Hisashiburi!

"w00t!" is the sound Skuld makes when she's back in Japan. :D

Yup yup yup, Skuld has hauled her ass back to Japan. ^_^ I'm currently sitting at the same desk I sat at last year, and it's weird because it feels like very little has changed. :3 I'm glad I'm in extra early today, the room is completely deserted so I have some time for my thoughts.

It's really nice to be back here in Osaka. I still get funny looks cause I dress completely like a foreigner (short shorts, tank top, bandana--things that no self-respecting Japanese girl would ever wear) and I carry my bag around which has a million anime keychain danglies on it, I still have trouble understanding my labmates when they talk fast, but all in all, it's great. Five of the guys (Ikezoe-san, Yoshiya-san, Mikio-san, Takahiro-san, and Seiji-kun) picked me up from Osaka Itami airport last night, and the first thing they did was give me a straw hat. ^_^ I even think it's the official One Piece straw hat. I was so happy to see those guys (and get a straw hat, since I left mine in Boston by mistake. :3 I'm such a bad Luffy. *sob*). It's nice to see familiar faces, talk casually about things, and go to crowded kaitenzushi places. I will really miss these guys when I go. ^_^

But the meantime...! I am here! :D *rawr* So all you Osaka/Kansai peeps have to hang out with me now. X3 I will terrorize the general area with my horrendous gaijin-ness. :3 *fufufu*

*sighs* And my goldfish I caught at the kingyou sukui last year has grown so large. :D And everything in lab still almost seems the same. Familiarity makes me comfortable, makes me feel at home.

The Last Hurrah on Friday night was great. ^_^ I got to see nearly everybody one last time, and I even got to see Twig and Lunar for the first time. :D I finished the card and got my Sunset T-shirt I've been wanting for years, and I went home and chilled with my buds on Mario Party and Mario Kart. ^_^ I got pillaged and plundered by Cocoa, who graciously accepted my stuff so I don't have to deal with it.

The plane flight was long and boring, I think was traveling straight for about 28 hours, including plane flights and layovers. Luckily I got the superpower of being able to sleep at anywhere at any time, so I have no jetlag, and I was only minimally exhausted. The in-flight movies were kind of bad, the only two watchable things were Million Dollar Baby (which is one of those things you see only once, because it's too depressing to watch it a second time) and The Phantom of the Opera, which I am now thoroughly sick of. (You would be too if it was the only thing you had on a 14 hour flight.) Met a cute girl sitting next to me, who was into anime and Phantom too and got her Livejournal name. (Which I guess now is almost synonymous to getting somebody's number? X3 Haha.)

I tried to write fanfic, but I guess the plane gives me no inspiration, as it drains me of just about everything. =_=;; Luckily, I won't be flying for another couple of months, so my sense of airplanes-as-adventures can have time to renew itself.

Anyhoos, to all you Japan peeps, SKULD IS BACK! So drop me a line and let's meet up. ^_^ ~<3