Summer's over. Fall quarter's nearly over. And I haven't posted one word.
I wish I could say it's because I've been so busy, but mostly it's because I hate writing about myself when I could be writing fantastical fiction.
So yeah. Sorry.
So much has happened that I have to give a quick summary:
- Looks like I'll be studying abroad at Kobe University this Spring/Summer
- I loved my summer job, though the loneliness was tough
- I want to look into more tourism/museum jobs because I loved it so much
- I would also like to work at an embassy or consulate at some point to see what it's like
- I want to also potentially give tutoring in english to Japanese, but that could probably happen while I am actually in Japan
- My classes ate me alive through the first half of the quarter, though things are finally starting to look up
- Fourth-Year Japanese is impossible to 4.0, even if you're a Developmental Bilingual in Japanese, who one of the people in my class is. (Developmental Bilingual means that you grew up speaking two languages, in this case English and Japanese)
- I am hopefully not failing fourth-year, but the jury's still out on that one
- I won't be able to take fourth-year next quarter so I'll be making my own little Japanese study based vaguely on what we've been doing in class this quarter.
- I do, however, love my fourth-year Japanese prof. She's great. And nicer than third year's prof. I had the best TA ever for third year though, which made life tolerable.
- I am sort of keeping my life under control, though the same cannot be said for my desk space and bed.
- I have not had as much time to cook as I would like
- My best friend and another really good friend are up here in Seattle with me now and it makes my heart sing.
- I wish I had more time to write. I would threaten to do the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, where you aspire to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November), but it's already the 19th and well, no. It's not going to happen.
- I finally showed someone besides myself one of my songs that I wrote the lyrics to and also came up with a tune. Now I just have to figure out how to guitar and keyboard and drum it (synthesizer?) and record myself (and autotune so it sounds reasonable) and then possibly I will put it somewhere for people to hear.
- I have other songs. I would like to do something with them at one point but not now.
- This is the most convoluted bullet point list ever because it's basically a stream-of-consciousness list at this point.
- I probably should have skipped the bullets, but it's too late now.
- I'm just glad I didn't number this list or things could have really gone south.
- ANYway.
- I can't think of anything else at the moment
