They'll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate

Well, life has continued on. Things have been happening.

Most of my classes are going fine so far. Japanese is doing it's best to try and kick my ass though. I've been making my way through it, but I'm going to need to step up my game. This is going to be a lot of work that I'm not looking forward to. (It doesn't help that our textbook, Tobira, sucks.) One of my more fun class this semester is Intro to Buddhism. Buddhism is a pretty interesting subject and it helps a lot that my professor reminds me almost freakishly of Neil Patrick Harris. At least, Neil Patrick Harris if he were a glasses wearing college professor. It makes me happy.

The kitten has officially been ours for about a week now. Alie bought her a collar and took her to a vet appointment. She seems to be healthy. The vet also thinks that Leroko is about 4 1/2 months old, which is nice info to know. Leroko has also settled in quite nicely. Though now that she's comfortable with us, she's gotten more mischievous. This involves things such as trying to eat food off the table, clawing herself along the bottom of the couch, and attacking people's feet. She can be cute and affectionate (she purrs a lot), or bratty and bitey. Living with a cat has just proved to me once and for all that I am without a doubt more of a dog person, lol.

This past weekend was pretty fun! stellawind and yaexrae came to visit us! It was good to see both of them. stellawind made us a delicious Japanese style lunch on Saturday, with yakisoba and okonomiyaki. We were also able to get a large chunk of our IU friend group together for hangouts over the weekend. We ended up chilling out at Cat's apartment on Saturday night, while she and yaexrae practiced their ACross skit. Cat even filmed some of our goofiness.

And in more awkward news, I've had two dates with Chance recently. He's a friend of Alie's and he seemed nice, so I decided to give things a try. It just didn't work though. He can be fun to talk to, but there was just nothing else there. I also think he's not quite as mature as I would like him to be. He took me out for dinner and a second viewing of Scott Pilgrim tonight. But, I had to tell him that things weren't working for me. I felt bad because I think I hurt his feelings, but I couldn't keep lying to him. I kind of don't know why I bother sometimes. Guys and I just never end up working out well.

Feeling somewhat better now that everything's said and done. I'm still sad, but the pain is slightly easier to deal with.

One thing that has helped me cheer up is a new addition to our household at IU. While I was gone, my roommates took in a stray kitten. Alie found her and brought her in. The kitten is adorable with stripes and her eye have subtle heterochromia (one is brown and one is green). Assuming that no one claims her, we're going to keep her! We're counting on keeping her because we've already named her. Her name is Leroko (after Greta's character Lero, who also has heterochromia). She's a sweet little thing. She's kind of shy, but seems to be warming up to us more every day. I'm more of a dog person, but I don't mind having a cat for a while (and I don't even have to clean up after her because Alie and Nicole have agreed to do it \o/).

( Kitty pictures! )

Also, I have a Dreamwidth account now. (Thanks to faevii!) If anyone else has an account there, feel free to friend me. I don't know how much I'll be using it and I don't plan on completely switching over to it at this point in time, but I'd just like to have it as a back-up, in case I ever get tired of LJ's fuckery.