Hey dudes and dudettes!

I can't believe how long this most recent hiatus lasted... I feel like I've gotten my spark back and I can actually start drawing again. I need a new ID, obviously XD I'm now 21 and totally legal. Woo!

Summer has been great; it went by really fast because I was working the whole time, but I finally got my denshi jishou! That's an electronic dictionary for those of you who don't speak Japanese. It's really neat, totally worth the $340 I spent on it and the case XD it will save my butt when I'm in Japan next year.

Evan surprised me by deciding to take Japanese this year in college. His dad ruined it by telling me over dinner; Evan was planning to hide it until mid-semester so that he could start speaking to me and scare the crap out of me. It would have been hilarious, but I'm still really happy.

Uhhh, what else is new... last semester I participated in a competition for Japanese students called J-Cup (CSU had three teams out of the eight or nine there, mine placed third and the other two took second and fourth, so we did really well.) Four of us from the competition have grown super close and hung out a lot after the competition was over, and we still did over the summer. We're going to organize workout nights and DDR parties when we get back XD

Speaking of DDR, (one of the four J-Cup peeps) introduced me to Nickel-A-Play arcade, and we've been going with Andrew (second of the four J-Cup peeps) to play super cheap DDR a lot these past few weeks XD it's super.

In all, life is awesome. This semester I'm taking 20 credits, which include marching band, an internship, and a TAing position, so we'll see how well I do. It's my last year in college already I can't believe it. Well, till next time! I'm going to work on my new ID now

-Edie