Oops...

Now I remember why none of my five pairs of work/casual shoes have laces in them. Oh well.
I have been learning Japanese by the way, I just have more trouble doing it on a regular basis than I do reading or playing videogames! But I'm coming along now. I was supposed to get some Kanji books today that I ordered from Amazon but I waited for them until 10:15 this morning and then took a quick trip to the grocery store. Upon my return, I realized that someone had called at approximately 10:17. Whoever it was didn't leave a message but if they had it would probably go something like 'Sorry we couldn't deliver your package today. We'll come again tomorrow morning two minutes after you leave for work.' Gah.

I am learning though. Just yesterday I learned to write my first kanji. Up till now I've taken the stance that I would rather be ignorant than learn that stupid picture language. Now I've had a complete reversal of attitude-I'm gonna learn that stupid picture language but I'm not going to enjoy it.

My first kanji was just the numbers 1-10 and actually it's ridiculously easy compared to some of the stuff out there. Let me see if I can do it for you:

一 1
二 2
三 3
四 4
五 5
六 6
七 7
八 8
九 9
十 10

See that was easy wasn't it! I've decided not to learn 0 partly because it actually isn't really used very often (for example 40 isn't 4-0 but rather 4-10 四十）and mostly because it looks like this: 零