..and we're back

Hisashiburi ne! Long time, no updates. I know you were sitting around at home all day, clicking refresh, saying "come ooooonn, update your blog already!" putting the rest on your life on hold. I know the feeling - I've been clicking refresh a lot lately, waiting for the delivery boy to drop off a new laptop. Well it arrived yesterday, and thus I no longer have any way of justifying the lack of updating the blog other than that I am lazy.

Which I am.

Well I'm not apologising. It's my crappy blogspot blog and I'll update it when I like, thank you very much. I probably shouldn't drink before I update this kind of thing however. Anyway, so I'm back at RMIT for semester 2. I am studying the following: Time Based Media, Digital Compositing, Internet Communication Engineering and Computer Sound Production. Usually you have 2 or 3 good subjects and one that completely sucks, but I actually like all 4 this time round. I am in a group of hardcore engineering nerds for the internet subject, and it's quite amusing to spend time with them. Their life currenly revolves around Cisco routers, Linux distro's and getting drunk in the vein hope that somehow when they are drunk, they may get to actually meet those other humans that have boobs. I do like 'em though - maybe it's my inner nerd coming out a little.

Ben and Yoko-chan have been in Japan for 3 weeks now, so I have had the place to myself mostly - Brad has stayed a bit, but I realised that despite living by myself for years, I dont think I would want to do it anymore. I miss those guys a lot. They get back on August 1.

Im only working 2 days a week now, around uni. Still 2 days too many at that place, but I can deal with it. I wont name and shame here - it's probably not wise.

As far as nihongo goes, I really havent done much lately. Yamaguchi-san still teaches me stuff once a week via jabber, and I am writing a kanji on my whiteboard every few days, but I really haven't devoted any real meat and potatoes time to going through exercises and that kind of thing. I will soon though, and maybe get Yoko-chan to help me a bit more. I really miss Alex's podcast though. I've also been told to not be lazy and update my mixi page. I'll do that soon too, I swear.

The new laptop is very nice - macbook pro core 2 duo 2.2, 2gb ram, 120gb hdd, 15.4". Everything is coming along nicely - the only thing I need to sort out is I am always resting my hands on the ambient light sensors, thus causing the screen to dim and keyboard to light up. I guess it's something I will get used to over time. So the next step is to buy a nice Nikon digital SLR, then I'll be prepared for travel!

More later..

またね。
ジャロド。