I'm still alive...

...not that it matters anyways, no one is reading this.

So it's been a long time since I posted anything here. I don't know why I bother though, no one except for the people I know look here and only when I tell them to.

Not too much has happened since my last post. It's my sophomore year here at UNT, and besides the drop my GPA took after second semester last year, nothing too disappointing or horrible has happened in my life. My best friend Lauren left for Austin for her first year at UT, so I'm slightly disappointed that she won't be in Dallas to hang out when I come home every once in awhile. But I'm pretty sure the amount of time she spends online (which is now starting to reduce ever so slightly with all the parties going on every day down there) well makes up for it.

I love my schedule this semester! I still have a music theory class ass-raping me at 8 in the morning, but after this semester I will be done with theory and another boring music class. After that all I will have to worry about is the advanced music history courses I have to take, but they will probably just be lecture classes so I'm not that worried. My sociology class is also pretty boring. I mean, when we get into discussion about specific things that I can relate to its interesting, but the rest of the class is pretty much a bunch of "because different levels of society treat their kids differently...people do stuff." Then the professor will usually go off into something even less interesting and equally unfunny. Then after that remind us that he's mainly an anthropologist, not a sociologist, and that most of us are in this class because it was the only thing available. Even when are talking about things I am interested in (i.e. parent's raising their kids and not letting the media do it), I am usually seeing it all through one half-opened bloodshot eye. Although now that I am staying awake with energy drinks, I can see he is a pretty cool teacher, he hitchhiked across the country just for kicks when he was younger.

As much as I hate that class, its all made good by the fact that I GET TO TAKE JAPANESE!!!!!!!!!! I finally convinced my parents to let me use it as my foreign language requirement, which means I will be taking 4 semesters of it, just below the advanced level course. Learning Japanese is like the greatest most funnest thing ever. Not only is it fun because I am actually learning every day, (unlike Spanish which due to its Latin base feels like an alternate spelling of English most of the time) but it's even more fun to speak. It also feels a little simpler than English once you get the hang of it, there's significantly less weird rules to take into account. Hardt Sensee is an awesome teacher too. It's funny that she's white bread American, not Japanese, but we don't ever feel like we are getting a watered down version of what "Nihongo" (japanese in japanese) sounds like spoken. Every day in class feels like were not taking a foreign language course, but like we are learning about important aspects of how not to offend people in Japanese society, and by the end of the day we know how to not forget the one thing we learned. By the time we get done with the chapter, I feel like I know everything I was taught like the back of my hand. It felt a little bit like Mr. Rubio from when I was at Booker T., for those who were lucky enough to have him.

This summer there is an opportunity for me to go and learn 2nd level Japanese actually in Japan, a place I thought I would never be able to travel to. A chance to visit the coolest country on earth and get college credit for it is something I'd rather not miss. I better start saving up money for Akihabara.

Another good thing about my schedule is that it leaves me time to actually use the gym this year. I got my older sister to help me get started with a full body workout routine, which I started and eventually lost track of. Now I just basically do every muscle group, in whatever order I feel like doing. The crazy thing is I'm actually starting to see progress! Small progress, but progress nonetheless.

I decided to not let what happened last year in regard to a social life happen again this year. If you need a refresher on what happened, here you go...there was no social life last year. I was so focused on getting used to being independent and doing homework, I realized by the end of second semester that I was leaving with no one I could call a new friend. When I started this semester, I said to myself "this year things will be different" and now I do my homework in the lobby, find regular people to sit with in my classes who I can talk to, and just generally be more social. It's working slowly, but I don't really want to try rushing things if I want to find friends (or girls) that will last for a long time, seeing as how college goes straight into real life. The biggest roadblock I feel like I face right now is that usually a lot of people make their friends in the early weeks of their first year. Those people find other people, and eventually there are many little groups of friends throughout the school. That's not how I roll, I always found the people I got along with the best in later years after I had met pretty much everyone. I didn't find them in elementary/middle school until about 7th grade, and I didn't find the kick-ass friends I have now until late late junior year at Booker T. Though considering how awesome my friends from high school are, when I eventually find some cool people to hang out with here, they will just as awesome if not even more awesome. (No offense guys.)

I'll try to keep this blog more active, but I can't guarantee anything. I'll even try reviewing some games for fun, but I usually start that process and give up because I don't even know what to start with.

Until then, here's a fucking insane but completely hilarious commercial for nuts that I saw during the premiere of Heroes monday. I laughed my ass off when I first saw it.