Just as I thought.

Shin Matsudo festival was fun.  Met some new folks and some old folks.  And yea... things with Stephen aren't going anywhere because although I was the one who invited him, I pretty much ignored him the whole time.  I think that's telling.  And all the guys that I could be interested in have fucking girlfriends, but that didn't seem to stop Vicky.  Good for her?  Anyway.  It was fun and I am looking forward to the Kashiwa festival next weekend.  I should get Andrew and Benben to come out for it.  That would be fun. 

I'm most definitely drunk right now but have to take out my lenses at least and drink more water.  Not that I have any plans tomorrow althought Takayuki asked me if I had plans tomorrow; though that doesn't mean he's going to call me.  :/  WHY IS IT SO UNFAIR?  Is wanting a Japanese boyfriend so unfair?  So difficult?  Apparently. 

Arashi ticket hotline is live.  I'll see if I have tickets for the National Stadium concert tomorrow!           

I think I'm hungover.

And that is an indication of a good night in my books.  I did have fun.  I love festivals.  Even if we just ended up standing around in the middle of the road like obnoxious gaijin but it was great.  Met 2 of Masa's high school friends who are also Amanda's private students, ran into Masa for like 2 minutes before he buggered off again, saw all the old Nova folks and met some new people, good times.  I should have eaten more.  All I ate was some takoyaki, yakitori and some corn bread from 7-11.  And a shitton of beer.  I almost wish I had stayed but I know that Nikki and Amanda don't even have AC and even with fans, I'm sure it would be fucking unpleasant, especially with the amount of people who were going back there.  It was for the best that I went back on the last train. 

It's official: nothing more to happen with Stephen.  That was made plainly obvious in my drunken state.  Pretty much from the get go.  When everyone assembled and we were walking to the festival we hardly even talked and then when we got there, I didn't talk to him at all.  I mean, he's a big boy and can take care of himself so he shouldn't need me to hold his hand but I did feel just a little bit bad when he left and it was like, "Oh right, you're here".  I would rather talk to Masa's hot friends instead.  Who, of-fucking-course, have girlfriends.  Well, that didn't seem to hinder Vicky from dragging Yuji off somewhere and probably shoving her hand down his pants. 

Woke up irked about some BNF business that really has nothing to do with me but pissed me off anyway.  Ranted to Starr and now I feel better.  I should write some fic this morning since I have no other plans but we'll how the morning unfolds.  I'm hungry but have no food, of course, so that requires a konbini trip which might be beyond me at this moment.  I have the urge to shop but I shouldn't.  Although now that I didn't hit for Arashi stadium tickets, I get 12,000 yen back so I could shop.  I am hunting for green cons at the moment.  I should go see if the Kashiwa branch of ABC mart has them in my size.  And maybe I'll go to Uniqlo or 306 House and see if there is anything on sale.  Maybe a new t-shirt or something, since I need to purge my drawers of my old ones that are ratty and gross now. 

Need to finalize travel plans today since we leave in 2 weeks.  I wonder if Justin is free? 

Downloading some old GRA episodes - miso soup and figure skating!  The good ones that I missed out on somehow. 

Meme in the morning. Just barely.

I was tagged by pearlsphere  so, here goes nothing.

+ People who have been tagged must write their answers on their blogs & replace any question that they dislike with a new question formulated by themselves.

+ Tag 8 people to do this quiz & those who are tagged cannot refuse. These people must state who they were tagged by & cannot tag the person whom they were tagged by. Continue this game by sending it to other people.

1. How has LJ changed your life?
It eats up all of my free time.  I don't know if LJ has changed my life for the better but it has changed.  It goes without saying that I've met a lot of great people through it but also a lot of stupid and morons.  It gave me a bit of an ego, made me think people actually give a shit about what I say and do.  That could be good or bad, I suppose.

2. What do you do before bedtime?
Check my email, brush my teeth.

3. What are you going to have for dinner tonight?
Haven't decided yet.  Prossibly MacDonald's or something fast foody and gross to assauge my hangover.

4. What is the one place you would like to visit before you die?
I would have to say China if I can only choose one. 

5. Introvert? Extrovert?
Extrovert, more often than not, but I can be either.

6. What do you do in your free time?
Wank on LJ.  Check my f-list every five minutes.  Read.  Channel surf.

7. Do you trust easily?
Yes.

8. Identify something about yourself you are not so happy with?
My confidence.

9. Is there anything or anyone that has made you unhappy these days?
Some BNF fandom wankery.  And boys.

10. What is your worst quality?
I'm moody.

11. Is being tagged fun?
I guess?

12. What do you like about yourself?
My artisticness.

13. If you could be anyone for one day, who would you be?
Someone with too much money.

14. What kind of person do you think the person who tagged you is?
She's kind and sensitive.

15. What are you happy about right now?
I can't say I'm particularly happy about anything right now.  I'm not unhappy either.  I'm probably still half asleep and most definitely hungry and groggy.

16. How many children do you want to have, if any?
Start with one and see how we go from there. 

17. Are you doing what you thought you'd be doing at this point in your life?
I don't know what I thought I would be doing at 23 when I was younger.  I remember calculating how old I would be in year 20XX but not really what I would be doing.  I never thought I would be living in Japan, so I would have to say no.

18. If you fall in love with two people simultaneously, who would you pick?
What the fuck?  I don't even know how to answer that.  I've never been in love so I'm too jaded to answer that question.

19. What is your favourite smell ever?
Cinnamon.

20. What was the last thing you spent money on?
Beer and festival food.  No, technically the last thing was tuna onigiri, vitamin water and ice cream after the festival last night.

I tag:
No one in particular.  Suddenly my mood just plummeted so I don't really care if you do it.   Haha.       

Book Off blows.

So I got off my lazy ass and went out around 3pm today.  My plan was to go buy a flash drive becuase I'm sick of emailing shit to myself at work all the time, pay some bills and shop.  Or think about shopping anyway.  I figured it would be a good time to go and sell some books and check out the library.  The library really isn't that far from Kashiwa station but there is a branch nearer to me that I should check out.  The main branch has English (and even some Chinese!) books.  Actually quite a large section but a lot of them are random (Tom Clancy, Danielle Steele and the like) that I wouldn't read in a million years but there were a few things worth picking up.  I got Eragon because my mom said Sarah read it and raved about it (although I wouldn't put much stock in a fickle 14 year old's opinion anyway) but it'll be a quick and easy read.  I also got a translated version of The Tale of the Heike because I obviously didn't get enough punishment from reading Mishima.  Let's try something older!  I actually read the first couple paragraphs and got a taste for it before I borrowed it so I know it won't be as painful.  And it piqued my interest because I wrote about it in my fic. 

I thought Book Off was pretty much right next to the library/City Hall but it's not.  It was another two blocks or so down but seemed like longer in this fucking heat.  I finally see it and get there and go to sell my books: one they won't take cuz the spine is flaking (IT'S OLD FOR FUCKS SAKE), one they don't want because it's... popular? and the other three they'll take.  How much did I get for 3 books?  SIXTY YEN.  YES.  Sixty fucking cents for 3 books - one of them was Mishima which was over 2000 yen when I bought it.  Fuck.  It's almost not even worth the trouble.  You can't even buy anything with 60 yen!  And on top of that I wandered around for like half an hour and couldn't find the foreign book section so maybe that's why they were so cheap.  I don't know.  Won't be making that trip again, that's for sure. 

Got my flash drive at Bic Camera and stood around for 30 minutes while the lady tried to get all my points together on one card.  Whoever set me up with both of them couldn't read my writing and put my name in all kinds of fucked up so maybe that was the problem.  Anyway, after lots of standing around like a retard, she issues me a new one and combines all my points and takes my money.  I was going to go and sit and write in Starbucks but there were no free seats and I was just too exhausted that I came home.  I could take a nap but that will just be bad news for me later so I guess I'll try some of these books I got.  Maybe they will entice me to write.

I'm in love.

JPod is the best thing CBC has produced in... ever.  Too bad the quality of it (at least this episode) is complete trash.  It'll definitely be on my list of DVDs to buy when I get back. 

I am going to write a post about Miso soup for my vox blog after watching the GRA episode this morning.  I made some nice miso soup tonight for dinner/snack/sustinance.  I am getting quite adept at just throwing whatever I have in the pot.  This time it was: a potato, onion, garlic, shiitake mushrooms and green onion with red miso.  Delish. 

Shukudai-kun is pushed back again but I don't have to work tmrw so who cares!  AND!  The guest is Haruna Ai~  Everyone's favourite new-half.  :D  I can't wait. 

Now back to the insanity of urbanite Vancouver gamer paradise.