01/30/2008: "[At Work] You say 'tomato', I say... 'tomato'."

There is something mildly worse than having a teacher who absolutely adores homework: having that same teacher for two classes. Yes, that is most certainly a little less than awesome. I keep trying to tell myself that all this experience, all the work will pay off in one way or another. Having all sorts of homework is good for you, because it makes you experience it more and more, which will ideally lead to better skills through familiarity.

Alas, I'm not sure I buy that entirely.. especially when I'm given texts from pre-WWII to spend the majority of my time reading. Now, of course, you say "But Jason, that's only 60-70 years ago! How can you ignore material so recent?". Simple: Because I don't want to talk like an old man, AND the entire language system (including how some things were written, what uses kanji and what uses kana) was redone after WWII. Not a 100% change, but still a slightly different beast. Unless, of course, other people enjoy talking like a member of upper-crust 1930s society..

Anyway, it's good for me, I'm able to find the time to do all the work (though sometimes I have to squeeze it in), and all is okay. I'm just really tired as of late. Probably something to do with the 'work and school' thing.

I would, ideally, like to go back to having hobbies, but I think that's something that will have to wait. My schedule right now is pretty much full from morning to night, and then on the weekend I try to go out and do something. Haven't figured out what that will be this weekend, but I might go out to play soccer or basketball or something. Whatever.. it'll be interesting either way. I think my biggest concern, and the reason why I try to push the school work as hard as I can, is that I'll become apathetic in my last semester. I hate to say it, but it's really easy to just not care when you know that you'll graduate no matter what you do, as long as you have a C in all your classes or higher. I intend to push my grades to the end.. but still..

If anything, I need to still do better than everyone else just so I can keep being arrogant and telling people what to do with their lives, school, etc. Seriously, if I'm not doing the right thing, I can't very well maintain a holier-than-thou attitude, now can I? I mean, sure.. one should ideally not do that, but where's the fun in that? It's also important so that way I have a leg to stand on when I try to offer advice to people about learning English. I'd just simply be a bad example..!

That's about all that's going on right now, so I'm afraid I don't have much of interest to say, other than I've been picking up and selling things to get ready to leave the country. Got a new digital camera for awesome-travel-action, which should be arriving sometime in the next few days. Ideally, this will lead to me taking more pictures, since I somehow feel that I'm not taking nearly enough pictures to document my life. At the very least, I should fully cover Korea, and soon Japan. You never know.. when I'm older, I might have a desire to look at 4,000 pictures of when I was 22. Probably not, but who knows?

Have some other stuff to do, but that about sums up life for me right around now. Nothing terribly exciting..!

I should get back to burning more cds for work.. I'll write again sometime soon!


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