Today my family, my friend, and I went to JapanFest here in Georgia. Not exactly what I expected.

It wasn’t bad, however, it didn’t have as much stuff as we thought it would have. They were doing martial arts demonstrations - and they had some shops and stands but it was nothing special.

I really wish they would have been selling more stuff - like more magazines, and clothes, and just..stuff. But they really weren’t selling that much.

We got a free japanese newspaper from last month, and my mom grabbed a few little information booklets. I’m thinking that maybe when I stop being lazy, I’ll use the newspaper to make some photoshop brushes.

We also got this…thing with Puffy AmiYumi. I’m not sure what its used for, but we got it after we lost at some game thing. It has a pouch-ish thing so I’m guessing its a place for carrying papers?

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Then I bought some cheap $3 umbrella. And of course about 5 minutes later part of the handle fell off - but I just picked it up and shoved it back on. Afterall, it was only $3, can’t expect too much.

Then we came home. The end.

Ah, Youtube.

I used to be on that site everyday, looking up videos, but lately I find myself not using Youtube so much. I wonder if its because people are getting over the whole Youtube thing - which is why I don’t hear about it as much - or if its because every time  I go there, it takes forever to load.

I wonder if Youtube popularity is going to turn into another Myspace thing.

Everyone has a myspace, everyone is on myspace, myspace, myspace, myspace. To the point that people start to HATE it. You think youtube will be like that?

Or will it stay cool with everyone because of all the entertainment it provides?

There are some funny and wacky videos on there. Sadly though, I lack the ability to find them. So if anyone knows some funny Youtube videos, please share.

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 Dreamhost, my dear webhosting company.

Everyone seems to love or hate them. I seem to be on the good server, so I generally don’t experience the problems other people complain about. Go me.

Except today. They posted on their status blog that they ‘fixed’ something, and along with fixing that thing they also broke everyone else’s sites. My site was down for just under 2 hours.

But thankfully - like I said - I’m on the good server so outages like this aren’t common for me. Yay.

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JapanFest is this weekend, here in Atlanta. I’m planning to go with my family and a friend.

I desperately wish I had more money. I have some, but I’m not sure how expensive shopping is gong to be.

But then, on the other hand, everytime I go ’shopping’ I never buy anything. I can go to the mall with $100 and come back with $99 because all I bought was a coke.

Like pandas? Yeah, they’re cute. And here in Atlanta we have a baby panda at our zoo. And the zoo has set up a Panda Cam for anyone that wants to watch videos of mommy and baby panda.

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Clothes, clothes, clothes.

Now, in general, I’m not a clothes shopper. But I believe this is just due to that fact that I rarely find clothes that I like. A lot of the fashion today just really isn’t for me.

Then I discovered Harajuku/Japan/Asian street fashion. <3

Now, some of the outfits are over the top, but some of the more toned down clothes are really cute.

Like this shirt from REFUSE TO BE USUAL

I want it. Badly.

But of course I don’t have enough money. Part of my money is being saved for HYDE’s FAITH tour DVD - which I of course preordered. The other money is for JapanFest - which is this weekend.

But oh how I wish I had more money so I could buy clothes that I actually like. The stuff I find in stores here is just so..blah. Works for other people, but not me.

For some reason I tend to like things that cost a lot and are very far away from where I am. What a curse.

And, as pathetic it is, I’m 19 and can’t drive. So no job. Plus, I don’t want to have to deal with college AND a job. Too much work for this lazy girl.

AND if I DID have a job, I’m not a people person, I’m very shy, and never had a job before, so I would suck at any job I got.

I fail life.

I have decided that I hate college just as much as I hated high school. I want to major in Japanese, and would prefer if I only had to take Japanese, English and Math.

I think thats all I really need, and the other classes are boring.

But no, I also have to take Psychology (which I took in high school), and a natural science (I’m taking Environmental Science). I believe I also have to have a science lab - not sure what I’m going to do there, and I also don’t know what other classes I’m required to take.

It makes me feel like I’m wasting my time. I’m not really learning anything in Psychology or Environmental Science. the teachers don’t really ‘teach’ they just kind of…talk. I could be saving money and time if I didn’t have to take those classes.

Think of all the CDs I could import (like, maybe one).
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On to Japan! Every once in awhile, I get curious and I look up jobs in Japan, and Japanese apartments. It kind of worries me when I see the prices.

If I look up a Japanese/English translator job, it usually says something around ￥200,000/month.

Then I go and look up Japan apartments and the ones I could maybe live in are - of course - ￥200,000+/month. Which means I’d have to downsize or find a better job.

But, of course, I really don’t have any skills.

So that means I’m stuck downsizing. Or maybe living outside the city.

But thats boring. I live in the country now and I hate it. There is nothing to do. I want to live in the city. I want to be surrounded by all the lights, people, and activity. In fact, I think I decided about a year ago that I wanted to live in Shibuya.

Which is - of course - expensive. I’m screwed.

Aaaand, even more on Japan-ish stuff. My favorite Japanese band - L’Arc~en~Ciel - is having a 15th anniversary concert.

15 years. Thats a long time. I hope they’re proud of themselves - and I really really wish I could go to the concert.

But oh yes, I live in America. And don’t have the money to fly across the world to see them.

To all the fans that do have the money to fly across the world to see them: I am very jealous of you. But I hope you have a good time, and you better write a detailed review when its over. I must experience the concert through others happy stories.

And more japanese practice/stuff - cut because you probably don’t care… (more…)

I have finally gotten around to setting up my own blog. I do already have a LiveJournal, but I wanted some place else where I could spam about random stuff, and update as often as I wanted without annoying the people on my flist.

 So, here is my introduction to the internet:

Age: 19
Occupation: College student
Major: Japanese

Yup, a Japanese major. My plan is to somehow get to Japan, and I suppose work as a translator or something. However, I’m currently not liking college much…the Japanese class is fine, its all those other pointless classes that I’m forced to take. I wish I could just skip all that - I want to do my major and thats it.

I think I may also use this place to practice my Japanese-y stuff. Feel free to correct me if I mess up.

はじめまして。
どうぞよろしく。

Okay, so I finally sort of have this thing set up. Yay.