If only there was a single go-to role model who I could model myself after. Things would probably seem easier. I would have more direction and structure with what I would do with my life.
But that's not how things are.
I can deal with that.
Things would probably be way too boring, anyway. Things would never change. Things would never get better.
So, let's start.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Waiting Again
Actually, I shouldn't be waiting. Or at least, waiting shouldn't be the only think I'm doing. We're getting to the end of the school year out here. In a couple of weeks, I should have turned in all of my assignments for the term, assuring that in order to graduate next March, I'll only have to show up for my seminar and turn in a massive 80,000 character dissertation. (Thesis? I don't know what to call it in English.)
In another window, I have a just-started essay. The idea was to have a draft done by the morning. We'll see.
Right. Waiting. Pretty much, I just wanted to bitch and moan about how it takes so long for western movies to have theatrical releases out here. I Love You, Phillip Morris was an exception, and that was because of release issues back in the states. Because it's a pretty gay movie? Well, real life can be pretty gay, my friends. It's nice to see the movie industry moving in a direction that doesn't freak out as much about releasing and promoting films where the "gay" thing isn't just added to drag out laughs from people who otherwise cannot cope with reality.
Speaking of kinda gay movies, I'm waiting to see Black Swan. So far, I don't think that a release date has been announced for Japan. I wonder if it will still be in theaters back in the states in March? (I never know whether to end "I wonder if..." sentences with periods or question marks. They're statements, right? But when we say them aloud we always raise the end like a question, so... I am confused. And my grammar handbook is on the other side of my apartment, which is tiny, but I think I'll just go without knowing for now.)
So, yes! I'm going back to WA-WA-WA-Washington in March. And this time, I'm bringing someone along. My stomach squiggles whenever I think about it. I can only imagine what's going on in her stomach.
Terror?
Did I blog about terror and horror about a month ago? I should have, if I didn't. But, I think I did. So, I'll just let that go for now, too.
In another window, I have a just-started essay. The idea was to have a draft done by the morning. We'll see.
Right. Waiting. Pretty much, I just wanted to bitch and moan about how it takes so long for western movies to have theatrical releases out here. I Love You, Phillip Morris was an exception, and that was because of release issues back in the states. Because it's a pretty gay movie? Well, real life can be pretty gay, my friends. It's nice to see the movie industry moving in a direction that doesn't freak out as much about releasing and promoting films where the "gay" thing isn't just added to drag out laughs from people who otherwise cannot cope with reality.
Speaking of kinda gay movies, I'm waiting to see Black Swan. So far, I don't think that a release date has been announced for Japan. I wonder if it will still be in theaters back in the states in March? (I never know whether to end "I wonder if..." sentences with periods or question marks. They're statements, right? But when we say them aloud we always raise the end like a question, so... I am confused. And my grammar handbook is on the other side of my apartment, which is tiny, but I think I'll just go without knowing for now.)
So, yes! I'm going back to WA-WA-WA-Washington in March. And this time, I'm bringing someone along. My stomach squiggles whenever I think about it. I can only imagine what's going on in her stomach.
Terror?
Did I blog about terror and horror about a month ago? I should have, if I didn't. But, I think I did. So, I'll just let that go for now, too.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
An Experiment.
たまには、日本語でブログを書こうかな？
mixiで、あまり書く気がしない。ときどき、いっぱい書くけど。
でも、ここなら、いいかな。ほとんど誰も、このブログのことは知らないし。
別に、誰かに見せたいという気持ちで作ったわけでもない。
気が向いたら、日本語で書くかもしれない。
mixiで、あまり書く気がしない。ときどき、いっぱい書くけど。
でも、ここなら、いいかな。ほとんど誰も、このブログのことは知らないし。
別に、誰かに見せたいという気持ちで作ったわけでもない。
気が向いたら、日本語で書くかもしれない。
Monday, January 10, 2011
As the World Turns
We've entered yet another period wherein I am guaranteed to accidentally write the wrong date on all of my papers, now haven't we? Goodbye, 2010. You were very confusing with high highs and low lows. But you know what? You finished well enough. I would give you an overall pretty okay grade.
But now that the date has changed, even if only on the calendar, and not yet in my heart, it's time to kick it up.
There's a great English-language used books store in Ebisu called Good Day Books that I first went to over three years ago with a friend. I remembered really enjoying the bookstore and also getting my head smooshed in the doors of the elevator. Since then, I hadn't gone again. I never really took the time to explore Ebisu save a couple times where a friend would suggest meeting there to check out a new cafe, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography or just walk from there to somewhere else. Actually, just a few days ago was much the same as that. The plan was to go to an exhibit at the museum that we had missed the day before, but by the time we arrived at Ebisu, it was too late to actually enter the exhibit. Instead, we killed some time at the bookstore before heading off to meet some folks in Shinjuku.
I guess I had forgotten how nice the bookstore was. The first thing I saw when we safely made it out of the elevator was a book I had bookmarked on Amazon, one of the few books on the Foreign Service Officer Test's reading list that isn't a textbook, and thus well out of my modest price range.
I'm almost halfway through it now. Ideally, I would like to just be studying for all of that right now, but I am a student, and I do have a somewhat silly course load this term. Today I plan to get my XML in order for Thursday. I'll finish reading for my presentation on Thursday in another class. Hell, maybe I'll even check that English that I've been putting off for months.
But now that the date has changed, even if only on the calendar, and not yet in my heart, it's time to kick it up.
There's a great English-language used books store in Ebisu called Good Day Books that I first went to over three years ago with a friend. I remembered really enjoying the bookstore and also getting my head smooshed in the doors of the elevator. Since then, I hadn't gone again. I never really took the time to explore Ebisu save a couple times where a friend would suggest meeting there to check out a new cafe, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography or just walk from there to somewhere else. Actually, just a few days ago was much the same as that. The plan was to go to an exhibit at the museum that we had missed the day before, but by the time we arrived at Ebisu, it was too late to actually enter the exhibit. Instead, we killed some time at the bookstore before heading off to meet some folks in Shinjuku.
I guess I had forgotten how nice the bookstore was. The first thing I saw when we safely made it out of the elevator was a book I had bookmarked on Amazon, one of the few books on the Foreign Service Officer Test's reading list that isn't a textbook, and thus well out of my modest price range.
I'm almost halfway through it now. Ideally, I would like to just be studying for all of that right now, but I am a student, and I do have a somewhat silly course load this term. Today I plan to get my XML in order for Thursday. I'll finish reading for my presentation on Thursday in another class. Hell, maybe I'll even check that English that I've been putting off for months.
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