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Name: Joyce
Birthday: 12/2/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: Suddenly, I find myself interested in almost anything. Pretty wide range of things right there, from Production Engineering to Cake Buffets. Though I would probably have to draw the line somewhere... Guess it solely depends on how things are presented to me.
Expertise: Spending money impulsively and stinking up the Japanese language
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
1/3/2003
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| It's been five years since I (secretly) started this thing. Of course, I haven't been too good at updating this in recent years, but I love having it here to remind me of the kind of person I was, the things I did, and the things that mattered to me. In a throwback to my first entry, I thought I would write about the things I want now, for this year. - Taylor Kitsch from Friday Night Lights. I couldn't help myself. I just had to write a boy's name in. That guy is mother fricking hot.
- Japanese fluency.
- A job after this stint in Japan. A fairly decent one that will help me pay bills and live decently, and also help me help my parents out a little. And so I can save some cash.
- Someone who will buy all my stuff when it's time for me to move.
- A new snowboard jacket. And maybe some new pants.
- A magic way to figure out exactly what I want and how to get it (with regards to my career, at least).
- The Seagull, this old school camera from the Holga company.
- Lots of rolls of 120 film.
- My old college body back (I gave up on wanting my high school body back. and anyway, I was way too skinny senior year in high school).
- More time with my family. And friends. (this includes, but is not limited to, trips to Thailand, Las Vegas, Guam, New York, Kentucky, etc)
I'd like to think I'm a little less superficial these days, or maybe a lot more worried about things so that all the material stuff that I used to want can't end up on this list anymore... But. Yeah. I won't do resolutions because those are a little bit more private. Plus, i don't want people asking me at the end of the year, "what happened??!!" Happy New Year everyone (if anyone actually still reads this!)! | | |
| It's 11:09 p.m. and I should be sleeping right now because I have been ready to pass out since about 9:30 (after having woken up from a brief hour-long-ish nap), but for some reason, I felt like I should update this thing. Plus in the past hour and a half, I have had three phone calls which have kind of jogged my mental state and therefore made me more conscious than I wanted to be. Not that those phone calls were nuisances or unwanted or anything. They so weren't.
In accordance with how I have been updating this thing in relatively recent entries, I will summarize my months since the last time I was on this thing.
April: Shingles. That sucked. My parents also came to visit during Golden Week (which was borderline April/May, but I decided to put it in April cause I don't really have much for April). That was pretty awesome. They met my friends (who they proceeded to love, and therefore adopted like, 7 or 8 more children) and some of my students and teachers, and just got to experience countryside Japan. The end result was my dad wanting to move here and become a farmer, and all of us about 10 pounds fatter since we ate at least one parfait a day.
May: Right after my parents did Japan, I left with them for a short trip to Australia to see my dad's side of the family. My grandma's health isn't too great right now, so we took a last minute trip to go see her. It was surreal to see everyone again after ten years. I found out that I talk way more now than I did back then (all i did then was read and eat and sleep, apparently), and my cousins are soooo much older than I realized (they're all younger than me, but they make me feel old. sometimes they ended up calling me 'auntie'). I also got to see my friend Mary from NUPACE, who was awesome enough to fly out to Melbourne from Sydney just to spend one really nice day with me. And I got to see my other friend Mary Rose from high school, who I hadn't seen since probably that summer we graduated. She's still retarded, which I love. Then I went back home and got my ailment of the month: bladder infection. Woot. That lasted through to June.
June: Went to Guam!!! (Yayyyyy!) It was only for a week though. (Booooo!!!) It was really good to see my brother and my adorable godson/nephew Ethan. Also nice to hang with what's left of my Guam family and to see a couple of my oldest friends (krystal and corey). It made me realize that I could potentially see myself going back to Guam to live there again and that I could have a future there. Of course, I think I can't move there until I get married cause who am I gonna marry on Guam? But then again, I would have to convince whoever I marry to move to Guam. I wonder if that will work out. Anyway.
July: Whirlwind month. Tried to cram in some quality time with my boys Rich and Brandon before they abandoned me to move back to the States for a couple months before moving to Thailand to become master divers. (Those bastards.) While in the process of that, was also trying to get myself ready for yet another (last minute) trip to Australia to see my g-ma again. Yup, that's right, i went to Australia twice in one year. You might be wondering or thinking that I must be loaded. Well, I am not. This trip was almost entirely free, with airfare funded by my wonderful brother and food provided by my dad's fam-bam. I think I may have only spent $50 in two weeks. It was really nice and generous and awesome. monthly ailment: ridiculously bad cold. the kind that keeps you up at night.
and now we're in August, heading to September very quickly.
Not much going on since I got back. Spent the rest of summer vacation alternately dicking around and then going into work to paint a classroom or do daycare visits. School's started again, and it SUCKS. I just wish I were back on vacation again.
Sometimes (more often than not, recently) I think that I am ready to go home.
For the time being though, I am just trying to go about doing my thing at school, and then hanging out with the friends I have left, and just trying to lose some of this body fat I've gained in the past few years. It's nasty.
And... that's it. This was boring. What a waste of 30 minutes I could have been sleeping. I can't be interesting when I am this tired. I'll try again later.
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| I forget who was it that was reassured that I still have my New York-yness by saying "snap." Maybe it was Cheryl.
Welcome back to my world everyone!
Quick recap (again with no pictures, cause I *still* can't figure out how to post without being premium) of the past... what, six months?
October: Luca came over for a week of awesomeness. But you all already knew that.
November: Flew by as I spent countless nights hitting the gym and then Gusto or Denny's until about 2 or 3 every day to study for the crazy ass JLPT. I managed to fit in a quick trip to Korea where I FINALLY got to see Anna after almost two years. She was an awesome and very patient hostess.
I also got a perm.
December: Turned 23, took the JLPT, was given a super cool super sweet birthday dinner/karaoke shindig (plus birthday kitchen cabinet). Then went to Vegas for Christmas/New Year's where I proceeded to make my six year old nephew addicted to Super Puzzle Fighter II. I was a fairly bad influence, since after about four hours of watching me beat the shit out of my cousins and sister, ended up hearing him say things like, "hey, you like that??? you like that??? OooooOOoO what about that??? eat that!!!!" Also got to see my best friend since the 4th grade for the first time in seven or eight years (or somewhere in between that number) which ended up with a few too many shots and me acting like a total jackass with my friends from grade school.
January: Suffered from exhaustion, fatigue, jetlag, stomach flu, and a really bad cold. All in the span of two weeks. Started my snowboarding season.
February: More snowboarding. Major birthday hootenanny for Rich, Brandon, and Yuko. .. you would have all been amazed at my domestic prowess.
March: Busted up my knee on the fun box. That was awesome. Inu came to visit. Cried for the first time at a Japanese graduation. Awww, my chilgren luuuurve me!  Went completely broke paying off six months' worth of school lunches, as well as paying for like, three going away parties.
... now... well.. new school year's started. trying to get used to the new teachers and new kids... also busy moving into my new place (yay!). Oh... and! Apparently, I was so mentally and physically stressed out (mentally from all the money and moving things, and physically from eating mostly tofu and yogurt for like two weeks), that I got the shingles... yeahhh, shingles! Dude, that shit hurts like a motherfucker.
And... I guess that's it.
Boring stuff really.
Questions? Doubt it.
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| So at Luca's suggestion, I've decided to post something on here. I am bored, and I do have better things to do (like study for that massive Japanese proficiency test that is going to rape me in the ass if I don't get movin') but I am not at all focused and well... I need people to force me to do things. Anyway. It's October 2006 now and I wish I could write about all the adventures I have been going on in lieu of my not posting, but. Well. I can't recall very many adventures. I've been a bit busy this past month or so, but nothing of significance that I can really think hard about and recall. I'm gonna be pissed off at myself when I leave this country and have no written works to show for it. Oh well. Devin Snow left in August. Since then, I have been a little bit of a lonely mess. Justin's been working hard to alleviate that though, so that's been cool. He has even perfected the art of getting through an argument with me. When I get mad at him for something stupid, he just kind of laughs until I can't help but laugh, and then we move on until my next tantrum. I would stop throwing them, but they are just so damn easy. Especially when you're periodizing. So Devin left, Justin's around about 30% of the time, and I have deliberately avoided the karaoke scene for two months in fear that I will cry tears of sorrow instead of rocking hard like I used to. But along comes Luca Fusi, and his awesome decision to come visit me this week. Gah I missed that dork. I love that he is the kind of friend who I can suck at corresponding with, and then he comes in and it doesn't feel at all like we spent a year and a half apart. I doubt I have ever laughed so hard continuously in such a long time. I love it. And I love his mother for supplying him the ridiculous amount of mileage it takes to get him an airline ticket to Japan. Thanks Luca's mom! I'm sending Luca home with some cookies for you! Since he's gotten here three days ago, we have probably eaten at the Seven Eleven (or the "Sev," as we cool cats refer to it) about 4 or 5 times. We have also rocked hard at karaoke, even with my cold (I never want it to leave, it makes me sound super sexy); bowled the best games of our lives (well, it didnt beat my 147 that one time, but still); watched two grown men deliberate about ass pads for about a half hour; and spent a day just witnessing beautiful nature scenes that grew more and more awesome as we trekked further and further along. I would post pictures that dont do it nearly enough justice, but I'm on a crappy school computer and I don't have premium anymore so I don't know how to do it ghetto style. It seems like lately my life is full of goodness, and it is just going to get better as the weeks go by. This week, with Luca, I am going to go to Nagoya and meet up with some old friends from our days there. It won't be long, but it will still be nice. Next month, I'm heading to Korea to hang out with some more old friends. Yay! It's gonna be awesome to see people I haven't seen in years. And then in December, it's home to see my family! Some of them are lame and aren't gonna be where I'm gonna be, but it will nontheless be awesome to see some of them. It almost completely makes up for the fact that I am going to be raging broke until at least February! So yeah. That's life in a nutshell. I wish there was more to say, but I am too sleepy and hungry to say it. | | |
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