Do do dodo... ba da bada.

My procrastination has finally set in. My Japanese paper is due on Tuesday. I need to do my hist and geog paper like.. yesterday. Plus I have to keep up with my finals studying and work. UGH. I should be writing my paper now but like.. I need an ENTIRE day. All to myself and I need proper sleep so my brain will work all day. I'm going to start it tomorrow and my Japanese paper, but it's coming down to the wire here and I'm feeling the stress come bit by bit.

I'm on Cloud 9

After like.. four weeks of waiting impatiently, worrying nervously, sweating the answer to my Japan application I have heard back from Kansai Gaidai... and I'M IN!

I checked every day at least twice and I just got back from work about 15 mins ago. I was looking up graduate school information when I thought "why Not? I've looked a million times already but just once more won't make me more paranoid" and there it was in grey italics "Accepted'. Totally squealed like a little girl.

Now I have to get a plane ticket, get a visa and fill out more paper work so I can find the perfect homestay family. I am so happy I really want to cry. There is way too much happiness in me to contain... on second thought I'll just dance around my room in my underwear.
WOOOOOHOOOOO!! <3

So...tired

I haven't woken up this early since high school.. oh em gee.. how in the world did I ever do it for 12 years.. ? Besides having to wake up at 5:30 in the morning for work those stupid freshman in my quad partied until like 4 am and freaking woke me up at 2:30 am. I was seriously ready to call the TU pd or some shit on them for underage drinking.. somehow I fell asleep again but I will definitely remember that the next time they wake me up, since this is like the 5th time they've done it!

Kansai Gaidai

Still waiting on a response. But here's the link to the school.

http://www.kansaigaidai.ac.jp/asp/no_intro_index.html

Cosplay Paper

I got my paper back from my Anthropology teacher and she gave me a good review. When I hand in the final draft I think it will be an A. Here is a little exert:

"The first part of my ethnographic research was in an online forum. Cosplay.com is the largest and most well-known website dedicated to all things cosplay. The community is open to people all over the world. There are regional forums and specific topic related forums that I have taken responses from. I had previously been a member but had never posted in the forums, nor uploaded any information about myself. I renewed my profile and introduced myself on my profile. I did not expect to run into any problems since I had been a member for awhile but I was soon to see otherwise. I began to ask questions in the general forum and immediately received a response from a forum moderator:

#####: Posts asking people to answer survey or research paper questions are not allowed without prior permission from Admin. As you can understand if we allowed such posts, every year when finals comes around we'd get flooded with students.

Following this message I sent a letter to an admin explaining that I just wanted to ask a few questions and that I can limit it to a few people. The response to that email was just as short, my account was removed. Not wanting to give up my best source of information the next day I made another account."



And here are two of my favorite examples used later in the mini ethnography paper:

#######: Your room is now your "closet" and your closet is your "armory". I have quite literally turned my room and closet into nothing but clothing and weapon racks for cosplay. I sleep on a futon in the middle of my floor, next to my sewing machine, my hot glue gun, my sequin machine, and a few other necessary tools.

######: Being awesome & absorbing attributes and superpowers of the character I'm cosplaying, including but not limited to flying around and shooting lasers from my eyes. I wear my costumes under my street clothes and change in phone booths too.

Welcome November

I needed a nice long post since it was the new month but it took me a few days to think about what to write. I am still waiting on Kansai Gaidai and totally freaking out. Yes yes it's only been three weeks since I've handed it in and DeAnna my bff said it took a month for her... but I need something to get me excited. I've begun that lull state in the semester where you know you can't skip anymore classes and you finally have to get your work done.. but the semester seems to be going fast because we only have a month left. I can survive a month of school but not waiting a few weeks for a reply from Kansai.

On another note I've sent my Christmas list to my mom-pretty sure she's going to get what I asked for. It's all important stuff mind you.. just really expensive. The main thing I want is an electronic Japanese-English dictionary. Practical purposes aside- it's just freakin' cool. I have decided on the sharp brand much like this:Very lovely no? I'm drooling just thinking about it.

Again, on another note: I have come to the realization that television today is crap. I have recently begun to watch old television shows; shows that my brother's generational age watched. Daria came to mind and I've become obsessed with her witty and sarcastic nature. I wish I could have her pizazz. For now I'll just watch the old episodes and be nostalgic a bit longer.

Current mood: anxious and a bit spacey
Current wish: That Kansai Gaidai would hurry up with their decision!
Current song: None, because I am in the computer lab in the Linthicum building where the speakers are disconnected.