Yay, Japan

I am bound and determined to keep this short for once. Ha ha ha. The sound of derisive laughter. Okay, here goes. This weekend was CPW - Campus Preview Weekend. We were mobbed by many prospective freshman. At the risk of sounding old and crusty, I can't wait for them to get their smiling faces back off campus - there's too many people around. This week was blah. Tests were sad. Lab was sad. I have another lab to do this week, aargh! I didn't have anything to do with Tangerine Tours - Sarah got suckered into being a Jack. And was up until 6. Hah. No, not me.

Amy and I made a trip up to Porter today to check out Sasuga Books - a real, honest-to-goodness Japanese bookstore! We were up in Porter during Orientation freshman year, looking for Japanese bookstores, and we were so close, but we never found Sasuga Books. ;~; Anyway, we went because they are closing down and next Saturday is their last day. I was hoping to find a present for my little sister - her birthday was last week. Couldn't find anything - not even anything for myself. I think their selection is running low because they've been selling off stuff and moving things and all. So we walked down to Harvard Square to check out Tokyo Kid, and I found this awesome Totoro pencilboard that I got for my sister. It's great. I got my sisters some Pocky as well, because Pocky is yay. And it was cheap. I also picked up a CD for myself because it was reasonably priced - Gravitation, because the music rocks. And it wasn't until a good while later that I realized that it was a bootleg, and that would explain a lot of things. Aargh! I'm an idiot - kill me now. Seriously, I've been wracked by guilt all day, which probably isn't worth it in the end. Oh well, it was a learning experience, and I'll never do something so silly in the future. I should have known though. You'd think I'd have learned something from sorting through the anime club's audio CD library. Oh well, I can't complain too much - the quality's fine and the music is good. I still feel really dirty about it though. <_<;

I got Sarah to go along with me to see The Last Samurai. It was great - since she's in LSC, we got in free. ^_^ I loved it so much - it was a great movie. So epic and beautiful (well, except for when people were killing each other), and the music is amazing. I gotta remember to get a copy of the soundtrack the next time I go home, since my mom has it, and I know it's great. Yay. It was Japan. And samurais. And random ninja. And yay. It was great, even if tons of people died *sniff Nobutada sniff* Uwah, it was great though. I don't know why I am such a fan of war movies (Gettysburg!), but I guess it also helps that it was Japan, and there was Japanese being spoken, and I could understand some of it, and I was amused. "Watashi... samui. Watashi samui!" I'm trying to figure out though, why the kanji behind the movie title (which was the same as the kanji that the kid painted on the scroll for Algren) was the kanji for 'time'. The significance of it eludes me. <_<;

All right. I'm going to bed now. Which pretty much means that I'm turning off my computer and am going to get stuck reading a book for an hour before I actually go so sleep. I am so sadly predictable. o_o;

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: Radiant Silvergun Soundtrack - RUIN
Current mood: Yaaay.... Free to sleep.