Up until last Friday I've been busy. It was fun, in a way, I've had worse homework to focus on, those I don't know shit what to do a day before the delivering date, this time it wasn't the case. Still, I almost didn't live to tell the tale. Hell, I even had a bomb threat by the end of the week!

Yes, I'm doing a very bad joke about something that happens seriously in other countries, but really, I can't help it! When I called my mom to tell her, because, shit, we had a freaking bomb threat in my school and the TV got to us before the bomb squad! The first thing she said to me was "who had a test coming?". NOBODY took it seriously, not even the cops. I kinda wish it had happen on monday because I had a test, not that I didn't want to do the test (I did fine, btw), but it woulda been kinda cool to have cops showing up in the middle of it telling us to please get out and have my teacher complain that until the people taking care of finding the bomb were there, better to keep doing the test, and throw the cops out. Seriously, with that teacher, that's what would have happened!

But it was Thursday and classes started late and we saw the cops coming in. We had presentations to do so we ignored them and went to class, but those who didn't do the presentation stayed out and came only after they found out the true: There was a call with a bomb threat. My reaction: Eyes rolling. We started asking those who didn't do the presentation who had called, because if that wasn't the reason, someone in Design had a project to deliver or maybe one of the Architecture students had an exam coming up. More than that, it just isn't possible, not even being cunning enough to have a building to themselves and take upcoming tests or a monitor from the computer room or take money from somewhere... and no, a real bomb wasn't really in any form a possibility.

It's kinda nice to find out your country, or city, or simply your school, in this case, is safe enough to not take a bomb threat not even remotely seriously. I kept thinking, twenty years ago it wasn't as safe, not at all, but now it is. And now I think there's a facebook group called "I survive the school's bomb". And every now and then, that event is gonna be used as a celebratory excuse to drink (a lot!).

After that, things calmed down. I had a birthday party on Saturday, that lasted all the way through Sunday and I didn't went to sleep until seven in the morning (and I only did for two hours before going home), and it wasn't until that time I came to realize it was the anniversary of Claudia's death. A grim thought, maybe, but I mostly forget the date until it is most of the time, is not like her birthday when I think about the years she doesn't have, I just block this date away. I remembered because my friend, the birthday girl, was a little too drunk and talking to me about her dad, that's been dead for two years now, and she still has issues with him after he's gone because she just put too much pressure on herself.

I seem to be very good at listening, as a friend. We talked until the sun was out again, and I talked with her boyfriend, also my friend, about some of *his* issues, and because I didn't sleep properly that night, it wasn't until Monday morning I got my hangover, gah. Pretty fitting, all in all, with both my friend's endless party and Claudia's anniversary, cus if I did know something about her was that she was of the philosophy of getting wasted to solve everything.

In cheerier subjects, I got a package today! Took a picture of the content and all (with my cell, that's why is not that good!).



Lupe, I love you!! Thank you for this, is lovely! I have it now on my dest next to the pc. It will keep me company!

OK, so I've not write regularly here for a while. I could say I've been busy, and it would be true, but I've also made time to watch a bunch of stuff, so the truth is I've only been antisocial.

The bigger part of last week I acted like a good student and did all my homework during the week vacation that never felt like one, and I was a dutiful family member taking care of things while my parents were away looking at flowers in the desert. I was grumpy as hell. I think I snapped at my grandma everyday at least once, and my brothers too, even though no one took notice of my mood. That should tell you how we usually get along!

I did leave the house for other reason beside grocery shopping, and that was to get together with Berni and Cesar and do some window shopping downtown. Fun, really, really fun.

I also ended up watching the finale of ReGenesis, that I didn't know it was the finale until I watched it, cus, really, you don't get more final than that (except for that time when everything went BOOM). It was... interesting. There's a lot of reasons why I loved this show, starting for the fact it was Canadian-based and had a multi-racial cast. But mostly, because it was about science like science should be, exciting and twisted and opening new doors to understand the world better. I was never good at science in school, I still suck at it, but I find it fascinating. I'm pretty sure this show went very much to the science fiction side of things, but it used all those myths and desires the scientific community would love to prove real and possible. It helped a lot that the characters were interesting and so incredible human even though they were super smart and you didn't know what were they talking about half the time. True, it was a procedural show when you couldn't phantom a guest as how things came to be and how to end it, but it was so appealing and I loved that it was never one plague or virus at a time, but several showing up all over the place between Mexico, the US and Canada. Great, great tv show. I'm gonna miss it.

I could talk about the new season, but so far the only decent season premiere was NCIS, I think. House was OK, but it's boring me fast, and Heroes... Uhm, I don't know yet. Of the new shows, I may watch Fringe, if only because Joshua Jackson is in it and I had a crush on him since the first Ducks movie.

Wait, I almost forgot! SPN!! Of course that was a good one! How is it I've come to love this show so much? I guess is for the pretty and the twisted and the fact that the cast and the crew, and mostly, the writers, know how pretty the two leads are and abuse it every single time. And Jared and Jensen are living together now, which I know is driving fans crazy with joy!

I have more homework to do, can you see I'm stalling? Gah, I want to fangirl about NEWS properly and their winter tour. And complain that Arashi is doing the theme song for Ryo and Nino's new drama, it's seriously annoying me, I wanted Kanjani8 doing it, or someone else altogether! I love Nino and Arashi, but I find it a little unfair. Also, is having both leads on this drama touring while they film the drama a good idea? Please, Ryo-chan, after this, take a BREAK! With Pi! To celebrate his graduation! Take Jin with you and make fans write lots and lots of porn cus seriously, it's lacking lately, almost nobody has been writing!

And yes, I plan on working on the stuff I promised to work on this weekend. I need to write that fic for je_holiday soon!

Anything else? I'm in love with Mizukawa Asami. She just keep showing up everywhere! I gave up! Now I love her even more than Inoue Mao. She's just that cool and pretty and awesome.

So, my life? Let's review the highlights of the week.

On Monday I had geology. It's gonna be hard, again (this is level III). The good thing is that I can pass this class with only attendance and going to all the field trips. Everything else I do for it is a plus!

I also had English. See, I know my English is pretty good. Not perfect, of course, I still have a lot to learn, but it's good enough for me to being able to translate freaking geography texts to my classmates for the past two years before having this class! So, I don't need it. Seriously. I didn't know how to tell my teacher that, though. He was blunt enough to say that, because I took the test to not do the class two years ago, my English is probably not good enough now and I should have done the class before (this is level III, too). I kept telling him I wanted to do the test again to not do his class, but he said it was out of his hands.

I like English, is my favorite language to learn because, as much as I love Japanese, is freaking hard to learn. English is not. For me, in any case. I could move right now to an English-speaking country and survive without any trouble. I did that last summer! Most of the books I read are in English, I have a journal where I always write in English! I don't need a class were the level is way too basic for me to actually learn something, specially if my English is actually at the same level than the teacher! Not that I will ever say that to him, but if I have to do this class... I mean, the British guy that teaches the lower levels knows me and likes me because I can speak with him in English when nobody else does. He told I shouldn't do this class. Sadly, he doesn't teach it.

Moving on...

On Tuesday I had rural geography. I won't like this class. I know that because I don't like the teacher (I had classes with her before) and because I don't like the subject. I've never been a fan of the countryside. I don't hate it, but I'm a city girl, I get bored easily with the quiet and the living far away of everything and everyone. I am not, in any case, an idiot when it comes to it, though. I lived in the countryside for two years when I was growing up. That's why I know I don't like it. I won't react like a city kid that has never been in the countryside like the teacher expect us all to react. I hate it when teachers do that.

I started my last semester of GIS on Wednesday. I have a new teacher for that class, someone with a plan. Someone that wants us to do stuff with all the GIS (geographic information systems) programs we can get our hands on. I kinda like him. Still, it worries me that the last three semesters with this class we have barely learned the stuff we need to know now for what the teacher wants us to do. He's gonna get frustrated. And so will we. Hopefully, though, we will manage to make something useful out of some middle ground. Hopefully.

Berni came to my house that afternoon. We talked a little about the worrying future of our adulthood (I know, "fun"). I also talked to her about NEWS and JE. She's not gonna loved them like Nataly and Lupe do after I attacked with info and clips and stuff about them, but she's gonna give them a chance, that's good enough for me.

Speaking of that, I now have the complete dvd that came out that day subbed thanks to newshfan, but I'm not gonna watch anything until I get my own copy, that should get here next week. And then I'm gonna wait until I can go to Valparaiso and watch it with Daniela. It's fun to just watch it, but it's a lot more fun to watch it with friends!

On Thursday I didn't have classes. I'm suppose to have soil geography? ground geography? I don't know how to translate the name of that class. Is about the ground. The teacher made a mistake about the hour of the class and got pissed because we didn't show up, but of course we didn't show up because that wasn't the hour we got for the class! Not our fault! So I got out of bed that day for nothing. Sigh.

This week I finished cleaning my room. It looks pretty nice now. I don't think it's gonna last long, so I will take pictures, but today the weather is depressing and it looks darker than it really is.

I found out a few hours ago that we at least got one olympic medal this year at the olympic games. Of course, in tennis. We did extremely good in Athens on that. We won gold, bronze and gold again in the pairs competition. It was pretty awesome, even if I say so myself. This time around we kinda screw everything up, but at least González is up to gold or silver in two days! Yay!

I have more ideas to write. Hopefully I'll do that this weekend, before things get tough in school.

Something else? No, I don't think so.

I have my grade. I passed without problem. I won't have to worry about an exam. Yay!

BUT, the moment I came back home, because it is my mom's b-day, there was a bunch of food waiting for me. I lost count of the amount of empanadas I ate today.

So, my stomach hurts. And because I've been so worried lately my head kinda hurts and my body is dead tired.

And I decided to watch V6's last appearance in Hey!x3 (that you can download here)

Fuck. I almost fell out of my chair. Gods, Macchan in pain was hilarious enough, but Okada?? For a moment there I really thought he wasn't gonna feel anything (he IS really stoic!), but I couldn't help but laugh hard and loud seeing him in immediate pain XD

Damn Japanese people, their tv shows are full of crazy stunts that shouldn't amuse me so much!

Great for my mood, though.

I'm not officially on vacation yet. I still need to know my grade in the last Geobiography test to know if I need to give an exam to past the class or not. So far I haven't done so well. I just found out the test from last friday where I thought I did good, I didn't, and I'm kind of piss about it, because it's not the same to do bad when you don't know shit and do bad when you think you did good and didn't. I had good grades in that class and now my final grade dropped and I don't really know why. Not fair. I HAVE to do better next semester. I don't care much for classes were the teachers are crappy, but I liked Geoeconomy and I liked the teacher, just like I like Territorial Organization and its teacher, and I did crappy in his test too, though that's for a valid reason (I was feeling like shit). I don't care about Geobiography or the teacher, though, but I don't want to give an exam and suffer through that.

What did made me feel better after the last long, long week, was spending the weekend with Daniela. We went to see the X Files movie (She liked it, I didn't, but it was still fun), and watched JE concerts and Shokura episodes and a musical with D-boys in it until six in the morning. It was really nice to ramble with her about nothing important and enjoy the winter vacation even though I'm still not free from school.

Now I have the week ahead of me, hopefully I'll know my grade soon and get out of that mess to be able to enjoy the nothing to do days and watch dramas and such. And I have to buy my mom a present for her up coming birthday. That's about it. Writing? Hopefully.

Oh, Lupe had this and I asked for it so I guess I should put it here too. Meme where, if you comment, I will:

a) tell you why I friend-ed you,
b) associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.,
c) tell you something I like about you,
d) tell you a memory I have of you,
e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you,
f) tell you my favorite user pic of yours,
g) and in return, you must post this in your journal.

Yesterday I had a test and a dissertation right after that. The first one on a text about emission trading systems as way of controlling pollution and the possibility of using that here in Santiago, cus we kind of need it. Even if I really don't know how I did on that test, I kinda liked the subject, so it was time well invested.

The second thing was about something similar, in a sense that treating our natural resources as environmental services and assets and giving them economical value helps controlling its use and abuse, and that was what our presentation was about. I kinda read all of what I had to talk about, cus it was a lot and kind of complicated if I didn't say it exactly like I had wrote it, but I think it was OK. The only problem was the teacher wasn't there, but only his assistant, and he's an ass who thinks very highly of himself and the stuff he knows, so he started talking going around the subject instead of asking us a question, and when he finally did, it was what we *just* said was our conclusion. And he did it again when the next group finished and decided to do a comparison between our works and wouldn't it be a great proposition to do something about it, like including some of it in the law or something, don't you think? Then I got pissed and I had to exclaim: "That's what we just said!" Gah. I'm kind of angry cus I really wanted to have the teacher see us and comment. He's kind of my favorite teacher this semester and I like that he also knows his assistant is an ass and made very clear that it wasn't his decision to keep him there, mostly cus when he told us we were gonna see the guy's face again this semester I snorted and he kind of nodded at me like saying "I know!".

Anyway, after that I went to pay a bill and when I finally went back home, Daniella called me on the bus. Of course, we ended up talking for an hour, both of us going back home on different cities. Kinda cool, I have to say. She finally finished this long, long semester and will come visit me on monday. Yay!

After I had lunch, though, I couldn't stay standing anymore. I put another episode of the kdrama I'm watching and went to bed. I think I managed to stay awake for half of it. It was cold and I was tired and I didn't slept much the night before, so I fell sound sleep for the rest of the day. I actually awoke around nine or ten, but then I thought, what the hell, and went back to sleep. I usually don't like to sleep too much cus it makes my head hurt, but this time it felt awesome.

Today I spend the day making some order of my computer. My fic collection is huge and I don't really know which story is which anymore, so I had to make files. My vid collection is better organized, thankfully, but Iv'e downloaded a lot of stuff lately so I placed everything where it belongs. My music file is still a mess, but I'm just not touching that yet.

I also started writing again. I had forgotten how much I like it and how freaking hard it is when the language you're writing in is not your own. I mean, I write here all the time, but what I write is pretty simple, I don't have to use the "right word" to say anything. Ah, anyway. At least I'm doing it.

I watched the Anego SP. I liked it. It had a story to tell aside of being a resumed version of the drama, and the excuse they use to re-tell the drama made sense cus Anego's co-workers really didn't know a big part of her story so it worked for them to ask about it. It does go in the "dramas I want to write an extra ending of" list. Though, actually marrying Naoko-san and Kurosawa-kun sounds a little too simple after all. I'll have to think about it.

Ah, now I'll go to msn looking for Lupe. I have to give her some links.

Yesterday was a great day.

NOT because it was Massu's birthday. Or Jin's. Or my own twisted birthday (july 4th was the day my parents had sex without protection and conceived me. I know, very romantic).

Yesterday was great cus it was Isidora's birthday!! Literally! Misa's baby girl was born! She's big an healthy and it only took like an hour or less to take her out. Misa kept smiling all day long afterward. I don't know if I'm going to visit them again today, but if not, definitely tomorrow. I finally was able to give them all the stuff I bought for the baby in the States.


In completely unrelated news, just now I watched the first episode of a Korean drama. Usually I avoid kdrama like the plague cus their soap operas are as bad as latin-american ones, but this one even made fun a little of that kind of plots, and it had two women bitch slapping each other with words about their professions, not a stupid love triangle or something like that, and it was really cool. Wish I could see more of that on tv.

I also watched a drama with Sho from Arashi playing a pre-school teacher, so it was basically him and a huge amount of five years old running around playing with mud. Cute. And some random Arashi scenes with the rest of the band showing up as extras here and there.

My first week back to classes was OK. I have a big presentation next week, a small report and two tests, but if I don't get stuck here doing nothing productive, I'm gonna be fine with it. Is not overly complicated.

I'm back in classes. Which means, I'm back to having not much to do Thursday's morning cus my GIS class is never fully on cus the programs take forever to work.

So far so good with all of this. I'd two papers to deliver already and tomorrow I have test on a text I haven't read yet. Is all good.

Thankfully, I had a good send of. Last weekend I went to Valparaiso to visit my little brother cus his birthday was last Wednesday. We ate like the world was about to end. Then my parents dropped me off at the cinema and went on to a big party of a friend of the family. I got together with Daniela then.

We went to watch The Happening. We laughed so hard the rest of the people there in the theater heard us. Good thing, then, that they were laughing too. That movie is BAD. Like, in the list of worst movies I've watched, EVER. So bad it was hilarious! Gods, what happened to that director?? (no pun intended!)

We decided, then, that it was a good idea to watch another movie to make up for it. We watched W.A.L.L.@. And it was worth it. BEAUTIFUL movie. The kind I have no problem watching again, so cute and sweet and the kind of movies kids should be watching. VERY well done.

After that Daniela invited me to her place, and without intending it so, I stayed the night and we didn't sleep, AT ALL. We ended up watching JE concerts and interviews and she laughed really hard with the ass buzzer episode of NEWS on Utaban, and I almost fell off my chair when I saw Aiba's falling into a hole. Really, is something you HAVE to watch if you haven't already.



I stayed there until nine in the morning, but then I decided to leave cus we were really sleepy by then and if I slept, I would have stayed until way later, and I had to return as early as possible back home to help out Alejandra with a translation. I didn't do much of that, actually, but I was good moral support? I hope so.

Still, Daniela, hope we do that again. I'm glad I was able to give you stuff you haven't watched cus it's always you who brings me shiny new things. Next time is my house! You still haven't seen my new room and new PC and you have winter vacations and I don't, so come!!

OK, I should go back to the class now.

I came to realize I'm a lazy ass person, but I love my friends.

And I will definitely have to work on teams when I go out to the Real World.

A talk with Alejandra made it pretty clear to me, last weekend. When I told her I had to write an essay on territorial planning and I just kept leaving the task for another day, she said "Javi, I need your help! I need to write an essay on territorial planning, can you do it for me?"

It made me laugh, but is true. I'm more likely to write a good essay for a friend if he/she needs it, than do it for me when I have to.

That's why I actually like working in groups. It's a pain in the ass when the rest of the group is lazy, but in those cases I'll just do all the work and I'll at least feel good about *that*. When the group is good, my competitively shows up, and I don't want to be left behind and BE the lazy one.

Mariana and Larissa, the classmates I'm closer to (and yes, I call them friends now), are great in that respect. They are really smart, they always get the best grades in every class, and they like to work with me. Since two semesters ago we've been doing almost every group homework and project together (and that's a lot, considering what I'm studying. It's hard for me to keep up with them. I'm just not that smart. But I get the job done cus I want to put my grain of sand in our work.

When I work alone... I just don't do it. Or do it in the last possible minute. Which I did, for the essay anyway. I need to change that. I'm trying that this weekend. See if I can study *before* tuesday for the bio-geography test on wednesday.

I did got to talk about about territorial planning with my dad. It was really interesting. I like the subject, is something where geographers are needed and is not that difficult, just unknown. Sadly, is something my dad has work in, and that's a problem for me.

If a want to work in that field I can try, of course, I kinda want to, because even if I love disasters (natural or otherwise) as study subjects, they need a lot more preparation on chemistry and physics, actually, and I'm lousy with both. So regional processes and territorial planning can be it, but that WILL mean working, one way or another, with someone that knows and has work with my dad.

I didn't study sociology in part because I wanted to avoid that. My dad. I love him to death, really, but he's a hard guy to follow, and I never really wanted to. Is not that we don't agree on things, we do, and I'm a daddy's girl, so we *adore* each other and everything we do! I'm hugely proud of him! But I am *not* him, I'll never be him, and I don't want to be related to him while working.

My brothers are a lot more like him than I am, but I know they don't want to be his shadow either. Well, maybe Joaco. He's studying sociology and is politically motivated and has the confidence Santi and I lack to follow his steps. But me? It scares the crap out of me the day I'll have to go out looking for a career-related job and I'll find out the people I may end up working for are friends or former workmates of my dad.

And that CAN happen, easily. You know that six degrees with Kevin Bacon? My dad's WORSE! I'm pretty sure I can make a six degrees connection with *Yamapi* from him. He does work for a Japanese company right now!

I got a little off-track. I guess I'm bored. I've been trapped at home today, just when the two days before I had a break and rested here too. Damn rain. It's probably gonna rain again tomorrow. The sun didn't last long, though it was beautiful.

Today my brother came to visit. Or eat out food, more likely.

See, last sunday Joaco told us he wanted to go live with a couple of friends closer to the university. He left on monday.

Doesn't matter we actually live pretty close to where he study (specially compare to me, that I have to travel for an hour to get there and his trip only takes twenty minutes), or that it was Mother's day when he decided to tell us or that he doesn't have any money save for a few bucks he saved from his summer job (not buying me anything for my birthday, of course).

He left and now he's back because he has laundry to do (not that he's doing it himself here), and he probably wants to take stuff from our fridge.

Yes, you can tell I'm angry.

I don't really know, it's not like we have a close relationship, we don't, not since he became a teenager anyway. Or that Santi needs him, cus our little brother left first to study in Valparaiso (though his university has been on strike for a month now, so I've seen a lot of him lately. He gets bored alone with nothing to do, so he comes to visit and eats everything we have too!).

It's not like I feel I should leave the house too, because I just don't. There was a moment during the summer, while I was far away and my grandma was taking over my bedroom and my sanctuary (the computer room), when yes, I was thinking of moving out, seriously moving out, but after seeing the effort my parents made to make me feel comfortable in my new (small and cold) room, I knew I couldn't just leave.

My parents are not like that. They're not the kind that wants you to grow up and move out. They have no problem with me growing up and still living home. I can leave when I want to, yes, but I want to do it once I have the means to not depend on them anymore, and that's gonna take time.

Plus, I've already done the live alone thing. I lived almost four months on my own, in another country!! Where they didn't speak the same language than me! It wasn't even in the same hemisphere! And I do think that was pretty awesome of me, thank you very much. I didn't go back to my parents' every weekend to have my landry done and fill my fridge with their food. I worked my ass of, and did my own landry, and bought my own food and I brought present for everyone when I got back!!

Now the house is just empty. Next week I'm gonna be all alone because not even my grandma is staying. My mom is gonna have fun in a lost national park with her friends. My dad is never here during the weekdays anyway. And no little brothers. Sigh.

I always thought that, when they finally left, it was gonna be more dramatic. Moving all their stuff, having a faraway party... But now, Joaco it's probably gonna show up next weekend to ask my dad for money to pay this month of the university, like every month. He's gonna take more food from us, and leave another bag of dirty clothes. Same thing with Santi. Plus he's gonna ask to be dropped in or picked up from a party or his girlfriend's house. Nice.

And you think any of them did anything nice for my mom on Mother's day? Gah.


In another unrelated topic (because I just don't want to talk about that anymore), it's end of season time. And that means, me screaming and not making much sense and a lot of post about nothing at all cus I can't spoil the fun of anyone here that might be watching the same show.

I already have the SPN finale and the Numb3rs finale. I'll probably watch them today cus tomorrow we have visits and I have an essay to write about the structure of territorial planing in Chile. It's actually a fun subject once you understand it, but that doesn't mean I can write about it, and I think Miguel (the teacher) is asking for the great thing, because we (Larissa, Mariana and I) always have an opinion to give in his class. I do like his class a lot, but I have problem concentrating during long periods of time in front of the computer without distracting me with my fandoms and stuff. I do want to do something good, so I might convince myself to do better this time.

Anyway, I got sidetracked. Thing is, expect weirdness (more than usual) from me the next few days. I'm gonna be all alone here, so it's gonna get only worse!

Life? Life has been OK, I guess.

Had my big test on tuesday. It went better than expected, but that doesn't mean good, exactly.

I helped Alejandra with another translation on thursday. It was FUN. Pretty awesome of us to be able to correct a text about genes and *fungus* without having a damned CLUE about what the hell the author was talking about!

For those who didn't know. We had a volcano eruption in the south the other day. It was BEAUTIFUL. Of course, I feel bad for the people that lived close by and had to leave and leave behind all of their personal belongings and their pets and livestock, but it's a natural disaster, one that's completely common and out of the ordinary in this country (you know how many volcanoes we have here? And that even if they're not suppose to be working any more any day any one of them can go BOOM like this one now? I knew, that's why I'm not surprise), so I can only see it from my career choice's point of view. And from there, it's a beautiful act of nature!

I've find out a lot of stuff about KAT-TUN this past week. I still like Nakamaru a lot, and I'm liking the music (though really, if I want to hear what they want to sell, I choose real j-rock bands instead), but I don't really like them as a band yet. Not as a boyband anyway, where they should be a lot more appealing than just as "musicians".

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It just finished downloading the season finale of Numb3rs. Last year's season finale was... well, it wasn't pretty. I agonized for MONTHS with the cliffhanger. Now I know for a fact that something will go wrong because Diane Farr is leaving the show, but you never really know beforehand HOW wrong it will actually be. Sigh. I guess I'll have to go and find out before I stumble with a spoiler, right?

Argh.

If I scream in my next post then you'll know what it is about.

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EDIT: OK, so not the season finale. Thank the gods! 'cus it was really not-an-ending kinda episode. Plus, no Megan, so we couln't say goodbye to her. Next week then!

So, I've been home for a few days already, since Sunday. Sorry for not writing here sooner, I've been busy and my dear computer at home has been acting crappy, it manage to get a bug in it and now I can't go into the net without it going crazy!

But after a week of goodbye presents (food!), a lot of hugs, two train stations, FOUR airports and an extremely long weekend with two or three time changes, oh, and a change of room, I'm finally home.

I missed you ALL!

Lupe! I got your letter, thank you so much! You were completely right, it did make me feel a lot better read your message when I got home. *HUGS*

I had fun, I got bored sometimes, I manage to buy presents for a lot of people AND give some money back to my dad, I can honestly say I can work without feeling I'm completely useless and I left a good friend behind. Mission complete successfully.

Now I'm back and I have to get myself together for classes, find enough time to go visit everybody I know (I'm gonna go bother Daniela this friday, for example), and then I'll have my computer back and running to find out what everyone here in the net has been up to this past few months.

My mind has to go back to the class now.

I had a nostalgic friday, an awesome saturday and a pain in the ass sunday. Long weekend.

My little brother isn't so little anymore. Last friday was his graduation. He played bass in front of a LOT of people and got recognition for his interest in math. I felt proud, old, and envious. My kind of goodbye wasn't that good. Wasn't any good, if I think about it. I'm not in contact with any of my classmates from back then. I didn't leave much of an impression on anyone... And history repeated itself when I was studying Translation. I have to do better this time around.

On that note, I got together with two groups of friends on saturday. First, after, like, two years? I think it was more than that... I went and visit Misa. It was wonderful. Again I felt happy and glad to found out that she and Paula, who was there, are doing good and are now more adult-like still being a little freaky. Misa is getting married in two months. Sadly, I won't be here to celebrate with here, but I'll be back before she has her baby (yes! she's pregnant too!), so I have time to catch up and become a proper aunty.

I found out Paula seems to like the same Japanese dramas that I watch, so I'll stuff her with all of those I've watch so far, so when I come back we will squeal like little girls together (we almost did on saturday, much to the annoyance of Alejandra).

After that, I went to Jose's house to get my goodbye party from them. We didn't do much, just talk about nonsense, but it was nice that they gather to wish me luck and all. Hopefully when I come back we can go to Caleu together again. That place is a bore for me, but with friends you can have fun anywhere, right?

On sunday I had to work on my last paper. We didn't finish it like we were suppose to. It was too much trouble by the end of it. I'm kinda sad I didn't help more, but at least it's done. Now I have a test tomorrow and my semester is finished. Thankfully.

I'm watching two new Japanese dramas. I want to finish them before going away. None of those are really up-lifting and light, and both may end really, really badly, but I can't help it if I enjoy stories about chance and coincidences. Both have Yamapi in it, too.

Sore wa Totsuzen Arashi no You ni (that means "It was sudden, like a storm") it's a story that seems perfect for a soap opera. It's even aimed for a older audience. It's about a woman in her 30' that realizes her life didn't turn out like it was suppose to, and not because things aren't bad it means she didn't wish they were different. And then, she meets a high school kid, who points out to her exactly what is that she feels and what she wants, so she starts feeling... it's like watching a crash waiting to happen. You just know it can't end well. The plot is good enough to distract you from some points any other way you could have picked up (and if I was distracted, that's saying a lot, considering I'm always the one to find out the end of a story by watching only half of it). The relationship between the main characters is surprisingly good too. You don't expect a 35 years old woman to have that much chemistry with a teenager, but I guess Yamapi does make the job of looking attracted to him easy, right?

Long Love Letter has a plot a little different... Though it's a lot about chance too. A math teacher tries to explain to his group of students in recuperation class about the science of "now" and points in space-time telling them of the time he couldn't call a girl that he met years ago because his phone was stolen right after exchanging numbers. I know, it sounds a little silly. But I refuse to explain further, cus I woulda loved being surprised with the twist at the end of the first episode but I already knew it was gonna happen. Just... listen to me on this one. It's better to be surprised.

Today... I went shopping with my mom (I have winter clothes now!). And I have a killer headache after yesterday, I'm gonna go to bed.

APROBÉ GEOGRAFÍA ECONÓMICA SECTORIAL!!!!!!!!

うれしい~~~

Apenas, apenas, pero lo hice! Gracias trabajo de Expert Choice! Nunca más tomaré una decisión en mi vida sin usar un programa de toma de decisión multicriterio!

YAY!

University: Guhk. Horrible. The one presentation I've been waiting to finally deliver was postpone... again! The teacher assistant responsible for this is gonna burn in hell... or at least, I hope I don't see his face again next year. He can't keep not showing up when we need grades!

Health: Had my eco' today. Bad news. Still useless ovaries. Now I need to show all my tests to a doctor so they can give me some meds! Maybe my ovaries will never work, but I need my hormones in check!

Trip: Have my visa in hand. Almost have my plane ticket. Still no housing. And I need to buck a bus to go from Spokane to Sandpoint. Don't really know how to do that yet. And clothes, I still need clothes!

Friends: So... I finally talked with Carol, the friend that tried to kill herself a couple of weeks ago. I was busy and she was avoiding the subject! Anyway, I manage not to show her what I really feel about what she did (STUPID MORONIC ACTION!!), and I kinda sounded wise. I did tell her about the similarities between her stupidity and Claudia's, and I think I had my point understood. She's not close to being better or even good, but I think I helped, just a little, by not cuddling her but not been harsh either.

Fandom: Just watched Yamada Tarou's ending. It was nice. I didn't love this story like some of the others I've been watching, but I liked it, it made me cry more than once, and the ending I think was pretty good. No life-changing surprise out of nowhere (though, almost, for a second there) and a lot of sibling love. It's a feel-good kinda story.
Now I'll go watch Proposal Daisakusen, hoping this one really has a happy ending, because it has been breaking my heart all damned weekend!

University: Gonna be a busy week. Presentation tomorrow. Test three days from now. Two papers to deliver. Next week is gonna be WORSE. Another paper, and two more test. The worst kind of tests.

Trip: Freaking Out. Like, physically freaking out. I'm having some kind of... mild panic attacks? Angst attacks, my mom called them. Chest hurts like hell. Still don't have housing there. Nor clothes to survive the weather.

Health: Aside of the angst attacks, I'm done with most of my testings, after spending a fortune because the public hospital is on strike. I don't know where to take my tests once they're done BECAUSE the damn hospital is on strike!

Fandom: This is OK, thankfully. Nobuta has a great fandom and I already have read AWESOME fics post-ending. I'm watching Proposal Daisakusen, that is completely heart-breaking, and Kurosagi, and it's really interesting watch the same actor in all three (four if I include Stand Up!!), all of his characters are VERY different.

Life... in general: A complete MESS. I'm gone in two weeks and I'm not even close to been prepare, damn it!

Watched NCIS, episode 4.05.

Shrink: Aren't you the couple that called about marriage counseling?
Tim: Couple? Us? Nononono!
Tony: It's OK, Timmy. Timmy, we're in a safe place. We can be ourselves here. (Tim shoves him off) We just got from Vermont, pretty this time of year...
Tim: Sorry. NCIS. Special Agents McGee, DiNozzo.
Tony: *Very* Special Agents.

I love my slashy, slashy show.

Tony: I love you, McGee.

Hee. There was even some ass-groping this week!


Been busy with the Geography Congress in my faculty. It's been fun. We've gone from Climate Change to Public Transportation and all the un-original subjects in between. It is stuff like this that make me enjoy my career so much. That and the trips to other countries. That's just awesome.

Speaking of weather, it's been hell around here. I think it's because I wont have summer months this year, I'll be in Idaho over the summer, freezing my ass off, so the weather is warming up early for me to "enjoy" it beforehand. Oh, yes, I'm completely egocentric, didn't you know that?

Anyway, had my French test today. Didn't think I did too badly. I have a huge SIG assignment to deliver next week, I should work on that.

Oh, and I had a bunch of exams done and of course the bureaucracy almost eat me alive in the process. I still have to go for the results next week, so maybe then it will finish the job. I hate my stupid health issues. They leave me more unhealthy that I already am. Damn hormones.

Oh, about the Dumbledore thing one more time... I wasn't amused by the "coming out", but I have find really entertaining the respond to that. For a moment there I thought the fandom would be quiet from now on... but of course not. Bless them in their freakishness. I complain a lot, but they are fun to watch from time to time.

So, I need help.

Have I speak here of my French class? Yes, I know. I barely speak German and Japanese and I'm already learning another language. or trying to, more exactly.

Thing is, it was a stupid thing to do and if my teacher wasn't really, really hot I wouldn't really enjoy it. She's so pretty to look at *sigh*

Anyway, I'm in it and there's nothing to do about it. Except my homework.

So, where can I find a French-speaker to whom I could write a simple paragraph about myself and he or she in return could write me about themselves back? I don't think it matters if it is from France or Canada or some African colony. I just need someone that could tell me what they do for a living and how old they are. I don't need more than that. Of course, it would be cool to meet someone long-term, but I need this really soon, so it doesn't have to be that complicated.

SVP - A l'aide, c'est urgent!

Life has been... slow-paced lately. I haven't study much. I have a hard time concentrating. I'm depressed and I don't really know why. And to make thing worse, my grandma is staying in my room... again. This time, it looks like she'll be staying until I'm gone to work in Idaho. I don't use my room much, but it's been a week and I've missed the comfort my own bed provides me. Sleeping in the living room is so... un-personal.

I need to have a couple of exams because my hormones have been acting up again. This has been a pain in the ass because I have to do them when I'm menstruating and first I was in Peru and then I didn't have any money. My last chance is go and have them done at the end of this month, because I'll be gone in december and I need something to fight the imbalance. Gods, I need to check my thyroids too. Damn it. Why only the women in the family seem to have all the medical problems? Ok, my dad isn't exactly peachy, but my brothers are healthier than a yogurt, is so not fair. Not that I want them sick, but come on, hormone problems they could have dealt with!

In other, better, news, I watched more of the stuff that tsubasa_lupin gave me, mainly Yamada Tarou Monogatari (the main song is way too catchy!) and Ookiku Furikabutte, witch, of course, I completely loved and I plan to download more episodes as soon as possible (And for the record, my new sweetheart is Tajima-kun :3).

Now I need to read that damn text for tomorrow's test. Sigh.

I'm a disaster waiting to happen.

I've know that for a while now. You know that say "if something can go wrong, it will"? That's pretty much my life sometimes. Not in the dramatic "life or dead" kinda way, thank Aslan, but in the every day "papers to deliver" kinda way.

My friends think it's kinda funny I have a black cloud fallowing me around. I joke about it too, and it helps a lot of people to feel better when I tell some of my most horrible experiences, so there's something good about it.

But this last few days... gods, it's been awful!

One of the reasons I decided to leave my last career attempt, studying Translation, was in part because of this. I couldn't deal with having problems every fucking semester to pay the university, and take my classes. Yes, something so minimal as that was driving me crazy. But you see, after three semester in a row having to do three, four, five different types of paperwork because someone, somewhere screwed up your applications, because the system failed (in five, six different occasions!), because you didn't know you needed THAT specific paper or signature or whatever, because nobody ever told you before and it only took them, like, two more semesters, to let you know... is bad for anyone's health. And that was the case for me for three YEARS while I was studying Translation.

Oh, and I'm only talking about university stuff, I won't even mention the things I had to deal with because of my health. Lets just say I've FOUR vain LESS running through my body right about now.

The thing is, three days ago I was suppose to register my classes for the next semester. But I couldn't. Of course I cound't. And when I went to ask what was the problem, not only the answer was really, really stupid, but the system failed too and there was nothing more to do. So now I don't have any classes next semester because people somewhere else haven't upload my grades of two extracurricular classes I took last semester.

Does that makes any sense for any of you?

What more can I do? Wait. Wait for the grades to be upload, or classes to begin to go back there and do three different paperworks while I go to classes I'm not listed in, where hopefully I'll get in by mid-semester, only if I deliver something somewhere just between dates placed just when I will be in Peru.

I you all wonder why I don't like to write about my real life here? It stresses me out!