02/25/2008: "Finally, up with the pictures!"

Pictures attached, under "more.." at the end of this entry. Nothing too exciting, just decorating and stuff for Valentine's Day. This weekend, I bought decorations for St. Patrick's Day and will decorate.. probably on Friday, so it'll be up for about 2 weeks. Seriously, someone better do the decorating when I'm gone, or I'm gonna be really annoyed. It's partly because I firmly believe that these people who aren't natively from America should be exposed to American traditions, holidays, and culture. If you're ever to learn the language, you must also understand the values and ideals that influence the language. Second.. I spend about 22hrs+ there a week, so it might as well look nice and decorative!

Everything is still in flux right now in my life.. not too keen on the turns things are taking, but there's not a whole lot I can do about it. Go to bed at night, suck it up, get back into the groove of things in the morning. Alas, again, I can't exactly give details of what's up.. but it's none too chipper. I figure, like most things, it will come to pass. Life has a tendency of working that way. The name of the game is to just bunker down and keep at it until things blow over, and then ideally you can pull your head up again and face the future head on.

OTHER THAN THAT! Things are all right. I think I did okay on my two tests last week (not 100%, but doing pretty well), and I'm (mostly) keeping up with my studies. Japanese is tough.. and classical Japanese is even more insane. When I enrolled in a Japanese class years ago, I just wanted to be able to watch anime and be able to read some basic stuff. As I studied another year, I figured someday I'd be able to passably communicate. The idea that I'd be translating poems written in Japanese 1100 years ago never crossed my mind. I know I've said for years that I'd move to Japan, but you know.. the funny thing is that I never thought it'd happen!

So, I guess I should study a bit and then go to bed. Study, sleep, work, work, sleep, study.. that's.. pretty much what I do. Korea will definitely be a nice break; not only out of schedule, but to go see people I haven't seen in 4 months and just run around, not worrying about having to do x, or make sure y's done by a certain time.

Wish me luck.. back to adventure!

(and be sure to check the pictures!)


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Jason

On Tuesday, February 26th, MinaMina said:

Is that a Starbucks cup I see in picture two??

On Tuesday, February 26th, Jason said:

Indeed, it is! It's actually for my coworker (who can be seen in picture 1), but there's one on campus that I go to fairly frequently. I generally opt for the Green Tea Latte, in case anyone cares.. it's pretty good.

On Thursday, February 28th, MinaMina said:

My usual choice is just a plain drip -- no cream; no sugar. I'll have to give the Green Tea Latte a try because I do care for hot green tea.