Tying up loose ends

I finally put the finishing touches on my preparations to go back to America. It finally hit me that within a few days I will be on an airplane headed for Los Angeles. I had told many people that I wouldn’t come back for another few years. I feel awkward that I had went against what I said because I feel as if I’m doing so to go ahead. I had set some goals this year that I wanted to achieve and was spending a lot of my time here in Japan trying to fix, but haven’t been successful in doing. But I had prepared everything so that when I go back, I will be able to put the check next to the item. I had dropped some clothes to get Dry Cleaned today since they will have more time to get it done, when I’m on my trip.

After I did that, I proceeded to go to Yokohama station. I wondered around a bit in Yokohama, going to Tokyu Hands, and getting money exchanged, getting some lunch at Yoshinoya, and taking a short trip to Sogo department store. It was a nice walk to get done and I felt better doing all of this. I spent more money than I had wanted, but I think that it was well worth it. I needed to get more things, but I think that at this time, it was appropriate and enough for the things that I wanted to get done. I know that it will go to good use and will hopefully send a message to my friends that I do care.

When I got home, I parked my butt in front of the TV and watched The American President. I just peeled it open from the nice plastic covering and enjoyed it. It was a really nice way to end the day. I really like that movie because it really shows how life and politics really cannot mix. It’s a fairytale story that if it were to happen in real life, wouldn’t end up like that. It’s a really nice story and all, but a fairytale. It was one of the movies that first got me interested in majoring in politics though. I have to give them that much credit. Aaron Sorkin can write a great well intertwined story of love and politics like no other.

It reminded me of the time when I would have to make decisions in my life about what I would want to do in the future and how I wanted to impact the world. I know that politics is really dirty and manipulative and that I would become less of a person for doing such things, but I figure it’s the only arena that I would be able to excel in if I had the dream to guide the way. If you hold yourself to a certain amount of morals and stick to them, that should be the shield that keeps all harm at bay. I’m counting on my character to get me through the tough times ahead of me and the creativity to innovate the system we have now.

Meanwhile I had updated my xanga. I’m getting close to catching up since I’ve noticed I’ve been falling behind and not posting as often as I should be. I mean I write things down on another place before I load them onto the internet, that way I don’t lose anything that I write, which was the common thing before and I would have to start over. That became too annoying and tedious for me to deal with.