So, my friend from class 2-8 came over for an hour and a half today.  His name is Yuta [see blog title] and that was pretty cool.  First person that I’ve actually had over to the Maki’s house.  This weekend was a bad time to schedule any sort of meeting, as I was surprised he could actually come.  All students are studying hard this weekend for the testing starting Tuesday.  All of my friends are busy, which ruled out most of the cool stuff I could do.

Today was mostly boring, besides that 1 and a half hours.  This morning I woke up, checked my email, had breakfast, and talked to some people on MSN/AIM [Amma] which was fun.  My host mother made ramen for breakfast, which was really good.  I like ramen.  Then, unexpectedly, my host mother decided that we should go to Jusco and get McDonald’s and pick up some snacks for Yuta, which fine with me…if only for the McD’s.  Turns out Yuta didn’t eat any snacks, but now we have more potatoe chips, pocky, and Kit-Kats!  I’m not complaining.

So…the rest of the day, which was 3PM on, I did absolutely nothing.  Found two episodes of ‘Supernatural’ [can be watched on The CW] on YouTube, which took up another hour and a half.  That’s kind of sad, but my host-siblings were gone, and my host mother was cleaning and making dinner.  When I say there’s not much to do at home, I mean it.   I wanted to start a new writing project…but…a plot hasn’t hit me yet.  Right now I’m just going to be poking around at ideas for awhile, and hopefully come up with something to write about.  I miss writing fiction.  Plus I want a good excuse to give Word a good workout.

Ironically though, I came up with some really good video game plotlines.  I can’t wait to go to Digipen.  If I wanted to, I could pursue C++ and computer game programming now, but that’s a bit too much to aspire for when I’m midway through my PHP book and don’t have that much time.  Disappointing, but video games are much harder then writing web scripts.  Or writing blogs.

A nice suprise this month was the fact that I got to save 2,000 yen because some extra costs were covered when I thought I’d have to pay, so that was extremely nice.  I might be able to still get that webcam…which would own.  Messing around with Video Blogging would give me something new to do.  Long blogs are usually a result of me having nothing to do, so I write to fill time.  Thursday however, when I wrote that huge blog, I did not have time.  I was up too late and was really tired the next day.   I’m good now though, all rested.

How big of news is the North Korean thing in the US?  Personally it’s a bit scary in a removed sort of way to know that their are nuclear weapons close by, and ones that are being tested.