No Japan trip.

Welp, that settles that.

elenuial's family has two possible times for planning on going to Japan this summer. First is end of may to beginning of June, and the other is in September. He wants me to come along, and the first time we've talked about dates is today.

The first one, it would only be him, his brother, and his dad, and it would also coincide with moving to the second floor. And it would be awkward to not bring the whole family, but instead bring the girlfriend. So, no to that option.

The second option is in September, about two months after the puppy comes home. Also not an option.

And the trip will probably be for about a month.

That definitely doesn't work at all. Not only would that mean boarding the puppy for the first month of his adolescence, but also missing the first month of classes should I decide to go back to school.

And I don't get time to think about it or any alternatives - they gave him the dates today, and he says that knowing his family, he has a matter of about a day to decide. So I have two bad options and no time to think about them. Of course the answer's going to be no.

I mean, I'd basically figured a while ago that I wouldn't be going for one reason or another, but still.

Today's pretty much sucked.