I've been haunting livejournal regularly, but I just never make updates anymore it seems. Or when I do make them, they are always like I should start up dating again.

I guess that what keeps me from updating is that when I'm going to post again, I feel like I want to do this giant spewing forth of OMG THIS is what I have been doing since the last forever ago that I wrote in my journal. But when I think like that, I keep putting off writing the giant update and the list of things I was going to update about gets longer and longer.

Ug.

Also, I guess you all want to know how grad school is going for me, and I can't really answer that question because I have no idea. I am just kind of wading through a mud puddle or something. I am just getting through it day to day and I even when I try to step out of it and get some perspective (to answer people who keep asking me, "how's grad school?") I really can't get a better view or understanding. I am just doing stuff. My Japanese sucks, I'm liking Chinese, and I'm trying to squeak by in my Japanese Buddhism class. I'm behind in the reading, but at least I've got two out of three of my paper topics picked out. Our List of Topics and Sources is due next Tuesday and it seems I'm ahead of the game compared to a few of the other students. Also, when I talked to Prof. B. about what I was interested in, he thought my ideas were interesting and actually couldn't recommend too many things I should read. I was expecting him to tell me my topics were done to death and that I should pick something more unique, but apparently not many people have ever even written about what I want to write about. So, that will make investigating sources more difficult, but it made me feel like a better excuse for a grad student than how I normally feel in these everyday sloggings.

I am also constantly coming and going, which is the pain of commuting. Jason is still looking for work because no body anywhere is hiring. He's going to take the CBEST next time its offered though to be a substitute teacher. I think that will be pretty great for him; his personality would be great for handling kids or teenagers. Plus, you can pick when you want to work and it would be an ok temporary thing. He can't really get any career oriented job because he will just have to leave it in a few months anyway.

BECAUSE... we will be going to Yokohama for next year.

I mean, I still have to apply, but it is pretty much a given now that I am going to the IUC intensive language program. It's no longer "probably" or "most likely". That is the plan. A whole year, plus, most likely, the summer program too. The summer program starts in June, actually even before spring quarter finishes up.

This has created an interesting dilemma, since we were kinda, you know, planning to get married over the summer. I asked Jason if he would rather just get the legal marriage stuff done and have the party part later, but he said no. I agreed.

So, I will be getting married over spring break at the end of March.

(That should make winter quarter finals really really fun. )

Anyway, this all sounds crazy and all of a sudden to be describing it now, but actually, a lot of planning is in the works and it looks like what we had been envisioning is getting the green light. But I don't want to give too much away, so I'll tell more details later on. But right now Chinese homework is awaiting.