I'm still alive! And quite poor. But happy.

I am in love. Don't tell Merrick. It's him, though. Just so you know.

And we're not even close. We're far away. Ninety or so miles, to be exact. Wait, that's not exact. Just a minute. 105 miles away. From each other.

*Sigh*

I've had my first kiss by now, by the way. :)   :)   :)

I actually moved away from Atlantis a while ago.

But do you want to know what the glorious thing about this is? I can type this to you all, my dear readers, from my blog dashboard. No more cheating by doing it through e-mail anymore.

*Sigh*

I don't want to be rude, but I am in the palace library, but it's open to the public. Thus the dude sitting next to me who smells strongly of something or other. I don't know what the smell is, but it is strong and woodsy, or smelly, and not in a good kind of way. But distinct. Maybe sawdust? Or... egh! heheh. I'm sure I smell bad sometimes.

But still! *shiver*

And my nose isn't getting used to it! That's uncommon, you know? Usually, you know, how you get used to a smell after a while? That's why, when you go to candle-selling parties or whatever, where there are many different scents to explore, they have a little dish of coffee beans or something like that for you to shock your smell-glands (?) and re-start your senses.

I live in a huge city now. What is it called? I can't divulge the name to you..... because I forgot what it's called.

Actually, to be honest... I am supposed to explain what its name is. It's so hard to be imaginitive when I'm distractable. And hungry! Not the point. I need to leave the palace soon, as the hour of eight draws near, and head to my quarters in the ancient ruins section of the city. If I don't, I'll run into raucous rabble as it grows dark.

I am a princess, and this time I truly get to be a princess in rags. It's like, I'm trying slowly to rise.

Now, here's something I was thinking about today when I was on the crystal train. You want me to tell you? Okay.

So. The city I'm living in is Ascadia, with many a watercraft roaming about, underground tunnels, and ancient ruins on the outskirts.

When I take the crystal train, or the hover-strip, and the Whisper, I have time to think. This time, I was thinking about how hard I am working to find employment.

As a girl of royalty, who

*my nooooooseee*

By the way, I am reading The Wallflower by Tomoko Hayakawa in English. Yes, I have broken down and started reading manga in English, instead of trying to learn Japanese first. I have no access to Anime, since I have no apartment of my own, and left my personal computer back with my boyfriend, Merrick, in Atlantis, the only way I can access J-media is to read manga at my public library at the palace here in Ascadia. I haven't been studying the language of Nippon (sorry, this isnt my Japanese keyboard) either, because I've been focusing on employment.

But back to that. As a girl of royalty, I've got to keep my status on the down-low. I dress normally as possible, and sift myself among the normal people

*hence the smiffy shmellick ick ick ..... smell*

Ha ha ha!

Anyway, I'm being mean and gossipy and it's pointless. My point! My point, was, okay.

I hang around the normal people. As part of my adventure, I have to survive without help from my contacts and royal support system. Instead of asking permission to receive funds from the golden treasury like I did after my sixteenth birthday, I have no access to it at all. This adventure certainly is a challenge, I will admit it.

I have to find my own food, which I pathetically leach from our very own government of which I have a part in the say of, and I also request other services of it.

With this bit of help here, and that bit of help there, and advice from about twenty people (maybe more, no joke!) I might be getting by as a normal Kaeto-Atlantian citizen. We shall see!

For now, I have been submitting numerous applications to companies and tall, shiny buildings in the vicinity of and nearby the city of Ascadia. As of today, I have attended one interview with personnel from a high-end merchandise store, and have another set for tomorrow for a barista position.

Prayer to the beautiful God I know as Christ!

Alas, my time is up. I must now exit the central palace and head to the ancients, where I shall read The Wallflower and enjoy a night in the dreamworld.