02/02/2007: "If you pretend to study long enough, you'll actually get something done!"

Another week passes, and I've made it through again in one piece. Not sure if this should be noteworthy and counted as a significant achievement or not, but at least I'm pretty happy about it. For some reason, I'm still not really sleeping as of late, no matter how tired I try to make myself. I'm suspecting it's a sort of sick conspiracy against myself.. started, maintained, and run by me. On the positive side, all the classes that involve critical thinking or actual work are in the mornings, but it also means that Tuesday (after a good 3-4 hours of sleep) afternoon was a long haul while I tried to see if I could catch precious minutes of sleep during the lectures inbetween my teachers' critical looks.

In a nutshell: I transcribed more of "Gone with the Wind" from a book in both English and Japanese, I watched "Gone with the Wind" due to said project, watched a 2 hour long Japanese movie (with no subtitles.. I caught the gist of it, but I couldn't tell you fine details) that was actually pretty terrible (the book was better), read some stories, took a Japanese chapter test, and spent several hours locked away in the library "studying" (the ratio of 'work' to 'conversing, drawing on the marker board, and playing around' is a little skewed). But if you do that long enough, 3 hours of "studying" becomes 1 hour of actual, legitimate studying. So, it's fine.

No plans for this weekend thus far. I don't think anything's going to be coming up anytime soon either, so it looks like I'll be trying to get some work done on Sunday and waste Saturday away (unless something shows up). If I'm lucky, I'll sleep in and be in bed for much of the weekend, but I really don't imagine that's going to happen.

Off for dinner!


Jason