So....I had Utada tickets. I was happy.

As of yesterday, I now have no Utada tickets and an emptiness in my soul.
Apparently, due to an 'administration error' (i.e. we can't count syndrome) Utada's London concert was overbooked, and I don't make the cut to get tickets. LIFE IS UNFAIR. I now have to survive my January/February tests without anything to look forward to. :(((

On the plus side, yesterday's butler/sluter fest (6 hours of back to back Mei-Chan no Shitsuji) with the girlies is enough to lift anyone's spirits, if only to crash slightly when you realise a) No one in the real world could have legs as good as Mei and b) you are not attending a hot butler school. Only slightly though, the cheeriness stays with you.
Next drama to introduce to the uneducated masses : Kimi wa Petto. :D

(If anyone can find me a MatsuJun in a box and ship it to me for Christmas, I'll be eternally grateful.)

Happy Birthday Oh-chan too ^_^

Seriously, second year is killing me. Slowly but surely killing me, with it's relentless onslaught of kanji, reading, kanji I can't read but should, homework I don't understand and bloody Keigo (asdfghhjklfkeigo.I hate you).

On the plus side, this means Japan in LESS THAN A YEAR.

Provided that I last that long. I have to last that long, thinking about all the fun stuff I can do there is the only thing getting me through the homework.

That and the Arashi concert DVDs I've borrowed. Educational, don't you know.

I'm finally nineteen! Well, I'm now nineteen and two days old, because I was too lazy to post any sooner.
(I've actually been too lazy to post since June, but there you go. Let's not dwell on my failings.)

No, nineteen feels no different to eighteen, except for the few conversations that I had on my actual birthday with older relatives trying to make me depressed by reminding me that next August I'll have lived for two decades and that my teenage life will be well and truly behind me. Not that that's too much of a hardship, my teenage life has been extraordinarily uneventful. Where were all the hook-ups and break-ups and angst? I told my dad that I didn't think much of my teenage years, as all I did ws go to school, which led him to complain that I had achieved a lot. Yeah, Dad? Examples?

I got into grammar school, I got good GCSEs, I passed my A levels, I realised my dream of studying Japanese, I passed first year, I'm a year closer to studying abroad.

Have you noticed the pattern? All of my so called 'achievements' are linked to school. Apparently, my dad doesn't know how to provide evidence that will help him to win an argument. Oh well. Hopefully nineteen will be some fun. (Mum got depressed thinking that I might be abroad on my 20th birthday - me moving to Japan is still the thing of which she will not speak. Annoying, because I want to do the whole 'lets look at Japanese universities!' with her continuously from now on.)

Also, revision and work is not going so well. The only revision I've been doing is through watching dramas and learning the lyrics to new J-Pop. So far I've finished The Quiz Show (awesome with angsty Sho, though I probably should have watched the first series....meh.) and am only a couple of episodes away from the end of Atashinchi no Danshi, with my love for it ever growing. I also finished watching the finale of Celeb to Binbo Taro (yeah, I'm late with that) and was underwhelmed. I still love it, but the ending was even more disappointing than Hana Kimi when it came to romance. Yeah, they admitted that they loved each other, but not even a stupid lip bump of a kiss? Peh. Scariest thing of the summer - I actually really like a Morning Musume song. One that wasn't forced on to me by Tats. One that I think she actually may dislike. It's very odd.

I'm only on chapter 10 of The Tale of Genji, it's so sloooooow. And I can't get past the fact that he's a little bit rapey, not the amazing suitor all the characters are trying to get me to see. From now on I need to do the heavy duty work, seeing as I can't remember any kanji and scary Welcome Back test is very, very, very close :S

And I got a tablet, yay! So the revision plan is actually going to go out of the window as I try to sketch with it in a way that doesn't make me look like a blind person on a cocktail of drugs.

And I miss everyone :( Summer is lonely when everyone decides to go home for the free food. And parental love, of course.

So, Tats has abandoned me to help children at summer camp in America. Yes I feel betrayed, this is dorama season!
(Joking, joking...though she is missing my 19th birthday >.>)

What happens when I have no revision to do and no one to caps lock with?

I go to a Britney concert. That's right. BRITNEY SPEARS.
I was given a ticket for freeeeeeee which is always the best price, and had very few expectations of the show.

OMGILOVEBRITNEY.

Yes, that was my reaction upon leaving. Epicness was achieved in that concert and I have no idea why.
I'm even starting to regret the fact that I turned down a t-shirt buying opportunity, that is how much I enjoyed myself.

Very self-explanatory.
We are now free.
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
For three whole months.
(Aside from the self-inflicted studying in preparation for September resists, but at the moment those shall not be thought of.)

We celebrated in the only possible way - binging ourselves silly on okonomiyaki followed by a trip to the Japan Centre to buy shiny ikemen magazines of hotness.
Then home again to download lots of music and dorama to last the summer.
No, the irony of celebrating freedom from the study of Japanese by eating, buying and listening to Japanese stuff is not lost on us.
It just makes the whole thing all the more sweeter.

So, we are down one listening thing, one oral/writing combo and one epic fail of a reading/grammar exam. So far consensus has been that exams are very, very painful.

( Today's mantra is 'Just three more, just three more' )

Today my new hdd arrived, a week early. UBER YAYZ. Now I've got space in time for Smile this week :D (Flaily Matsujun shall be mine!) And the next episode of The Quiz Show is the first thing being downloaded onto it, so in about an hour (if my stupid laptop will settle on a time...) I shall have more creepy nom-worthy Sho too.

Which is totally revision for tomorrow. The みんな exercises are apparently too slow to be indicators of what the actual listening exam shall sound like, so I've had to progress onto that well known revision tool of the Jdrama. And if the Quiz Show isn't enough, I'll just have to watch the HYD film again. I want to pass my exam that badly.

I need to stop watching Coffee Prince now too, because Korean will in no way help me, but it's so cute! Adorable hugs and stares are in abundance (though I swear the episode 6 hug would be totally uncomfortable irl, seeing as Eun-Chan's head was at an impossible angle. But I'll roll with it.)

..............But I found myself thinking, when did it become exam season?! I swear I should have like three more months or something, this isn't fair. At all.

So, as per my prediction, epic test was EPIC, EPIC FAIL.
And that's not an over-reaction from a geek dropping from 95% to 90%. That is the genuine reaction to a mark that won't get me in next year. Crap. So, the answer has to be, study more. Ikkenmei ganbarimasu!

Hahaha, I haven't decided to follow that yet though - it's drama season! Too much to watch to be bothered over revision (......well, revision will kick in soon, but I need the ikemen to get me started).

( Yay for the ikemen! )

I am in pain. And that pain is called 'Japanese mock exam revision'.
Problem is, it's not even pain that will go away after tomorrow, because it shall then be replaced by a bigger pain, known affectionately as 'Japanese final exam revison - OhGodwhathaveIletmyselfinforsurelyitwouldhavebeeneasiertostudymedicinethanthis.'

Yay!

Happily, I have Tats to take my mind off of this occasionally with ikemen scans that render me unable to do anything, let alone study. Yay for msn sharing! And a trip to Disney World, Florida (that I know everyone is jealous of :P) almost makes up for the pain that awaits me tomorrow.

Almost, but not quite.

So, first ever LJ post - and it's only been, what, a year or two since I got this account?

I am so awesome. ¬.¬

I don't know why I decided to actually start writing on this, seeing as I won't actually have anyone reading it, but there you go. I'm actually putting off doing any Japanese revision and writing an essay that I have no idea what it's actually about. Definitely a good starting point. I haven't even written the title yet, which is a new low for me.

On the other hand, I like to blame my procrastination on all of the things that are around to distract me. Jdoramas a-plenty (Uta no Oniisan, Love Shuffle....so good!) , lots of new music and a day spent trying to realise my musical dreams on singstar and rockband with some friends.

I don't think I have a career in music, but it's nice to dream.

If only a guitar was controlled by coloured buttons. I don't think I'd be very good at it anyway, but I might be passable. On the slow songs. With not a lot of guitar stuff. Yeah. Still, 100% singing Panic at the Disco's 'Nine in the afternoon'. And that's not even one of my favourites. I felt really good about that.

Until I remembered that I was meant to be spending the day revising. Ah.