Well, that's settled...

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...I just bought my ticket. 7:10 AM out of Indy on 8/20.

OMG freaking out slightly. :)

Next, the visa problem. Ohhh, the visa problem.

Oh, and happy birthday, buzzermccain!! :)

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If we could meet up in Japan that would be totally awesome and perhaps slightly hilarious. If you do end up coming we definitely need to do that!!

I have thought of the "what if I hate it there?" problem...my decision was that if I hate it there, I'll buy a ticket to somewhere else - probably Australia first - and hop around the world for a year instead, spend a month or two in a bunch of different places like Australia, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, "Europe" in a general sense, I don't know, I haven't thought up a full list yet because I don't anticipate it as the outcome...

Being able to do translation as a job is DEFINITELY one of my goals for the next year...it's what I wanted to do when I started college, and my language skills are definitely not up to it anymore. The bookbinding is a funny situation, because it's not necessarily a full time job even after I get trained up, and it's entirely possible that I'll need several jobs in order to make ends meet, since (kind of like animation) it's the kind of job that has the potential to come and go depending on work availability and whether or not you've been lucky enough to even get work.

...and my aim is Tokyo, though if I don't like it there I'll probably wander to somewhere else (Kyoto or Osaka being the next biggest cities, and therefore my likely destinations, but Sapporo would be nice, and I certainly want to at least visit Hokkaido and the other bigger islands while I'm there...)