Weather : hailed earlier, but now the sun's setting beautifully!

My first diary entry! It wasn't as hard to set up as I thought. The real problem will be making buttons so that you guys can click different entries and get inevested in the telenovela that is my life!

I should probably start with a more personal introduction: Hi! My name is Tsubaki and I'm a second-year Psychology student living in London. I moved to the city from the suburbs about two years ago because I wanted to study but didn't want to live too far away from my dependant family. My life is good. Nothing really bad happened to me as a kid and now I share a house with some really nice people, and I've got some good friends both at uni and away. I'm sure I'll upload my interests somewhere on the website for you guys to poke at so this diary will just be covering my day-to-day life. Hmm... how do people usually start talking about themselves?

Well, I usually start with whatever's happened most recently and go from there. I like to think I have a charisma that makes it easy for me to talk to people and fun for people to listen, though sometimes I just want to lock myself in my room and never come out haha. Last night I had a date with a rich guy at a nice Japanese bar in Aldwych. I'm sure he was a nice guy but he really wasn't my type.

Breakfast! I had to wait for the bank nearby to open so I could deposit some cash. My new job at a small Italian place was so dodgy and paid me so weird that I flat out quit (which I shouldn't have in retrospect) and I dived right into a new job that's closer to home. Problem with that is staff there just got paid. I won't get my wages there until next month. I'll have to ask my grandad to borrow money, which I really don't want to do, but what choice do I have?

I was thinking about putting up my score on an OCEAN personality test but I just kinda thought why bother? People love taking tests. People think that they're the be all and end all of personality. That's not true. I tend to score low on Agreeableness but people tell me that I'm great to talk to, and I don't try to argue with people unless they really get under my skin. Speaking of people getting under my skin: men! Just kidding, I'm not one of those girlboss, gatekeep, gynecologist kind of girls who hates men but still sleeps with them for the fancy dates (not that most girls do that). There's just a few that irk me. Luckily, there's a constant revolving door of men coming in and out of my life so as soon as one pisses me off he's gone. I did meet someone new last week though, at my favourite bar in London, and he's amazing.

NQ64 is a chain of barcades in Birmingham, Shoreditch, and Soho. I can't remember how I found it but I fell in love with the place and became a regular; I used to finish working in Theatreland around 11PM or 12AM and stay at NQ64 until 3AM! Back when I had money it was about 3 - 4 cocktails a night and top scores on the Guitar Hero machines. My favourite machine out of all of them is OutRun 2. Whenever I go to the barcade now I play OutRun like 5 or 6 times before I leave (my friends hate it) 'cos I love kicking everyone's assess! OutRun 2 and Point Blank and the games I'm best at. SO when this very cute, little dorky, older guy and his friend sit next to me and my best friend, of course I had to flex my godly driving skills (I cannot drive IRL). Unfortunately, the cute guy didn't put his coins in the machine in time so it was just me vs. his friend. Maybe it wasn't unfortunate because his friend sucked ass. I was in the lead, of course, about 5 seconds away from the finishing line when I yell:

"Hey player 4! If I beat you, I get your cute friend's number!"

So I won. The cute guy looks over at me and says "I think I'm a little too old for you" but I dismiss it and get his number. His name is Prize, and though I've only known him for four days, I would die for him.