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Finally, a bit of spare time!

Didn't think I'd ever get a minute just for myself... Anyway, been swamped with things left and right and it's almost making my head spin. But thankfully it seems like things are toning down a little bit. Maybe I'll actually get a full night's sleep one of these days... Tempted to start now actually, but I just gotta do one more thing and then I can knock out.


( My stuff... )

( My stuff... )

Since classes are slowly driving me crazy, I'm gonna take a break tomorrow and go out blading in the morning. Hopefully it'll get me to relax some. De-stress or something like that...

Classes have been eating up my time.  That's nothing really new I guess.  I'm not exactly the brightest crayon in the box, so to speak, so I've been working extra hard to pass my classes... even though it's just the start.  But isn't it better to start sooner than later?

Unfortunately for me though, that cuts time for other things... like work.  I've been telling the crew that it'd help me if I did some of the mechanical stuff with them, but they just won't listen and tell me to concentrate on the books.  I kinda feel like I'm only working there part-time now, since the session's started.  Oh well... I guess I can handle that.

Is it normal to be nervous about starting new classes?  ... Cause I am.  Despite the others' attempts at keeping me calm with more work, it's just not helping me.  Though, I probably shouldn't be this nervous...  But at least the car that I worked on has an awesome new paint job?  Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture... Oh well.  Hopefully next time I remember.

For now, I should try to relax and not worry too much about classes tomorrow...

Finally recovered from the jet lag...

I actually returned from my trip on Wednesday, but was too dead tired to say anything... But London was awesome~!  It was my first trip overseas and I was so stoked!  I was able to borrow one of the other's camera and just took a whole bunch of pictures.

Here are a few:


I really had an awesome time there, even though the stay was a bit longer than planned.  Something about flights being delayed...



[ooc: Apologies in advance for the major pic spammage... ^^;;;]

Since finals are done (finally!), I can get back to the garage and work again.  I miss being there.  Thought I was going to go crazy just looking at my textbooks and stuff the whole last two weeks or so.  But, to keep me on the sane side, I did a few sketches that I hope I'll get the chance to paint on someone's car.  But if not, then... I'll just hold onto to it until later.

Um, what else... Had to pack my stuff back.  Which was hell since I felt like I just moved in here... Actually that's partially true, but whatever.  At least I can keep the stuff at the shop until the summer session starts.

Study, study, study.

That's the main thing I've been doing ever since I got here.  But at the term is almost over, right?  Finals and then I can relax a little bit.  But because it's finals week that I haven't been able to even go to the shop and do a little work.  I miss working in there already...

Anyway, I think I'm gonna take a break.  Go do some blading or something.  Get my mind off of all this stuff sitting on my desk in front of me for a while.

Why do people think using duct tape on their cars solves everything? I mean seriously.  I know it's good for extreme emergencies, but for your car?

Like this one for example.

I think everyone in the garage wanted to trash the whole car when they saw it.  Duct tape and cardboard.  Can you get any sorrier than that?  And they want us to fix it... Gonna cost a pretty penny since we have to order a new fender.  Oh well.  We'll just have fun picking it apart~

So we decided not to go to Tokyo yesterday, since we got a sudden request that needed to be done by tomorrow.  Said it was for his girlfriend's birthday or something like that.  So, I had to work a little more than the others since I'm in charge of the painting and whatnot.  But I think I did a pretty good job for a last minute planned design...

Check it out here.

Other news, I'm slowly but surely catching up on my school work.  Stuff isn't easy but then again, what is?  Hopefully my brain won't explode with all the things I've been stuffing it with.

An... interesting thing happened to me yesterday afternoon.  Not quite sure what to call it, but it was different.  Definitely something that's never really happened to me before.  I wonder if it tops the charts on bizarre-ness...?

Anyway, last Saturday was awesome~ Osaka people are really impressive, I'll admit that.  I might have to do a little practicing before the crew allows me to do anything soon.  That is... if I ever find the time do practice.  Homework's a real pain... I feel like that's all I've been doing all week.  Leniency only goes so far...

But at least I got to work on a sweet looking car these last two days.  Yuuta, you have one awesome car~  Hope you like what was done to it.

Youhei, I'm pretty sure that I got all the right parts.  When do you want me to bring them to you so that you can start building it?

Does anybody know of a good billiards place?  I feel like playing...

I am currently at Zaizen's place, waiting for him to finish that takoyaki he promised to make.  And since he was so anal about me using his desktop, I was given "permission" to use his laptop so that I wouldn't get too bored while I wait. 

... And he just fucking threw something at me...yuck.

Anyway, the first week of classes here... and I think I'm going to die a very early death.  Things are a lot tougher here than compared to the community college I transferred from.  I actually should be doing the insane stack of homework I have on my desk at the dorm, but I know I wouldn't be able to concentrate on it.  It's the weekend after all~

Other news, a hooptie came into the shop the other day.  If this were my computer, I'd have a picture to show, but it's not so I can't.  Maybe next time.  But it was a hooptie... rusted, dents, and just plain old.  I didn't even recognize what kind of model it was until the owner told us what we were dealing with.  We were tempted to tell him to just scrap the thing, but apparently it has sentimental value to it.  So, we agreed to take it on.  We're gonna have to do serious work on this thing and finding spare parts for it won't be easy since it's so old, but we're gonna do it.  Never let it be said that we didn't accept challenges~


Well, Zaizen's finished with the takoyaki, so I'm off~

 So, I've finally settled in properly.  Any extra junk I sent back to the shop for safe keeping.  I've also been trying to familiarize with the area, so I've got a pretty good grip of where is what around here.

I start classes tomorrow and... I'll admit that I'm kinda nervous.  This is the first time I'll be taking classes at a place so big.  I went through the campus and looked for all of my classes the other day so that I wouldn't get lost (and be late) tomorrow.  And luckily enough, I found a few shortcuts that'll help me out.

When I haven't been setting all my stuff in order, I've been working.  Can never stay away from the shop/garage for too long~
Few days ago we got a pretty wrecked Nissan 350Z... and the crew and I worked on it like crazy.  New parts from VeilSide, and even some LED's along with a new paint job of course, done by yours truly~


That reminds me... Youhei, I talked to the crew and they said that they'd be able to put in that power boost valve you want. What kind of car do you have?


[ooc: Image shamelessly taken from Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift  XP]

 So, I'm finally in the dorm.  I had a lot more stuff than I realized... It's going to take me a while shift through all this stuff and figure out what I want to keep here and what I'll send back to the shop for safe keeping.  Don't want to clutter the place up.

Anyway, hey.  I'm Muromachi Touji, living at Higashi dorms, rooming with... Kirihara Akaya in room 303a.  Majoring in mechanical engineering and minoring in art.  I work at an auto body and repair shop, so if your ride needs repairing come on over to Karasu and we'll fix it up (even customize and design) it for you.  Most likely you'll get special discounts if you tell the people there that you know me in some way, shape or form.

Transferring in the middle of the semester is going to be a pain though.  Hopefully the professors will give me some slack... 

... I should be cleaning up all this junk.