Emigration time desu

So once again I return to this forsaken blog in the hopes of actually continuing to write in it once in a while with some purpose. I'm hoping the fact that I can potentially turn this blog into another expat blog about Japan will help kill this procrastination. That isn't to say, by the way, that I don't like expat blogs about Japan. Far from it. Just there is, y'know, quite a few to look at and I'm not going to kid myself that if I do the same that it will get any readers. I'm boring, capiche?

So, on this coming Wednesday my significant other and I will finally stop wasting money on visiting Japan and actually live there for a while. At least, as long as the plan goes well and we can both find work enough to sustain us. I have a job interview this next Monday coming, too, at a preschool in Tokyo! I wasn't expecting to potentially get a job with kids that small but I think I might actually like that a lot more!

Our apartment is in Adachi-ku in Tokyo, famous for Bunka fry and Takeshi Kitano. Yes, that does mean it is as rough as it sounds, apparently. Although, to me it looks like a wonderful suburb with a stunning river to potentially set up a jogging regieme next to. Oh, and a cinema and shops. Good times. No arcade, however, which may be a deal breaker, although knowing Japan this simply cannot be true.

Oh, and we haven't finished packing yet. Nope. At least, my other half has packed all his clothes and we're almost done with games, films and music... as for my clothes? I can do that all in a day, right?

A new beginning? For how long...

Alright, so I've decided that rather than talking and thinking about writing various things about Video Games, maybe I actually should. Easier said than done when I have as much self-confidence in my writing as I do in... well, something not entirely great.

To that end I've thought that if I can write about a game that I have recently completed, using all my filmic/video game knowledge, then maybe... just maybe I will learn something along the way. We shall see. Considering my recently discovered interest in Gender and Sexuality thanks to a mishap with Uni electives, I'd love to write about that but I don't know exactly how credable anything I write will be.

...I'll give it a shot. After all, like most of my ventures it will probably only last a week!

So, a blog, eh?

My first blog, my first post, my first worry is whether to use Verdana or Arial. I've always had a liking of Verdana to be honest. I'd write more stuff in that font if it was allowed in academic essays. Either that or Comic Sans just to irritate anyone who read them. Anywho, I digress...

To be honest I doubt many people will read this. I might put a note about it on good ol' Facey B and maybe at the bottom of my e-mails on MSN. That said, I don't send too many e-mails, and how many people really take any note of peoples websites? I guess we'll see, eh? No doubt it'll be a cheaper, less efficient form of a diary for me. Although I've not had the best track record with keeping them up to date.

So, I really should have started a blog a month or so ago, to chronicle the second trip to Japan and all the goodness involved therein. Didn't think of it though. Go figure. Instead I might upload a few pictures from that time and talk about them a bit along with talking about whatever else is going on in my life. Uni, work, my interest in games, films and the synergy therein, anything else in between. Sounds rivetting, no?

I guess since this is the first post I should keep this short. Or... short for me. Well, I'll update this tomorrow if I remember I even have this!

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