susie said I don't update enough

But honestly, there's not much to tell. I came home. I've seen some friends and picked up some hours at "Chicken". Some things have changed, some haven't, I've seen some people I never wanted to see again, and the person I was most anxious to see appeared to never want to see me again. You know, the usual. It's a weird place to be, home.

I just applied for 13 jobs online. I've accidentally decided to narrow the search down to China for now, maybe after this I'll do a new country every year. It took too long to get all my documents digitized and the positions in Japan went to other people. I wanted to cry just a little bit when I got that e-mail, my first real, official rejection. But it's like acting, right? You get 1 out of every 100 you go for or something like that? It's still exciting, especially now that I'm really going to buckle down and start working on my Mandarin Chinese! Hopefully I don't get that one job in Hong Kong (they speak Cantonese) or Mongolia. I'm really dreaming of Beijing or Shanghai, a big city with lots to distract me from here.

I'm pretty pumped tonight because I get to spend all day tomorrow with my broski, Keenan. We're eating at IHOP! Tonight, I was showing him pictures of Chinese kindergarteners, and I misheard him and thought he called them "japandas". It's kinda cute.