王立学術研究院主席ここでありますつ！

Okay so I lied - my next post (this) is not about Gotou Yuuko-san, but I promise the one after this will be! I just had to do a short entry in between about me as a researcher, since I have no idea how I managed to end up in such a favorable position. It seems like yesterday when I first stepped into my supervisor's office, unsure of what I wanted to do with my dissertation but desperate to show that I had thought of something before showing up.

My first trip to Japan!

Okay, so I'm super late with this entry too. ごめんなさい....! （；_・）
Though I would like to say it wasn't my fault.....
Oh yeah, I was actually thinking of starting to write something in Japanese in all my entries in order to practice, but we'll see if that'll catch wind.

Anyway! I was planning on taking a phrase book and my Kanji book along with me on my trip, so if nothing else I could at least do something useful during my flight there, but when mom saw them in my bag she exclaimed "No studying on this trip - this is vacation!" and thus I left them at home. Which was probably a good thing. I need to learn how to chill out... 

Also, it's curious how I've been quite unbreakable when shit hit the fan in the weeks before my trip. Like, after getting over the initial shock of the car breaking down on the Scotland trip I thought "Who cares, I'll pull through and then I'm going to Japan!!" and during landing on my flight to Japan I got a really bad ache in my right ear (been over 12 years since I last had that) that went all the way down to my jaw and I thought the right side of my face was gonna be ripped open, and in the midst of all this agony I just thought "This I can handle, I am almost in Japan hell yes!!" Fun times!

Now to the main attraction...!

NANA MIZUKI LIVE JOURNEY 2011, Station 5 Niigata, departs!

Welcome on board!! A fantastic journey!!

So, I think I've stalled this enough.... I just wanted to build up the suspense and savor my experience on my own before writing about it. Also I must warn you, this will more than likely be a very long entry (BECAUSE LOL IT TOOK ME OVER THREE DAYS TO WRITE) - so go make some popcorn now and then enjoy! I have to say I would never have dared hope to see Nana so soon, but dad got me and him (x'D) a ticket to Nana's concert in Niigata for my birthday! I was so ecstatic I could've exploded. Anyway enough of my explosions, time for.....

STATION 5: NIIGATA!

The Nana Inquisition Pilgrimage #1: DORNEY COURT

Well I have to say that THIS blog entry is super late. Sorry about that. Also I must admit I probably wouldn't be writing it yet either, IF I wasn't dying to write about something else (what could that be, I wonder???).... and insisting on keeping these entries chronological at the same time. xD

SO!

THE NANA INQUISITION MARCHES TO DORNEY COURT!

What's to come...!

HELL YES!!!

Holy shit - long time no see! I bet you're all thinking now hell yes epic entry coming, but no - my entry today has a few purposes without being very interesting in itself. The first purpose being just to inform that I haven't died or anything, I've just been very busy with moving back to Finland from the UK and all that jazz and the second purpose being to give a heads up on the awesome stuff to come.

I AM GOING TO JAPAN TOMORROW! HELL YES!