easy like friday morning

right-o.

thursday night we went to the balcony, which was cute, but i got frustrated. i'm sick and tired of all talk - no action, and it's not like we don't have any possibilities. i don't like feeling like a helpless, angry teenager. i feel like doing something.

so we left, and ironed out details for a couple of plans we have in mind... the dog forgot his zippo at the club, so we walked all the way back again to pick it up. by the time we got to bed (incl. a way-too-sweet cup of hot chocolate / melted chocolate / touch of coffee), we'd pretty much figured out a bunch of things, and come up with a couple of new ideas.

woke up, had breakfast, and took the bus to my place. i spent a couple of hours working on my hospital project, a couple of hours researching some of the aforementioned ideas, a couple of hours playing counterstrike, and a couple of hours finally watching the entire second half of apocalypse now - redux.

amazing.

bought some fancy chocolates, went off to the dog's gran for supper. great supper, met a whole lot of his family (celebrating his sister's arrival for a holiday), and played a LOT of tekken (actually turned into a group event, with spectators).

afterwards we went out for coffee with his sister, which got me missing my piercings and itching (sic!) for my tattoo. even though i still have reservations, i guess i may as well. and regret it later, like everything else in my life. so why not?

i just got home, and am about to spend some time finding out if his sister is right, and having served in the army will get me accepted into a serious university in the states... MIT or caltech, or columbia - i'm sure they have programmes to get me going. if it turns out possible, and a better alternative to starting out in japan, then i'll just go to japan for a couple of months holiday, and then get started with my research.

also, after quite a bit of storytelling, i've realized that my post-hoc journal is missing all the stories of my first years in this country. maybe i should get going with that.