new roomie

my new roommate from tasmania showed up last night. the teachers got together downtown to throw him a welcoming party. at least, i think they got together since neither i nor my new roommate went to it. he's kind of a funny guy (i suppose we're both kind of funny). He did spend the previous 48 hours traveling without a break, but when you get thrown a party you usually make the effort to attend. i told him we would head downtown for 10pm and he very non-chalantly passed. i was quite impressed but then struggled to make excuses for the both of us to everyone already downtown. after all, if he wasn't going, then I didn't need to make the trip either.

there's a certain quality, in some people, that i admire and he's got it. when i was talking to him last night and there was a lull in the conversation, he didn't just blurt out things to fill the silence. I tend to do that. I wish I didn't but there's this anxiety i feel when no one is speaking. ive read that its an american quality but i dont agree with that. one of my british co-workers and the new zealander do it. they just ramble on about nothing and it makes them both seem very stupid to me. what could you possibly need to say out loud about kit-kats anyway? the ability to just keep quiet if you have nothing to say is useful i think. so this guy has already given me the impression that he's very self-assured, intelligent, and has a tendency towards really deep-thought. luke has that quality too. and all it takes is to know when to shut up. if you dont have a point to make, dont talk. its so simple. and it makes a lasting impression (maybe the rest of you don't agree).

so we watched team america: world police instead. it was as dumb as i thought it would be but funny regardless. i particularly liked the 'america: fuck yeah' song, the sex scene, and that trey parker and matt stone just came out and called every actor in hollywood a fag. i dont know what they have against matt damon in particular but i thought the movie was alright. the hours was better though.

ive started saying ridiculous things in english every now and then to japanese people. its probably wrong to take advantage of their lack of english but i know they're doing the same thing to me in japanese, so i dont feel too bad about it.