News for the end of June

Hey everyone. Sorry for not being here for quite a while. However, there's a lot to catch up on, and even more that might be coming. Anyway, here's the last couple weeks in a nutshell:

16th - 17th: Kyushoren(Whose kanji, my mistake, should be 九唱蓮). Bunny ears. A seriously twisted version of Alice in Wonderland. Rapid-fire choir songs. Two Six-hour bus rides with the most fun group this side of the International Date Line. Meeting choirs from all over Kyushu. In short: Pure win. Check flickr for related pictures.

18th - 22nd: School week. Normal boredom and crap. Putting off doing my work until the latest I can (and I have witnesses). Choir rehearsals - All first-years (me included) are thrown through a quick conducting class, to direct the group in a week and a half. I get to direct a drinking song - たのしい。 (trans: fun)

23rd - 24th: Not much for the weekend. Skype marathon - 3 and a half hours in total. For those that don't have it yet, I'll give you the name, so we can talk too. Big news: I was accepted to my first big programming project. Yes, even when I'm not studying CS, I'm still programming. So there. I'll be working on a library for inter-process communication between a client and the Google Data API. More info (for those who've understood what I meant by that): linky.

25th - 今(now): Presentations: 日本語の文学(Japanese Lit.), and 日本語の強化(Japanese Culture). Culture presentation turned out a bit short, but there's only so much you can do on Idioms and Proverbs without getting too boring. Posted code to Subversion for the Gdata-ruby package. Started work on the frontend for Blogger (Which I'm planning on using for my Software Engineering project).

Coming up: I just checked my bank account: still above $900. That means: TRIP! To where,　I'm not sure yet. Many places have been mentioned: Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto, Kobe, Kumamoto, Sendai, and of course, who could forget Tokyo. Make a vote of it: where should I go next?

There you are: the quick rundown. If you want more detail, I'll have to be persuaded for it. Right now, I've had a pretty long day, and have been out of it for the most part. Not quite 100% right now - I have a bit of a cold(or, in Japanese: 少しの風邪ある).

Talk to you all later. Hope to see some comments.

そのひとがうたうとき (When the people sing)

久しぶり. It's been a while.

Well then, everyone, what's been going on at home? It's been a while since I've posted anything that really has any weight.

First off, Happy birthday everyone. Seems that more birthdays happen at the beginning of June than the entire rest of the year. So: Happy birthday:

Mom, Melissa Schultz (1st)
Alice/Emily Schmidt, Sean Wilfong (3rd)
Scott Jacobs (6th)
Aaron Allison (7th), Myself (7th)
Calvin (8th)
Laura (10th)

And Happy 25th Anniversary to my parents (4th)

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Whew. That took a bit of effort. Continuing right along.

Things have been pretty good in the world. Still procrastinating my class projects, but what college student doesn't do that? Had the choir concert last Saturday/Sunday, which was an absolute blast. Had they told me that the venue we were singing at (Namely, the Nagasaki Brick Hall) was the size that it was, I would have been a bit nervous. But no... Stepping out for the first time onto a stage that was roughly the size of the Adler without prior knowledge... didn't give me enough time to realize that that was the largest performance hall I've ever worked in. Hooray for bonus points. Yes, all you people I can already hear complaining: I do have pictures. Not only that, I have our choir's homepage, where there are more pictures (apologies for the japanese page encoding, they kinda use that over here):linky. (hint: if you look right at the middle of the choir, second row, the only one with white skin and red hair... that's me.)

I'm headed to the 九州連 (read: kyushoren, meaning: kyushu party) with the choir this weekend, and be sure, there will be more pictures, possibly some that might be embarrassing to me. Enjoy :)

Until next time!

New Photos

Sorry for the shortness. New pictures are up on Flickr - I'd had them for a while, but I forgot to put them up. That's it, really - concert on Saturday and Sunday, trip to Kagoshima next weekend, and working on papers. Woo-hoo.

Talk to you guys later.