticket counter, booth, machine, or anything, and not a single soul around that I could ask. And I was terrified that if I hopped on a train without a ticket, they'd arrest me or something. Or, you know, charge me the highest fare they could when I got to my home station, because I had no way to prove I didn't get on hours before.

So I did the stupid, stubborn, hard-headed thing, and just walked the fuck back home. It took three hours.

I should have just gotten on the train. I should have gotten on, then walked right up to the conductor and said that I didn't have a ticket and didn't know where to get one in that station. I know enough Japanese that I probably could have made myself understood.

Fuck me, and my stupid self.

Now my knee is HUGE. My feet are killing me. My legs are like jello. And my mind has jumped off the deep end.

I think I'm going to stick with the original plan and ride my (shiny and new) bicycle to and from work. It's only an hour trip each way, and it's not on my feet. It's pleasant.

I just wish...... See, I'd planned on, after getting back from the trains, using the rest of today to make sure I had the biking route absolutely down, so that there would be no chance of getting lost tomorrow, my first day of work. I'm pretty sure I know where I'm going, but I wanted to be positive. But now, there's no way I can. Even if there were enough light outside (there's a bit, now, but it's fading fast), I don't think my legs would cooperate.

So we're going with only a fuzzy idea tomorrow. Wish me luck.


However, the wind was blowing wonderfully the whole time I was walking. Kept me nice and cool, kept my hair out of my face, whispered sweet nothings in my ear, and blew sakura blossoms all around me, so that I got to have a crazy moment of throwing my hands up and saying "Chire, Senbonzakura!"

And! And! The streets here in the town are lined with sakura, and all the petals are falling, and the wind has blown them into piles, so they look like little banks of soft, pink snow. So pretty~

I kinda like it here.


Minus the shitty train system.

Quote of the day:

"No, you can keep your gross BEANS to yourself!"