Blast from the Past

So, my high-school girlfriend from a couple decades back called me over the weekend, and we talked for a couple of hours (or, really, she mostly talked and I mostly listened, but, in my case, that's more or less to be expected).  Let's just say I'm "conflicted", and leave it at that for now.

こんばんは

Ran across some cheap language-learning software on my last trip out of town, and I decided, given my addictions to manga and anime, that it might be fun to take a stab at learning Japanese.  It's only a week, and I've already discovered that I'm in for way more than I bargained for, thanks to multiple writing systems, of which I would only classify two as "sane", from what I've seen so far.  Still, I'm hopeful that I can pick up on it all, in time... after all, many people would classify me as only partially sane, so it should be a good fit... ;)

Oh, as far as the title of this post goes?  That's the Hiragana representation of the word "konbanwa", which means "good evening", which I can never think without hearing it in Alfred Hitchcock's voice.  It's one of the few words I know how to spell so far (as long as I'm using a keyboard... I don't know how long it will take me to attempt writing by hand), so I thought it might be a fun test of how this blog system handles non-English scripts.