Hey, its 1 in the morning - I'm tired, but I'll post something:

- You know something weird, is that I DID have a crush on a teacher in 8th grade: Her name was Ms. Griffith [Before she got married - after it was Ms. Murphy] and I remember telling Sarah that I thought she was really pretty, but at the time I thought she was really hott. So I guess I was/am a freak - even back in 8th grade....I wonder whatever happend to her. And OH OH, does anyone remember how we all though her and Mr. Sheldon were together? I swear that guy was gay - like Mr. Anderson (shivers....he was a seriously troubled man)

* And life is going good - finished up Biology last thursday, finished up the last of transfer applications Friday, and watching ANOTHER house for a co-worker this week. Its pretty cool, getting ready to move to Sasebo in like 2 months - my rents are really freaking out, but I'm hip - its not like we haven't moved before...

$ My hair is mad long, haven't gotten a hair-cut in 2 months - but I have been shaving more, so I don't look entirely like a drug-addict or wife-beater.

^ I am working on my laptop now - they fixed it and returned my precious to me. I think if I ever broke my kids, I would just give them away as defective...does anyone see anything wrong with this?

# I don't think I'm going to be able to make it to MUN this year, its like 3 days out of the week, and I'm in the middle of training my replacement and working on a butt-load of stupid crap at work - some jack-ass stateside has been sending us misroutes and I'm the guy who has to take care of it, oh joy...

@ There...I posted an entry...none of you can complain for another 2 weeks after, after which I will wait another 2 weeks before posting another entry....so I do post entries, they just come very, very, very slowly.

Today was a good day - woke up and ate Eggo waffles and scrambled eggs with Mamiko [Pretty funny because Eggo in Japanese means English - so she was confused - thinking that I was making English waffles...which really made NO sense at all]

And then we went to Yokohama, where we were going to go ice-skating [and probably kill myself] but it was closing in 30 minutes, so we held off and decided to go shopping instead. Well, SHE went shopping, I more or less tagged along - learning more Japanese and trying to figure out the ideology behind some of the Japanese fashion: sigh she never understands my baggy khakis and I never understand her mismatched "coordinated" wardrobe, but that's culture for you.

And then we ate at El Toritos (A Mexican place if you can't figure that out by the name - meaning The "Toritos" - as in, rhymes with Doritos - another example of Americanized Mexican food in Japan) It was REALLY good - I ate a 2 kg Chimachunga - so basically a pound of rice/beef/and beans. Lol - I feel fat now.

To those of you who keep track of this page:

1] Raise your hand if you think admiring your Irish writing teacher is rather kinky/freaky? [All hands go up] See, there we have it ladies and gentlemen - it is rather kinky to think that your college professor is hott, ha ha ha - no problem, I had a crush on a substitute teacher once (Oh gosh, did I just say that on xanga?)

2] Natalie, Natalie, Natalie - Have we not gone through this conversation once before? You're a LIFE-LONG friend and I'm not going to grow so distant that I will wake up some day an old man with a long beard and will wonder where you went in life. I'm going to wake up some day as an old man with a long beard and know exactly where you are in life and will probably be chastised by you for having a long beard - because I figure when we're that old, we 'll have some cool holographic e-mails or something and you can actually SEE how long it is. But this is all beside the point - what I'm trying to say is that you DON"T need to change. If you weren't there to balance me out at times, I probably would have overdosed on caffeine and lack of sleep a long long long time ago. So yeah, if you change Brian's world gets turned upside-down and Brian's brain is turned into mashed-potato. I have to stay smart so I can earn a 6-digit salary to support you and Alvin someday right?

Alvin - Can we say that comments are comments and digital novels are supposed to be published in zip-format? Lol, I have never seen any comments so long in my whole xanga-career...ha ha ha, that sounded dorky. Anyway, you know how this works - I post new information, you read new information, you post REALLY long comment that I have to read, and then repeat. What part of this don't you understand? Sigh...ha ha ha, I'll get to your site someday, no worries.

Sarah - Oh MAN! I thought your WTF?! was one of those angry/upset ones...lol, this is one of the problems with posting only xanga comments, is that you never know the emotions behind a comment. Well, sometimes you do, but when you're guessing the emotions of someone who lives a couple HUNDRED thousand miles away, its a bit difficult at times. But no worries, like I told Natalie [I'm sure you've read this entire posting] is that I'm going to be an old man with a long beard and will know where all of my good-best-awesome-cool-life-long friends are in life, and they will all chastise me for my long-long beard (which I will think is mad-sexy in my delusional old age) So yeah, no worries, just keep on reading this site, and your phone will ring and it will be me - and I won't have a long beard just yet.

And to the rest of you who have actually read this FAR down the comment [An irony considering I just told Alvin not to write novels] write something, say something, tell me something, and I'm sure I'll come up with something of significance in response. Until you write back, I'll never know that you exist.

Okay - So I guess that some of you were confused - the entry from 4 weeks ago said that I was just hanging out with her and then the entry from 4 days ago says that I'm going out with her - YEAH, definetely a big jump in the nature of the relationship. To make a long story short, I've known her ever since I started working at the warehouse, and then I really started to get to know her in the last 3 months maybe - first as I changed jobs, and then more as I got help from Alvin which allowed me to actually take a break every now and then. After Alvin left, her and I started to hang out more - just as friends, and then I really started to like her, and then I came to the realization that I either had to ask her out then and there, or would never ask her out before I left Japan. And I'm not the one to let opportunity pass me by, so I asked her out.

I know I said alot about not liking anyone here, and waiting until getting back to the US to date - but as a really good friend discussed with me: you really just can't stop these feelings from happening. And that's what I was trying to do - was trying to prevent myself from liking a great person who likes me back. I realized that I was being dumb by forcing myself into trying to wait, when I really did want to be with her. So I do apologize to those of you who are confused - all I can say is that I am happy now, and I regret giving the changes ALL at once. I'll try to keep things more up to date!!

Natalie + Alvin - You may not think it, but I do miss you guys & I'm not avoiding a phone call or anything - but ever since Alvin left and since getting the second job, I'm either working or outside the house. Feels more like high school lifestyle than ever - going to sleep around 12:00 typically, waking up 5:30 - non-stop lifestyle, the kind that both of you warned me about, but the kind that I love. I really don't know what to say, other than that I miss you, and I'll get around to an e-mail/phone call sooner or later.

But Alvin - I talked with Ms. Gemma about the W-2 and she said that it should be forwarded to your house, so one of us is going to have to talk with your rents about it. And I'm probably going to mail some stuff during lunch break next week, I'll tell the exact date later. And dinner-meeting with Joel/Mamiko was cool, her and him get along GREAT and he thinks she's cool, and her likewise.

Monika: What does "wow" mean? Lol - is that a good response or a negative one?

Aimee: Where's the comment you were supposed to leave congratulating me? I mean come on now!! You did encourage me to go out with her in the last comments before...where's the congratulations?!? J/K - I know that you are busy and have some "things" to worry about with your special person in life, and I'm hoping that things got/get better.

Chelsea: It would still be cool to meet up with you, just have to work out my schedule somehow - too far in advance to tell if I will have work/class/other work or what not, will have to tell you later in the year. [Don't be a stranger huh? Seems that I've been one to mostly everyone...sigh]

Sarah + Colin: Does all the stuff above make any sense? Sigh....I'm not so great with this long-distance communication thing...getting better at it.

Hey - Its been a mad-crazy 2 weeks: alot has happened - inventory at work, a test in biology, dad went to and came back from guam, been in my own house for an accumulated 2 days out of 14, and probably the best of all: Started dating Mamiko.

Ha ha ha, alot huh? But I'm loving it all, inventory was hard, but I got good overtime. And class is sometimes boring/slow, but he's a really cool teacher and I'm remembering alot of my old freshman biology stuff, so its easier.

And I've been going out ALOT more with Mamiko - Shibuya, Yokohama, Kamiooka - its been really fun and I'm definetely happy with her. Also learning more Japanese - he he he, trying to at least.

Well, I suppose you're tired of hearing a summary now, but that's all I really have time for. I would write some e-mails, but I'm tired and I'm trying to type on my rent's computer because I broke my laptop [again] - so I have to wait 4 weeks before I get to see my baby again...until then, the entries are gonna be kinda far apart-as if that's anything new?

Talk with you all later.