Two months down.

Holy cats, it's not yet ten PM and I'm done studying (that is, confident about all the material) for a major exam in a subject I find challenging. I don't even know when the last time that happened was.

Not too much to tell about yesterday; I mostly stayed in and studied all day. I did, however have a very successful and delicious cooking day, though. About a week ago I bought ingredients to make guacamole... And then couldn't find corn chips in any stores. So yesterday, since time was getting short and the avocados were getting old, I made a special trip to Kichijoiji just to go to Kaldi (imported foods store) and buy corn chips. XD
And so I finally did make guacamole, and it was soooo good.
And since Alejandro and I had been talking about Sukiyaki a little earlier, on a whim I bought some beef sliced for nabe while I was out, and made sukiyaki for dinner. And it was also really, really good.


Holy cats, tomorrow is December! I guess I need to get on buying Christmas gifts, since it'll take a little while to send them. I've been working on a novelty gift for Jiaqi and Patrick for a month or so now, but I should probably beef it up and make it a box to send to all the UM kids. Besides that, I bought a couple souvenirs at the national history museum for my parents... And nothing else so far. What to buy, what to buy...

Also related to it being December already, those of us who are going to be around over the ~2 week break over Christmas and New Year's are figuring out what we're going to do. Many of us want to travel. It's not settled, but I think most likely we'll be going somewhere in the Kansai region. Kyoto might be saved for springtime, so maybe Osaka? Fff, exciting.
Also giving more consideration to other trips. There's a sort of hazily agreed-upon trip right after classes end in the first half of February to Hokkaido, quite possibly Sapporo, for the Snow Festival. And there's also a contingent of us that wants to go Okinawa (gotta be summer) after the completion of AIKOM in July as a celebration trip. Thank you, Heiwa Nakajima Foundation.

The rest of this week will be pretty heavy with schoolwork... But Thursday I'll be going with a lot of friends (centered around AIKOM - so many AIKOMsei and those who often hang with AIKOM) to an amazing place in Shibuya that I have not yet been to, called Sweets Paradise. Oh man.
And Friday is a potluck, put together by Alden due to his and my mutual desire to have a potluck. XD Seems that a lot of people (also centered around AIKOM) will participate, so I'm looking forward to it! I may have to bring chips and salsa and guacamole.