Presentations, Presentations, Presentations

A little over 3 weeks left, and I'm going crazy with excitement! Everyone keeps coming up to me and saying, "You're excited to go to Japan, huh?"

What an understatement!

This one Tokyopop representative at the American Library Association Convention had the tenacity to say, "Going to Japan is a lot better than Comic-Con."

Please, don't insult me. It's way better! Like 20 times better! But I love my Comic-Con. I'm considering sending someone to Comic-Con for me just so I can say that I sent someone in my place. This will be the first time in 7 years that I will be missing out on Comic-Con International. 7 years!!

With Japan right around the corner, I'm getting more and more anxious. I still haven't paid for everything, and I'm worried that I won't be able to because of my low, low, low financial status. It's only $575, but still, that's a lot to me. I'm hoping that the stimulus check will help cover the costs, but I still haven't gotten it yet!

I hope that my next paycheck will take care of everything, and I'll be ok. Besides the money part, I'm preparing for the presentation to the City council out there. I'm the "Food Commissioner" so I talk about what types of food is in the city that I live in.

Johnny Carino's, check. Daphne's Greek Cafe, check. A million taco shops, check.

It's pretty easy to put a presentation together. All you have to do is look up the restaurant on the website, snap a couple of pictures for a Powerpoint presentation, and ta-da! You have a presentation! Only requires about one-tenth of your brain cells, if you do it just right.

I'm using the rest of my brain cells to decipher how to speak Japanese or Nihongo.

My brother bought me an audio series on learning to speak Japanese just for when I drive around the City the many aimless hours that I do. Surprisingly, it's hard, because they go "slowly" but it's not slow enough! It's easy like Karuma desu--"It is a car"--to Oki karuma desu, and I forget what it means, but I can say it! Japanese is harder than I remember it being...

Sadness...

I'm getting there, slowly and surely, and I believe that things will work out...

Is anyone up for attending Comic-Con in San Diego for me? (Message me if you are!)