still alive!
Jan. 22nd, 2003 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ximenI realized that it's been sort of a while since I had last posted, or been online, or really gotten a chance to talk to anyone from Atlanta other than my parents and Max, so I finally got around to posting. Besides, I have a study I'm volunteering for in half an hour, and it doesn't seem worth the trouble of walking home. So, let's see... Alexis' life right now...
I gave blood today... the vampires got to me. But they were very nice, and I didn't pass out this time, so all is well. I found out I share a blood type with 6% of the population. I even have a button now to prove it!
I have a roommate! Her name is Erika, and I met her through a friend. I really like her. She has similar tastes in anime, so we've been swapping DivX CDs and manga, and she even provided my anime club with the rest of RahXephon, earning the two of us the eternal gratitude of Lena-chan, whose boyfriend in the procurement officer. Also, she has a cellphone, so there arne't any arguments over the phone line. And she has cats! Two gray and white neko-kyoudai, named Tip and Pot Pie. Pot Pie's all hyper-cute, and Tip is all soft and plushy and lazy. I like them both a lot too. Erika also has a large stash of ramen she is willing to share. Korean ramen is weird stuff, very spicy and with bits of what I think are vegetable floating in it.
Food is somewhat of an issue right now, due to my complete lack of money, but Lena-chan's meal plan lets her share food, and Isaac sneaks stuff out of the dining hall, and Julian keeps fruit around and Erika sometimes brings food back from the hospital dinners (she works at the hospital) so I haven't had to go grocery shopping yet. Of course, I've been eating mostly cookies and muffins and ramen, but it's keeping me alive. I need to find a job, quickly... if only all the on-campus jobs weren't work-study, and most of the neighborhood jobs on-campus... I may end up waiting tables or some such.That would keep me fed!
Money is another issue, as is the okaasan. She's sick still, and showing no signs of getting better, and spending more and more time at the UJ, which is worrisome. The whole mess has been weighing on my mind for a while now, but it looks like there may be a solution of sorts. My Uncle Dan has decided that my mother has gone on lon g enough without family support and is enlisting his parents, brothers, and sisters to make her go to a hospital and get better. He also talked my grandparents out of paying the tuition I still owe from last quarter, and he's going to make my mother do the finaid paperworkand get it in in time. I am relieved.
Classes are hard, especially Japanese. If I don't start woprking harder at kanji, I could fail this quarter, as I watch my kanji test grades cheerfully plunge into the toilet. But, I will keep trying hard, and hopefully do well.
I've been a little sad and frustrated these past couple of days, but overall, things are going well. I have friends here now, and a roommate, and Shadowrun and D&D (I named my monk after you, neechan!) to distract me and keep me from spending all my time inside fearing the cold. And it is cold here, but with three layers and a hat and gloves it's bearable, so long as you don't have any pressing need to be able to feel your face.
So, overall, things are going well, if not perfectly. I really miss everyone in Atlanta, my neechan and Mel-chan, Drrmien and Jeremy and the neko-tachi and everyone else. So come visit! Okay, survey time, where I get paid five dollars for filling out 20 minutes worth of forms. Not the most steady of incomes, but it could be worse. Ja ne!
I gave blood today... the vampires got to me. But they were very nice, and I didn't pass out this time, so all is well. I found out I share a blood type with 6% of the population. I even have a button now to prove it!
I have a roommate! Her name is Erika, and I met her through a friend. I really like her. She has similar tastes in anime, so we've been swapping DivX CDs and manga, and she even provided my anime club with the rest of RahXephon, earning the two of us the eternal gratitude of Lena-chan, whose boyfriend in the procurement officer. Also, she has a cellphone, so there arne't any arguments over the phone line. And she has cats! Two gray and white neko-kyoudai, named Tip and Pot Pie. Pot Pie's all hyper-cute, and Tip is all soft and plushy and lazy. I like them both a lot too. Erika also has a large stash of ramen she is willing to share. Korean ramen is weird stuff, very spicy and with bits of what I think are vegetable floating in it.
Food is somewhat of an issue right now, due to my complete lack of money, but Lena-chan's meal plan lets her share food, and Isaac sneaks stuff out of the dining hall, and Julian keeps fruit around and Erika sometimes brings food back from the hospital dinners (she works at the hospital) so I haven't had to go grocery shopping yet. Of course, I've been eating mostly cookies and muffins and ramen, but it's keeping me alive. I need to find a job, quickly... if only all the on-campus jobs weren't work-study, and most of the neighborhood jobs on-campus... I may end up waiting tables or some such.That would keep me fed!
Money is another issue, as is the okaasan. She's sick still, and showing no signs of getting better, and spending more and more time at the UJ, which is worrisome. The whole mess has been weighing on my mind for a while now, but it looks like there may be a solution of sorts. My Uncle Dan has decided that my mother has gone on lon g enough without family support and is enlisting his parents, brothers, and sisters to make her go to a hospital and get better. He also talked my grandparents out of paying the tuition I still owe from last quarter, and he's going to make my mother do the finaid paperworkand get it in in time. I am relieved.
Classes are hard, especially Japanese. If I don't start woprking harder at kanji, I could fail this quarter, as I watch my kanji test grades cheerfully plunge into the toilet. But, I will keep trying hard, and hopefully do well.
I've been a little sad and frustrated these past couple of days, but overall, things are going well. I have friends here now, and a roommate, and Shadowrun and D&D (I named my monk after you, neechan!) to distract me and keep me from spending all my time inside fearing the cold. And it is cold here, but with three layers and a hat and gloves it's bearable, so long as you don't have any pressing need to be able to feel your face.
So, overall, things are going well, if not perfectly. I really miss everyone in Atlanta, my neechan and Mel-chan, Drrmien and Jeremy and the neko-tachi and everyone else. So come visit! Okay, survey time, where I get paid five dollars for filling out 20 minutes worth of forms. Not the most steady of incomes, but it could be worse. Ja ne!
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Hiya!
Date: 2003-01-24 01:38 am (UTC)In other news, Chobits! I was loaned the series (anime, not manga) on Friday and said, "well, there goes my weekend." It's a good series. The ending, for some reason, reminded me of Video Girl Ai. I think it's the whole "We're gonna explain our take on what love is as our last episode" thing.
Kanji is trouble for me, too, although not nearly so much. I have little to complain about; I am doing poorly because I am working poorly, not because the material is difficult. It is not, yet.
My class on Western Meditation is interesting. Apparently, the West had a clear, well-practiced and fairly well-developed tradition of meditation, including techniques for mental cultivation, up until the 1700s when Descartes brought Reason in as a dominating mode of seeing the world and screwed it all up.
Anyway. Check my DJ for what kinds of things are going on with me, if you haven't already. If you e-mail me your phone number again, I'll remember to call you!