Current mood:	bored
Current music:	The Cure//Chain of Flowers

No, I'm not dead.
I need to stop being lazy and update this thing regularly~ I have nothing else to do, as school got out a month ago and I haven't found a job yet.

I've applied to at least 10 places in the past month and I haven't gotten so much as a call. I read in the paper that it's hard for students to get jobs because the recently unemployed autoworkers are taking the jobs. This is very frustrating. I need the money and work experience and I'm bored as hell. I can't take it anymore. I cannot go throughout the summer doing nothing productive. Of course I can review Japanese and apply to scholarships for study abroad, but still...I want a job so bad. I'm the only person my age without a job. The whole thing is making me very anxious.

I plan on studying abroad in Winter '08. My program of choice is the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies. It's really expensive but hopefully with scholarships it will be affordable. I hope I get into that program...I've heard Kyoto is a wonderful place to be, and it's been my dream to study abroad for a long time.

I'm on Weight Watchers and so far I've lost 7 pounds. My first goal is 122 pounds (7 more to go!) and then after that, my ultimate goal of 115. I'm following the points system. At first it was difficult because I couldn't eat my guilty pleasures such as bagels and pizza. But I've gotten used to eating lighter...and what's great about this program is that you can't eat what you want but you have to watch the portions and count everything out. It's very doable, and plus Weight Watchers makes some pretty damn good dinners and desserts.

Well I'm off to ride my bike.