Dear Readers.

Yeah, I know I'm a horrible person. I've been told. Here's the deal, though. I'm in Taipei, Taiwan….and I forgot the notebook that has Golden Eyes scrawled in it. cringes I'm a foul, disgusting creature. Sorry. Lol. You deserved an explanation, I thought, so that's what this is: my explanation.

Rotary Youth Exchange has sucked out my soul, and placed it in a little black box high up on a shelf. It is to be returned to me in June. Which means, expect a REAL update in July. I realize I should be most heinously punished for doing this to all of you, as you've been so very faithful about reviewing, for me. Your review mean the world to me, especially now, because I'm in a….fragile place, emotionally. Foreign Exchange is not a walk in the park, but it's completely worth it. I've been writing a lot since I've been here, just…not a whole lot of it has been fanfiction. I'm just 144 pages away from completing my novel, so I'm ridiculously happy about that. (..)

It hasn't all been novel though. I've scribbled several one-shots since I've been here, and they're posted, and I've gotten around to posting some older stuff…which I should probably burn rather than share, but whatever…

Hm. I've attended one anime convention since I've been here, but there's another one on the 9th and 10th of December I'll most likely be going to. Deathnote comes out in theatres here, today. It's Friday the 24th of November, my time. I'm dying to see this movie. It'll be in Japanese with Chinese subtitles, but my Japanese is decent enough that I think I'll manage. I watched the Fullmetal movie with no subs and understood about fifty percent of it.

….So why did Rotary send me to Taiwan? The world may never know.

Hm. I'll be cosplaying soon, if I can get my costume all together. Freya, from Chobits. I'm very excited about this, but finding a wig is going to be almost impossible, I think… I cosplayed in June this past summer at JAFAX as Edward. My automail was made of real sheet metal!! dances It was beautiful, only it hurt like a bitch. I had bruises for several days. Totally worth it though. I even had someone shake my hand they were so impressed by it! It can be found on www (dot) risemboolrangers (dot) com in the photo gallery under "Korin as Edo". Also, I think I'm somewhere on Or you could visit my Livejournal, but you'd have to dig through the archives to find it…….

Speaking of my Livejournal, if any wants to drop by and leave a comment, I'd appreciate it. My user name is blamemymuses. Come say hi sometime, only keep comments PG -- my parentals read the comments… lol. Yeah… I know. But that's how I'm keeping in contact with friends and family mostly, so it does actually make sense when you think about it. It's not just parents being nosy.

Oh! I may be going to college in Ireland. I still haven't applied yet, but the school has EVERYTHING I want. I'm not a….stay-at-home kind of person…..obviously. But, yes. Griffith College, Dublin Ireland. I'm very excited about this.

Again, you have my sincerest apologies. Much love to all my readers!

Fox