11/08/2007: "[At School] Home before 7.. yeah!"

Mm.. wrote a 1.5 page Japanese essay yesterday (for the record, since Japanese use different writing papers, basically with grids and boxes to write each character in, there are 400 characters per page.. this doesn't mean a whole lot to those who don't write in Japanese, I guess), have two tests today (statistics and psychology), and a Japanese test on Tuesday. Busy, busy.. oh, and busy. I think this weekend will be pretty low key, but I do need to find someone to run over my Japanese test/study guide with to make sure I actually understand what I'm doing. I guess I'll send out some e-mails tonight or something and see if anyone can spare some of their Veterans' Day to help me with the Japanese-ing.

I don't really have a whole lot to say, other than reiterate how tired I am. Things are kinda shaky with the school I was going to work at in Japan, but it's still only November, so I probably will start to apply to some other schools. Where, why, and how aren't really important to me, just as long as I have some place willing to commit to hire me as soon as I graduate. To say that I'm nervous really would be an understatement for this whole thing.. but at this point, I think choices are a bit limited. Often, whether we like it or not, we have to throw ourselves face-first into situations where we have no idea of the outcome. Will I fail? Succeed? Hate it there? Love it? I have no way of knowing. I think it's the permanence of it all. If I don't like it.. too bad, I'm stuck. If I do.. that's great. But when we worry about things, we don't really think much about the best-case scenario, now do we?

Outside of testing, testing, writing essays, doing research, and studying.. I don't do a whole lot. But last weekend, I did go minigolfing with one of the students at the school here (it was fun, had a good time), and yesterday I went to go see my cousin's team play at my university. They won, it was great, happiness was had by all. Of course, the odd part is that her university and mine have something of a rivalry, but at least I'm not much for school pride so it wasn't too big of a situation.

Speaking of school pride.. I need to buy a t-shirt from the school before I leave, and ideally a coffee mug. Sure, I don't drink coffee, but I'm sure I'll want to have a university mug to drink from when I'm older and remember "the good ol' days" (which, I assure you, will be MUCH exagerated. There will be parties, wild, out-of-control pranks, and 'that professor that I had a rivalry with')

I should get going.. have to go Japanese it up for awhile, then go fill in circles and pretend I know what I'm doing on some tests. On a positive note, I'm getting home before 7pm for once! That's, indeed, pretty awesome. Maybe I can eat.. lately, I haven't been hungry at all, and I'm only eating about once a day. Definitely not a good thing. I'd blame anxiety/stress.. but that's a whole different conversation that I certainly don't intend to go into.

I will, however, try to get around to uploading some minigolf and halloween pictures this weekend. And next weekend, someone's birthday party. There will probably be photos of that too.


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