We were at the supermarket! And there were lobsters! And they were FIGHTING! And it was cooooooool!

...am I lame for finding that cool?

Oh my God, Sakaeguchi and I have a little puppy and her name is Juanita Sakai (Juanita was me and Sakai was Sakaeguchi, who named her after Iron Chef French Sakai Hiroyuki) and she is sooooooo cuuuuuuuuute and she has cooking things and we are getting her a chef's outfit for Christmas this year and just wait until you see her!

Sakaeguchi is going to post the pictures and videos of her really soon! She's just too adorable and I need to keep hugging her because she's way too cute and soft and just...awwwwwww!

I Like Bugs is actually on my TV right now! Eeeeeeeeeee!

...I got way too excited, didn't I? But I love this song!

So in Game One of the World Series Jason Bartlett stole second base and America won a free taco, and today we got to go and get it!

The Italian laboratory program is really boring, but it's also really easy. Honestly, a lot of it is just me listening to the computer talk and clicking on 'I have completed this exercise.' I get points for that. I like that. Sakaeguchi thinks I'm not properly learning through this thing, but I'm already good enough at Spanish to understand a lot of this anyway, so it's not a big deal.

I also like it whenever the scene is set in a train station because then Kazuki stops what he's doing and turns the volume on the computer all the way up so Junta can hear everything. It's really funny.

And there's this one lady who just barks, "NO, MASSIMO!" which Sakaeguchi found hilarious. I ripped that file with Audacity and added it to the Nishiura playlist at Tajima's request.

I found this on Yahoo! this morning... ( Article on musical tastes and personality and stuff! )

...I totally don't want to take the Italian quiz today.

Even if it won't be hard and I'll get to do it on my own time. I just don't feel like doing it 'cause I'm lazy. And there might be math! How horrible would that be, if there was math? I really hope there won't be any math.

...I think today is a 'no motivation' day. 'Cause it's Friday and we get to have fun later tonight and tomorrow (I hear we're playing Bible Game tonight!).

...please don't make me take this quiz...

So I discovered this week that I'm actually really good at Italian! It must be the Spanish.

The funny thing, though, is that tonight's Italian homework has math in it 'cause we're doing numbers. Is it kind of wrong that I tried to use my calculator even though it was simple addition and subtraction? 'Cause I did, but my calculator was out of batteries. So I used my Sakaeguchi instead. He did the math for me although now that I look at it the math was actually really easy and I probably could have done it myself but math in a language you don't fully understand yet looks so much harder!

I'm a moron, I know.

I think tonight was a night for people with funny names to go to Shea Stadium. Just look!

There is an episode of Dora the Explorer called Leon the Circus Lion!

And we HAVE IT! It was on iTunes (Tosei was looking for more material to dub due to the lack of Peppa)! Of course, they also bought the episode called Choo Choo. Bye-bye, Takase! And they got two songs - I'm The Map and Super Map. Rumor has it that Shingo will sing both.

...and apparently all four of the dubbers AND Sakaeguchi knew about this episode's existence. And they got it to surprise me. I guess when we make a cake later, I ought to let Sakaeguchi have some of the batter this time...normally I get to lick the whisk. But this is just too nice of him - I totally owe him this time. So he'll get some batter, too, somehow...

I've never been this close to real leones before! But look how close I got today!

I really want to have una fiesta del leon right now. Because there were so many in the Met today!

Today we were by the ocean (or as Noggin puts it, beside the seaside!) and it was really nice! The weather was great but the water was really cold. Oh, and Sakaeguchi and I tried to make a cake out of sand, but it didn't work too well and we didn't take any pictures of our efforts because they kind of sucked.

It's not as cool as Atobe's plane, though. His actually has his face on it.

1863_project's kid brother recently graduated middle school. 1863_project's grandmother likes buying her two grandchildren really noisy toys, and she gave 1863_project's brother...UN LEON! And he sings! So I filmed him!

...of course, I was so excited that I held the camera sideways. Go figure.

Okay, today was all kinds of awesome - 1863_project took us to the Bronx Zoo! It was amazing! All the enclosures are so big - the animals get the space they need and stuff! It rocks!

We covered pretty much the entire zoo today. It was insane. We got a bunch of amazing pictures, too, and some videos which are, well, kind of crazy. Especially the ones in which Junta starts quoting Kai-Lan and asking tigers if they're mad. But I got some big cat videos of my own!

Okay, I don't know why, but every time I see this clip on Oobi I crack up. I find it hilarious.

Well, I finally did it - I swore at un leon.

Oh, we got it!

Yes! Sakaeguchi is letting me post the video he got of Oobi at the barber! Here it is!