I got a new job!!!!

I got a new job! It will be the best job ever! I'm going to be a homework helper at the public library. I get paid pretty well for it which is awesome. I think it's a little under $12 an hour.... I'm really happy about it. I won't have to work at the convenience store much longer and that makes me happy. It will take a while for the paperwork to go through though, so it's good that I can keep my c-store job for now. Yay for multiple dollars above minimum wage and a job that's worthwhile!

I did this cause I was bored... Always bored... so draw on me k?

Dream

I took a nap and I had a dream that my mom, my grandma, and me were traveling from Australia to Louisiana by Canoe.... I don't know why... We were making a pit stop in south Africa when I woke up. I'm weird... yeah....

Back from Japan!!!!!!

I have been so busy, I haven't been able to post anything about my trip until now.... It is 5 weeks after I left the US for Japan, and now I am finally back in the states again! Yay! I had so much fun in Japan, but it really is great to be home once more. Japan is soooo different from here. I'll list some things I noticed:

USA: Most all workers look bored, hardly any look happy, and a good number look very grumpy.
Japan:Every time you enter a store they say "Irasshaimasen!" which is like "Welcome" and when they take your money or card when you pay they take it carefully with both hands and give you your change in the same careful manner. They either look happy to be working or very bored.
USA: We have a little bit of rain in the winter and it is very hot and dry in the summer. We use umbrellas a little in the rain but many just wear a big rain jacket. In the summer we wear a hat or sunscreen to protect from the sun.
Japan: Japanese rainy season is during the summer. It's hot one day and rainy the next. It's both hot and rainy at once a lot of the time and its very humid in the early summer. Japanese people always use umbrellas in the rain, and to protect from the sun they often carry parasols.
USA: It is common for girls to wear sleeveless shirts or flip flops in the summer.
Japan: I hardly saw anyone with a sleeveless shirt or flip flops in Japan. If their shirt was sleeveless, they always had a mini jacket over it or something.
USA: You see vending machines inside buildings or schools and they pretty much only have drink or small snack vending machines.
Japan: Vending machines are EVERYWHERE. They have vending machines for normal drinks, for iced coffee, for cigarettes, even for french fries and squid balls sometimes. They line the streets.
USA: There are a few convenience stores and they have very little real food. 7-11, ampm.
Japan: There are tons of convenience stores and they have plates of pretty decent food. Family mart, Lawson, 7-11, and ampm.
USA: Some people use buses, few use trains, most people drive. Some take bikes. Buses cost 90 cents no matter how many stops you go. Streets are wide for big cars.
Japan: Most everyone takes busses, trains, subways, bikes and walks to get where they need to go. Sidewalks are crowded because of this. There are bikes parked all over, with many abandoned ones. There was a 2 level bike parking structure at the university. Because of gas prices, motorcycles are popular. Streets are very small and Japanese people only take cars occasionally.
USA: Smoking is tolerated, but smoking inside restaurants and bars is not. Many non-smokers avoid secondhand smoke when possible.
Japan: Almost everyone smokes. There are smoking sections in most restaurants and ashtrays everywhere. They have special rooms for smokers in many buildings but most people in Japan are used to secondhand smoke and don't mind enough to say anything.
USA: TV has a large variety of programs. The news shows the news for the day and thats mostly it.
Japan: There is a lot of comedy on TV. A lot of the news and TV shows are filled with people eating things and exclaiming over how delicious they are.
USA: Foods from all countries.
Japan: I saw, Korean, and American food. There were a LOT of places serving soft serve ice cream cones. Every tourist trap had them They love ice cream in Japan.

Thats all for now! More later! Go look at these pictures I took.... There are lots!: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v47/xmysticalmelodyx/Japan/

Finals are OVER!

I'm going to get some blood drawn at the health center and then that's it! No more being on campus for me allll summer.... Unless I take summer school.... Which I probably will. At least I get 5 weeks away.

I just looked at it, and I passed geology class, yay! .....by 5 points... lol
Yeah I know... I cut it close... but whatever at least I got the grade.

I'm going to be on a plane to Japan on Monday. Crazy eh? Kowaii desu yo! I'm going to have a good time though I'm sure. I can't wait to go to the English club on campus, lol. Well, I still need to get properly dressed and have food and head down to the health cebter and stuff.... sooo I'm gonna go for now. Sayonara!

There's this guy...

... And this guy seems to only care enough to mention this part of the blog.
So here's my blog for today!

"Nitwit, blubber, oddment, tweak!"

I lost my snake!

I woke up and went to put some water in my ball python Cleo's dish and she wasn't there.. I picked up bothe her hides and she was under neither of them... also, I thought the screen top was a crack open when I opened it.... and I remembered her nosing at the edge of her tank before I fell asleep the night before.... so I was like "shit!" and started being very careful where I stepped in my very messy room. I picked up piles of clothes off the floor and threw them all on my bed and in hampers. I checked the tank and under her hides to make sure again that she really had gotten out. I moved some of her bedding around to check if she was buried too. With no luck there, I kept continuing to throw stuff on my bed and I got out a flashlight and started looking in dark corners... everywhere I could think she might be.

Mom said if my snake ever escaped that'd be the end of me keeping a snake... so I was reeeally worried. Once I had just finished checking behind my huge ass desk with a flashlight I glanced over at her tank .... and there she was... looking right at me like I was an idiot for not seeing her. I'm thinking maybe she wedged herself into the top of her bigger hide... which I thought was impossible for her and she's never done before... but thats the only way I think I could have missed her. I looked inside her little hide when I picked it up ... that's her usual wedging place. Oh how annoying.... I guess I have a good excuse to clean my room now though....

With that nonsense out of the way though, it's time to work on getting my geology class finished up. I gotta put my notebook togrther and do an essay. How annoying...

Geology Jeopardy

This Tuesday we had a Jeopardy type game in my geology class. I was playing in it, and one of the categories was "what's wrong with this picture?" When the thing popped up, there was a nice picture of 3 baby ball pythons hatching... There was nothing wrong with the picture at all so I was confused... then I read the separate caption underneath that said "amphibian hatching." It was soo annoying. I didn't see it until someone else had already raised their hand. I know tons about snakes... and I could have told the teacher the scientific name along with how to care for them.

I'm soo much more knowledgeable about biology it isn't even funny... I don't like physical sciences much... I was able to answer another question about animals. It asked something like "What fossil evidence do we find that cetaceans used to be land bound animals. Double points if you can name a second piece of evidence." I never heard anything about cetaceans in my geology class because I usually skip, but from other classes and studying privately. I knew obviously that cetaceans were whales and dolphins, and also that their flippers have bones in them that look like hands and they had evolved over the years from limbs. Sooo I said that, and I was right... I wasn't so sure about the other piece of evidence. I was gong to guess that the fact that they breathe air on the surface of the water is evidence. Before I could formulate it though, she moved to someone else... and they said the fossils show that their nostrils migrated upwards. That question got us 40 out of our 60 points total... but it could have gotten us 40 more... Soo unfair...