Back from the Dead but not in Japan

Hello everyone! (that is to say...no one, seeing as it's been so long)

I sincerely apologize for abandoning this blog while I was still in Japan last year; I was either too busy or too lazy to continue updating it, even though I did a lot of things that were definitely blog-worthy. Oh well, anyway...I've decided to once again resurrect this blog because there's a chance I will travel back to Japan next year as an English teacher or maybe if I'm lucky a city government clerk, or something like that (JET program). Anyway, I've heard the process of applying is rather painstaking, so I've already started to gather up some necessary documents like transcripts just in case I really choose to take the plunge.

In the meantime, seeing as my job search here in Washington state is repeatedly running me into brick walls, I've decided to start devoting more time to studying Japanese again, specifically kanji--the Chinese symbols which number in the thousands and are undoubtedly the greatest obstacle facing anyone who wants to become literate in Japanese. I'll write more on this later!