Spring Break!

And I am happier for it, let me tell you. As I put it in my Facebook status: 勉強に飽きた, or, "I'm fed up with studying." 飽きる (akiru: to be tired of/fed up with) is a newish addition to my vocabulary - I've renewed my efforts to not lose all my language skills, which in practice means I'm trying to learn more kanji and I'm sort of working on memorising more verbs. I have a book that has the 600 most common Japanese verbs and I took it to work the other day to study a little bit in between appointments. Akiru is one of the words I managed to memorise and learn to write.

Anyway, my spring break is very low key so far. I need to work on my thesis, but I haven't done that yet, and tomorrow I'm planning to get my hair cut and pick through sale racks at the mall (I was in Forever 21 for about 5 minutes on Saturday and the entire back half of the store is sale stuff - I am all over that) . I'm thinking I'm going to grow my hair out a bit again, so I want to get the ends evened up before it starts looking ragged. And I might get bangs of some sort, for something different while I get some length back. I'll ask the stylist what she thinks.

Spring break non-plans aside, I'm getting really edgy waiting to hear back from JET. Apparently, according to my mother, my sister recently said something to the effect of: "If Alexis doesn't get hired, I don't know who will." So, hey, at least someone has faith in me and my abilities to get a damn job. I'm trying to be sort of neutral about it, you know? I really want to get accepted as a short list candidate (it would be quite possibly the best news of my life, from where I'm standing right now), but I'm trying to be prepared for the possibility of rejection. I've been considering my contingency plans, and I do have a few, but I would vastly prefer not to have to go there. And the fact that it's almost April is wreaking havoc on my nerves. They're going to be in shreds by the time I get that letter, you don't even know.

I know my blog is really boring right now, sorry. I don't have a lot of different things going on, but what I do have is big and taking up a lot of space in my mind. I have my thesis to finish, JET should be contacting me sometime in the next two to three weeks, graduation is 16 May... this is a weird time in my life. It feels really up in the air, sort of like I'm just waiting for things to happen. I'm working and active, obviously, because that thesis is not going to write itself, but everything is heavy with anticipation. It's not bad or unpleasant, but it's definitely strange.