im just going to ramble

you dont have to read this.

im just going to bumble along and talk about my last few weeks...

hmmm.. what have i done? i went to omura for the halloween party. that was fun. dressed up as a school girl. was hoping to run into my crush but she didnt end up going. hung out in omura the day before and drank with my friend joe. crashed at his house. at the halloween party, someone stole my spot in the cabin, so i slept in the fucking dirt. i was the ONLY person who slept outside. what the shit. there were people who didnt sleep at all... but sleeping in the cold on the dirt in a skirt sucks worse than it sounds.

after halloween i went to sasebo to hang out with the mom. she was fine. doing well.. i had some tacobell and ate at chilis with her and my crush (lets call her key). key lives kinda close to where my mother lives, so if i were to go visit my mom, i could hang out with her too. anyway i hung out in sasebo for a couple days... one night i went to a birthday party of a friend of ours (with key) way out in the sticks of nagasaki. it was pretty fun, but we missed our train back home.. i kinda pissed my mom off because i was supposed to go home, but i didnt.. i got back to sasebo the next day. my mom just hung out with her friends and they brought pizza over to her house and we just hung out... that day i went to nagasaki for the mid-year conference held in the city.

got to nagasaki a day early and hung out with the iki folk and some random people. hung out at a bar called panic paradise. it was really cool. a music bar where you can pretty much ask for ANY rock song from after 1950 and they'll probably have it. good stuff.. and its underground... so no cell phones work.. no texting.. its refreshing to be in a place like that.

the next day was the conference... boring stuff.. but that night i hung out with troy and a crew of people.. i got pretty drunk. got really loud in a place that i wasnt supposed to be loud in.. shit thats kinda embarrasing. oh well. you drink and learn. hahaha.. the next day was some more conference shit... but that night was awesome. everyone wanted to go out and party.. so thats exactly what we did. we went to ohana cafe and had a drink or fifty. i decided that i didnt want to mix my drinks.. so i stuck with shots of tequilla... what the shit was i thinking? aaaaanyway.. it wasnt that bad... my crush was there... she was already pretty lit up herself. i got her a couple more drinks.. she got even drunker... and slept behind the DJs booth.. hahaha.. it was pretty funny.. anyway her friends were pushing me to go for her... so thats what i did. in the end they kinda just had to trick her into hanging out with me. but we kinda had a prior agreement to hang out solo anyway. it all worked out in my favor, and pehaps hers too.

saturday i had a bright smile on my face all day.. and tried to get to saga for the balloon festival all day, but it didnt work out. we dicked around too long and couldnt get there in time... it took forever for us to get to sasebo, then hop a train the saga... and would have taken ANOTHER hour to get to the festival.. so we scapped the idea and post-poned it till the next day. we went out to dinner with some freinds and kicked it in saga.. then the next day key and i, along with 2 other friends went to the balloon festival, where at first it just seemed like a bunch of people in the middle of nowhere waiting for something to happen.. and for a long time, nothing happened.. there were booths selling stuff.. LOTS AND LOTS of booths.. and lost kid, and lost wallets and all kinds of shit being shouted on the loud speakers... and for a few hours it was just miserable and hot. but i got to spend time with my interest. so it was fine.

FINALLY something happened.. their was a "key race" which i didnt really understand, but what it was was a game where balloons had to take off from at least 1K away and fly to the grounds where the people were and try to get these dangling cardboard keys.. if they did that they got to get some prize.... man at first it was like 1 or 2 balloons.. then they started invading like fleas.. it was nuts! i enjoyed it... it was a beautiful sight... then the sun went down.. ate some food.. hung out for a little bit.. then the balloons started filling up again.. and it got REALLY COLD. the balloons were beautiful.. they had them teathered to the ground, but the balloons were GIGANTIC. key and i split off from the other 2 friends and we had a very romantic moment with each other.. it was cold so we were sharing my jacket.. and snuggling to keep warm.. and because we wanted to. the music was awesome, and the balloons were pretty... it was just a good moment to be soaking in life. (know what i mean?) I kept thinking to myself, i want to keep this feeling forever. you know? that FIRST real spark of DANG this is a feeling that i dont want to let go. if i could live life with that type of positive energy all the time, i could be the dhali lama.

anyway.. i had to go back to tsushima that night. caught a bullet train up to fukuoka.. ate some food, went to the ferry port, had a couple beers with my friend taka.. slept on the ferry... woke up in tsushima at 7am... had to catch a taxi to the airport to get my car.. go home, shower, then go to school.. it was a pain in my dick to do all that THEN start my monday, but it was ALL worth it for all that fun i had. 9 days of vacation... it would all have been worth it for the hour that key and i watched the balloons. great times.

i didnt play any sports for 3 weeks... kinda just feeling BLAH.. but these past 3 days ive been playing b ball and soccer everyday.. so now im starting to feel like a champ again... im going to ruin it tonight by going to fukuoka and drinking like a fish. oh well. ill be back at it again next week.

there are other things to talk about, but i mostly wanted to talk about my 9 day vacation
till next time ol blog