Sashiko

I meant to restart this, and keep it going daily once again, but then I got distracted by the new Call of Duty game before I was able to re-establish the habit of sitting down and typing something out every evening.

So...let's try this again.

Got a good week coming up. Three days of work, followed by a four-day weekend ^__^ I can't believe it's already this time of year. Christmas is only a month away? That's crazy. I'm so happy I'm not working in the retail industry this holiday season...because that was also crazy.

It hasn't snowed since the last time it snowed, which was a while ago, but it's still on the ground. It's been cold enough that it hasn't melted and frozen into ice, which makes the walking and driving conditions somewhat bearable.

The late sunrise/early sunset thing is already starting to get to me. 6:00 in the evening actually feels more like 10:00, so it's a bit strange. I'm sure the vampires love it up here, though.

Ohio State beat Iowa on Saturday in an epic 4th quarter comeback. It had been a while since I watched a football game where I felt like I had to sit down and recover from it afterwards.

I finished Lost earlier this evening. Right now, I'm just letting my mind piece the whole experience together, but I do know that I quite enjoyed the ending. It's always a strange feeling, realizing that something you invested so much time into, characters that you got so emotionally attached to...that it's done; they're done. There's no more story to tell. I haz a sad, but at least I'm satisfied with the ending.

One more mention before I go to bed...you guessed it...birthday time! This one's important, because she's my second-favorite member of AKB48. Rino Sashihara. A couple of months ago, there was an announcement that she was changing her name, and would be from that day forward going by the stage name "Sashiko." I thought it must be a joke, but she confirmed it on her blog, then I saw that her name had been changed on a popular fan-site forum. I still refused to believe it, until I went to the official AKB48 site and saw that the name-change had been reflected on her official profile. I was raging all day about the stupidity of it, and , of course, my ire was compounded by the fact that this stupidity involved one of my favorites. The name on her portrait in the AKB theater was changed...there was even a commercial promoting their new single that mentioned "Sashiko." I wouldn't have been able to sleep well that night had she not revealed on her blog later that evening that it was, in fact, a joke. On one hand, I was really upset that they would trick me like that, but on the other hand, hats off them for going all out.

Happy Birthday!! (And don't ever do something like that again ⌐_⌐)



Bed-time for me. G'night.