My final final has been taken care of :) I did lousy, but that doesn't matter except slightly to my self esteem.
Now I have one week before my parents and Markus arrive. Most people seem to be fine with just hanging around in the heat doing nothing much (I'd use the word chill, except it's highly inappropriate in the japanese summer). I've decided to go and try to find a campsite called kamiwarizaki tomorrow. I've had my tent here in my room for my entire stay in Japan and haven't used it at all. There are a few minor problems with my plan of course (most importantly not knowing which train line to take), but nothing I shouldn't be able to solve with a visit to the tourist information tomorrow morning.
I have barely glanced at people's blogs these last couple of weeks, both because I've been somewhat busy and because the airH connection has been more unstable than usual. I'll try to get back to it soon, but since I'm cancelling the card soon it may be until I'm back home in Sweden.
Oh, I said I'd try to write a bit more about the Aomori trip. By now you may have figured out that when I say I'll write more later it usually means that I have more to say on the subject but probably never will.

Word of the day: Badass
noun: A mean-tempered or belligerent person.
adjective: Mean; belligerent.
That's what the dictionary said. But really, that's a very narrow way of looking at it. If you hear somebody shout "Badass!" it's not likely that he's warning his fellows that a belligerent person is approaching. More likely he's just seen something awesome, or maybe even totally sweet, and wants to make the world aware of this.
As for the adjective part, a badass programmer or skater can usually be quite nice despite being a badass. In this case the word means something along the lines of "extremely skillfull"
Related links: badass1, badass2

Listening to: Soviet national anthem
Feeling: Bored