i just finished my last final of the semester. pretty exciting stuff. it was japanese history, and james said he would grant me three wishes if i answered an essay question with, "ninjas are totally sweet. they flip out and kill people all the time." so i did. i don't know if he'll grant me all three wishes, though, because i wrote some other stuff, too. it was a three part essay, and it was gay. the question started, "suppose you had a time machine." so, i had to choose a time period. then i had to say what i would do in that time period (hang out with the samurai and ninjas). then i was supposed to put why i wanted to visit that time period. the third part is where i used james's response. i kind of made up the rest of it.

i hope he at least gives me one wish. because i seriously want that magic pony.

i'll be leaving campus on saturday. i still have to pack. not looking forward to that. but i'm going to thailand on monday, so that will be pretty neat. it's going to be hot and humid and i'll probably want to die, plus there's the possibility of malaria, but, you know, i think it would be fun. i'm really just excited because i heard you can rent horses and ride them on the beach and stuff. or if you're not into horses, you can rent mini elephants. i am totally into horses, but i don't know if i could turn down riding a mini elephant down a beach.

i'll stay there with my friends for about two weeks, then it's back to korea to bum around my friends' houses and say my goodbyes and whatnots. then i'm planning to take a ferry over to japan and chill with natalie in nagasaki for a bit. she and i decided it's too much work hating each other and are friends again. i'm pretty happy about that. plus i get a free place to stay when i go to japan. this renewed friendship is paying off already.

i guess i'll be flying back to the states around the end of july. i don't have a ticket booked yet, but i have to figure out how i'm gonna do that. i'll be stopping in san diego for about another week so i can stay with my sister julia for a while. help me readjust to life at home. i'm still pretty nervous about that, living in america again. i don't really remember how to. and i never did it so well in the first place.

when i get back to minnesota, i might spend time with my sister mary, too. i miss her and her crazy friends and that weird boyfriend. then finally home to my mom and dead cat. and to see my best friend, who i think is still kind of upset with me because i was being an asshole. it's hard to go away for a year. it's hard to leave, but it's even harder to go back. i can't really even explain it properly. but i was having all kinds of anxiety about it and was being an asshole to my sam. so...things are going to be a bit screwy until i go back to her, i think.

so, you know. i've been keeping busy.

oh. i got to go horseback riding yesterday. i was seven kinds of freaking out, on account of being excited. i jumped around and petted all the horses. there was one who was licking my arm while i petted him. then he bit me and i was like, "hey! none of that." still have a bruise. later, he managed to open the gate to his stall and tried sneaking away. unfortunately for him, his stall is on the side of the barn where all the workers were hanging out and they made him go back in. but later he escaped again and had a good romp in the field. he's the one i got to ride, and he was amazing. we pretty much just went over the basic control commands and whatnot, but my horse (michael) kept getting bored and liked to just take off. that was more fun, but they always made us come back and get to business.

i'm going back tomorrow. i hope i get michael again.