FREEZE! Like me

Nothing has been more fun here than saying 「フリズビーをお送りします。ご注意ください。　[I am (humbly) sending the frisbee. Please (honorably) watch out.] って言ったりする [among doing other things]. How great is frisbee in Kansai? It's pretty damn great. Except that random-as-hell field featuring metal grates and bricks and artificial turf and basketball hoops and people playing soccer. But the dirt fields are nice. Plus, when am I going to be able to yell commands in 敬語 (keigo, honorific formal speech) again and have people get what I'm saying? Never, perhaps. But I will try to visit in April. We'll see. One last time (for Kansai frisbee) with you and me. Maybe.

Yeah, I'm about to (hopefully) complete my registration for Paris, which involves making a résumé, which in French is not "résumé." Rather, it's "CV," which means curriculum vitae coming of course from Latin. Okay, so, I have to upload a résumé to get a visa. What?! I don't have one; this is because I did not need one to work either two summers ago or this past summer. So, now, I have to make my resume (enough with the accents), for, of all things, a visa to France. Wow.

Que c'est bon que les français n'espionnent pas sur les américains qui veulent entrer dans leur pays. Ou peut-être que j'ai tort. (It's a good thing that the French don't spy on the Americans who want to enter their country. Or maybe I'm wrong.) Si c'est vrai, ne me tue pas!!! (Don't baise me in the cul, France. [Not giving a translation.])

I went to Nagoya today with my economics class. It was pretty すげー (sugee, hyper-masculine for "great"). I'm really happy right now too, and satisfied. Don't know why. Maybe it's because my body is finally 100% behaving and I wasn't dripping snot like a melting snowman, like I had been all week. Good.

And now plans are set for my mom to go to Kyoto tomorrow and have a good time seeing temples and stuff with my host mother and me. Except it might rain. Dammit.

That's okay. From here on out it's only finals.

I acted too late to be able to send gifts home; now I have to choose from the stuff I don't need until 3 weeks from now. Think about that; that's 21 days and that's December 29 when I can expect my shit back. Not great. And that's of course assuming I send it today, I mean tonight, which is obviously not happening. And I have to send stuff home because I simply have too much crap that I don't need, like summer clothes and random pages of random stuff that I got back from my classes and need to show to the Japanese department at Tufts to get the credit I want to get. And I get this.

Ah, Borat, I miss referencing you.

Yeah, and I have to buy a Playstation so that I can play the DDR games that I bought. Also, I have to make sure it ships rapid/express or whatever the option is. But it's only about 60 dollars.

I know, I could possibly get a better deal. But I don't want to have to install a modchip, against which the games might possibly have a mechanism built within. That's what happened with the DDR games I bought 3 years ago; didn't quite work with my good old modded Filipino Playstation. And unfortunately, they don't sell PSOnes in stores anymore (Go ahead and try. Even in Den Den Town, el primo electronics-district in Osaka, they didn't have any. Why???), so my only option is Amazon. Luckily, my experience with Japanese used products is that the Japanese don't even use the products they sell off, or at least it doesn't seem like it; they're all in pristine condition when I get them, the goods are, that is. Excellentそう. (It seems like it might be excellent.)

God, why wasn't my writing this vibrant over the past two months, when my life was so vibrant with everyone else? I guess it's more vibrant now, that is, my life. And even as my Hirakata life is coming to a close, at least for this year, anyway.

Hey, but 2009 starts real soon. A new year.

And something else to go on to. Man, I'll miss you.