Is this thing on?

I am not a very superstitious person.  I don't collect four leaf clovers and I defy any of the cracks that I come across to break my mother's back when I step on them, so my recent behavior has been out of character.  I have been avoiding posting on my blog about Japan because I was afraid that by posting on my blog, I would be jinxing my return to Japan.  Deep down I realize how silly this is, but it changes nothing.  I am still halfway afraid even as I type this that my trip will be cancelled and that the reason it will be cancelled will be this post.  It is taking every ounce of my willpower to keep myself from deleting this post.

As almost everyone should know, I was finally accepted into my program at Meiji University in Tokyo.  This was a no more arduous process than my previous experience, but it was a lot more nerve-wracking.  My application was turned in before the first of March, but I didn't receive any confirmation about my acceptance until the middle of June.  I was the last student to receive word from their host schools at Missouri State.  As it turns out, Meiji University only accepts ten students per semester, so they had a lot of narrowing down to be sure.  The waiting was frustrating, but after having been accepted, my headache is gone.  I can only imagine that the people who didn't get accepted after waiting so long are very upset, but if they were to the point I was when I finally got news, they probably aren't as upset as I might thing.  By the time I got my letter, I barely cared if I got to go; I really just wanted to know what I was doing.

I am considering moving my blog to a different site, but I'm not sure why.  I don't have any problems with google.  I just thought I might want to try one of the more trendy sites. I can't even remember the names of them right now.  This paragraph isn't very interesting, but I'm keeping it anyway.  If any of you blog, maybe you could tell me if I should move?  The only problem I ever had with google was that they are real stingy with photo space.  When I was in Japan before, I would take pictures and just do massive uploads to facebook, but I would much rather have used some of them on my blog and captioned them and stuff.  Google just didn't have a very good interface for that sort of thing.  I say didn't because I don't know if they do now or not.  I suppose I could try to upload a picture and caption it and see. 

Anyway, I'll likely be updating this thing more often now, so if you are interested, keep an eye out.  If you are a spammer here to trick my friends into giving you their passwords, good luck.  I promise you one thing: if you post a link to a website where my friends can buy penis enlargement pills, you will sell infinite pills.