So Close

I'll be stepping on Japan soil in less than 16 days now. It's getting exciting every day.

I did something I probably shouldn't have, but I felt like I had to. I bought a new camera, the Canon 50D. I argued it out with myself, and this shouldn't hurt me too bad in the wallet. I had about $2000. The camera was $1200, then $300 for the rail pass, then $50 for the cellphone, bringing my lovely $2000 down to about $450. I just sold a lens for $100, my old dSLR should sell somewhere between $300-400, and finally, I did a job for someone a little while ago which totaled to about $400, this brings me up to about $1200. This seems okay, seeing that everything aside from food will be paid for once I get to Japan. I'm a little paranoid about the $400, but oh well. I already have the 50D in my hands now, just got it today in the mail! It's a lovely device, I haven't quite had the chance to test it out yet and tomorrow is Akino's birthday, restricting me from kidnapping and boring her to death by taking panoramic shots of the sunset :( oh well.

Speaking of which, I made her some little button pins for her birthday. She picked up an iPod Touch today for herself... since she received a nice, fat stipend from SAC for all of her hard work. I've been telling everyone that we're going to have a BBQ for her, but I have no idea of the location yet :(

I asked Ola, yet another boss of mines, if she'd be willing to purchase a lens I've had my eye on for awhile. They seem to enjoy simply purchasing things for my services instead of checks. Works for me, as I probably would have spent it on a lens anyway, and this way I don't get taxed! Ah, tax evasion! Anyway, the lens is a Sigma 50mm f/1.4!!! I bloody lub Bokeh. I did my fair share of research, and it seems that the Sigma tramples over the Canon f/1.4... as it should, it's a friggin 77mm diameter lens! The Canon is 58mm or 62mm, can't recall. Ah, these filters are going to get expensive. Anyway, I haven't heard back from them since my request, so I hope they took me serious... I don't ever ask for anything.

Dark Christmas went... okay. I didn't think it was a very successful event. You can pretty it up all you want, we simply didn't get the crowd that we needed to show that the students were getting something out of it. I don't know what my problem as a Publicist is, I just can't seem to nerf down my time on making things pretty.

My classes are going well. I have been skipping quite a bit recently as a result from Dark Christmas, and the pattern seems to be sticking with me. I'm just thankful this pattern didn't emerge in October. In any case, I'm ready for the finals, just one silly paper for Philosophy and I'm finished. I just need to worry about work now...

So I ran through an interview the other day for a position in Myhraliza's office. I was pretty confident and still am, some of the questions they asked seemed contrary to what they told me about the job description though. In any case, it's a job and one with people that I enjoy to work with, so I suppose it's a good decision.

Well, this was a rather long blog. Lots on my mind, I suspect.