I have a white psp from Japan. And other news.

Biggest news as of late of course: I got a white psp from J-land for my birthday. Well, to be more accurate, my mom asked me what I wanted for my birthday cause she could think of shite, then I ordered it online using her credit card. It's fantastic.

Also, I've decided to make some changes to the blog. By this I mean that I will actually be posting with some decent level of regularity, and I will be adding crap. Crap like pics. I've been playing around with the idea of a photoblog or even a (occassional) video blog, but these ideas are mainly aimed towards the future (i.e., once I'm in Japan and have interesting stuff to photograph and comment on). Coincidentally, a guy whose blog has somewhat recently captured my interest (thanks partially to recommendation from Nick) has changed the layout of his site (which is quite popular by the way, and deservedly so) and begun podcasting. Here's to Yongfook for trying something new (and succeeding at it; he's an entertaining fellow). So at any rate, check back for some new crap some time in the possibly near future. Or don't.

On a side note, I returned from the holidays at my parents house to find that my self-addressed, stamped envelope which I included with JET application has still not arrived to give me confirmation that they actually received the (humongous) thing. I'm going to look around for my FedEx stub tomorrow and see if I can check the tracking for that bastard just to make sure it actually made it there. They were pretty swift about getting Nick's confirmation to him, but I don't think Anthony got his yet. Maybe it's different depending on if you're applying for ALT or CIR (Nick applied for ALT, Anthony and I applied for CIR). Maybe they seperated the apps into piles of ALTs and CIRs and forgot to mail out the CIR confirmations. Maybe my application was never delivered. It'd be nice if crap went the way it was supposed to at least most of the time. But I can't be selfish here I guess; Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream too, and his hasn't come true yet, so I'll get in line.

Yikes.

Finally, perhaps due to some measure of inspiration from surfing Yongfook all night, I'd like to start rating beer because I drink a lot of it. And not the crappy kinds. That's right, the ones that come in the big fancy bottles. So there. For the record, I do not consider myself a beer connoisseur, just a well-informed, better-judgement-than-you drinker. I mean cultured. Whatever. I have a lot of material to work with already since I was home for three weeks. My dad and I went to the fancy liquor store in Carmel (did anyone else hear Hamilton County got highest average income or some shit...again? psht) upwards of four times to get wine, beer, and spirits, and the total was always five digits (including decimals). I'm not bragging, but we like to get good shit, and lots of it.

Well I've written so much about what I am going to write about in the future (or some kind of alternate future in another dimension with weird versions of all of us) that I don't feel like writing anymore tonight. But cheer up, you have a lot to look forward to...assuming I don't forget/get too lazy to do this crap. Uh...I'm heading back to the psp.