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Yesterday was my last day at work, so now I'm unemployed for the first time in over 3 years! I didn't get very much actual work done, since nervousness has fully set in so I was largely trying not to shake or throw up (it's gonna be a fun week...) But I got a morning tea shout, as well as a card and some nice ( gifts )

When I finally got around to going to the Alumni Shop last week to get a Waikato hoodie, it turned out they had no stock and won't be getting more in until after I leave. So that's a bit sad. I've looked in a few other places for a decent top to rep NZ with, but none of them are very nice.

I've made up a ( day by day itemised to do list for this week ), since it feels like there are still hundreds of things I have to remember. Hopefully I'll be able to stick to it!

Today I've been doing a preliminary sort out of my clothes, so that I can wash &/or mend anything that needs it. It actually looks like everything will fit in my suitcase okay, just that if I actually fill it it'll be too heavy :/ My bags consist of ( one huge check-in and one carry-on that only just fits inside the carry-on size limit ), as well as my laptop bag.

Some time this week I'm going to have to do a flist-cut :( I have this thing where when I check my flist I have to read back to where I last left off, and since I don't know how limited my access will be in Japan I need to shrink it down. I'll probably friend people back after I get home.

Anyway, while I'm away I don't know if I'll be posting much on here, so if you defriend me you won't be missing much. My main priorities will be my Japan Blog and Facebook, but I'll try and keep up with LJ as well if I can.

ETA: I was just looking through the course listing, since I hadn't since this semester's version came out, and there are so many interesting-looking ones! My list of 'classes I could take' is like 15 long (not counting Speaking and R+W). The one I really want is "Popular Culture as Social Practice: Producing pleasures, styles, identities", but it's impossible to choose between the others. Why can't I just do my whole degree there and take them all? :P

I was finally going to contribute something to a Big Bang by signing up as a Groupie for americanbang, since that seemed pretty low pressure (just one picture or whatever required). And now americanbang has been discontinued in favour of idol_bigbang, for which all the due dates occur while I'm in Japan. FML.

My sister likes Kris's Heartless :D This has somehow made my day.

In fact she said "this CD (my "Adam Lambert and the ~Idols" mix) is okay" as well :DDDD

My sister keeps bugging me about why our internet's gotten so slow that she can't watch TVNZ on demand at the moment... Could have something to do with the fact that our usage for the month ending tomorrow is 39,059MB already :/ I blame AI fandom: endless GIFs, episode downloads, cellcasts, livestreams, epic 4-hour sessions listening to Philippines radio etc.

Just got to keep ignoring her complaints until the month resets on Friday XD

Okay okay, so I have a problem, and that problem is American Idol. (If I had been writing this post two days ago said problem would just have been Adam Lambert, but Kris has grown on me? Also I have spent this morning reading TWOP recaps of the entire season, so it seems I have a larger issue than just one fabulous guy).

And so now Adam is imminently going to move into my overall top artists on last.fm, and I don't know what has happened to my life. SOMEONE HELP ME. I am not sure which way I mean that.

The weird thing about keeping a non-fandom blog is that you don't have to be particularly good at anything to get readers. I'm so used to fandom, where the popular people are the ones who write, or draw, or in some way create content for others to consume. And then in contrast to that there's our growing circle of Kansai Gaidai blogs, where all anyone has to do is write about what they did today and they'll be added by everyone else. I mean, it helps to be able to write in an interesting style, but in the end it doesn't seem to make much difference. I suppose it has to do with the fact that we're such a small group anyway, but it's just so different to what I'm used to. It's almost like I can finally be one of the cool kids. I'm just going to make the most of enjoying it until we all arrive in Japan and people find out that I'm actually a pathetic nerd :P

A week and a half into BBB posting and I'm already 6 days behind in my reading. I forsee all this fic consuming my time for a long time to come.

I've got my Japanese exam tomorrow afternoon, and I'm yet to study at all. I have pretty much no motivation since I only need 3% on the exam to pass the paper, or 73% to get an A+, and we don't find out what our actual exam mark is (so I won't know if I break my 'all in the 90s' record).

In other news, I finally got a house for my farm on Farm Town XD

I'm not even in bandom anymore, but the fact that the Unholyverse has been finished has made my night. I have such a kink for religious themes in fiction.

Of course, I have to re-read the first two parts of the series before I can go on to the new one. Yay for something to distract me from emails and Farm Town (and study too) ^_^

ETA: wagging class to read fic, I think this is the first time this year. I don't think we were going to be learning much today anyway, probably just revision since next week's the last week of class.

The touchpad on my laptop is currently out of order, so I can only use the keyboard to get around. It's been stopping working occasionally for the last few days, and the last couple of times I've tried to use the computer it hasn't worked at all. This is severely curtailing my enjoyment of the internets :/

I suppose I should search for the spare mouse that should be lying around somewhere, and see if that will work. I'd like to know why this thing's suddenly broken, though. (I think this has happened once before, and it came right after a while? Though that time might have been when I spilt some water on it...)

ETA: In addition, the display has gone into the kind of mode it changes to when I watch videos in Media Player Classic, though I haven't watched anything in it for ages. Also, Solitaire has lost its record of my numbers of wins and losses...

That's all the weird things I've noticed so far, but I guess there could be others.

Diagnoses, anyone?

I'm slowly going crazy, refreshing my email every 10 minutes waiting for a message from Kansai Gaidai. They really should take down the sentence on their website that says they'll contact applicants within 3 weeks of recieving their application.

I tried to call in to work and get tonight off so I could go to the Vagabond anime night, but I couldn't get a hold of anyone with the authority to grant AL, and I couldn't exactly say I was sick when I'd just talked to Terrina, who also works tonight, at Uni :(

Damn it, I really wanted to go! Anyway, I've got the next 3 weeks off so I'll be able to go to the next one, but still. Disappointing. Somehow it's not the same, joining after the first night.

eta: BTW, I have a couple of Dreamwidth invite codes if anyone wants one.

... I was just mistaken for a guy on the internets for the first time (that I can remember, anyway). It's strangely disconcerting, just to be calmly playing 500 when someone makes a comment like "he's new here" and you have to think a moment to realise they're talking about you. I was using the same name as here, which I wouldn't have thought seemed very masculine? But there you go. Maybe they think I'm named Stefan and really like fishing or something?