yesterday i got the news that i've been accepted as an exchange student to "miyagi university of education" (宮城教育大学, shortened, i think, to 宮教?) in sendai, for a year, starting in autumn. well, not 100% accepted, the japanese school can still refuse me but it's veeery unlikely. the first debriefing is next friday.

so now i have to prepare my ass off — cleaning and tossing everything, getting Official Papers (medical prescriptions that'll need to be transferred to japan somehow), going to the dentist, getting new glasses (normal + reading... gonna cost like $1,000 USD, owch), i'll probably want to have 1 decent set of clothes and buy the rest there, etc, and then i'll just have to STUDY JAPANESE. my wife's sisters are FINALLY, after 4 months of being here, going to their own place now so studying should be a lot easier.

now i spent $20 USD on ebay buying some useful-seeming things that may improve my life. i figure i'd better buy and test them out now rather than constantly order stuff when i'm in japan. i got:

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