10/10/2005: "What do you dream about..?"

What do you dream about at night? During the day..? What is it that brings tomorrow through the night?

Anyway..

I'm starting to think that I should write a secondary, shorter journal entry in Japanese. Or maybe even just keep a paper-and-pen journal and just write a short daily Japanese entry. I hear it helps for getting better at a foreign language. Unfortunately, it doesn't help getting better at speaking of becoming conversational, two of the harder things to do when learning Japanese in America.

What else has been going on in life? Not all that much. This weekend was somewhat low-key, but most of my weekends tend to be that way. Met with someone on Friday to practice Japanese, then spent most of the weekend doing some backend website work (adding the GBemulator), playing games ("Lost In Blue" [DS], "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" [Xbox]), watching movies, and working on a game (CCSakura Gradius-style game [pc]). Now that the weekend's over, though, I have two tests coming up, along with whatever else gets thrown on top during the week. I'm not too concerned about the Japanese test, but quite bothered by the Art one. Need to memorize a bunch of technical details about 10 predetermined works of art, and study the elements of art design and principles so I can write several essays on the fly. Honestly, I think the guy's insane if he thinks we're going to be able to hand-write 10-15 pages of essays in less than an hour. I guess I'll update how that goes later this week.

Still not sleeping much, but.. that's not really new. I'm going to sleep slightly earlier tonight.. I hope it has an impact.

When I get some free time (no clue when/if that'll happen. Maybe December.. I'll have a few weeks off), I want to just sit down and do those things I used to enjoy wasting hours on end doing. Maybe start FFVII [PSX] again and play it all the way through.. I've been wanting to do that anyway. I'd also like to code games with a little more regularity. I have enough ideas and I think I have the ability to do it.. I just don't have to time to devote to it right now.

This week will be busy, hopefully next week won't be so bad (just one test next week, unless I get a kanji test thrown at me from my Japanese teacher). Basically, I just need to throw myself at my art book and notes for the next few days and hope for the best. Wish me luck.

But now, I'm going to bed. Or, at least, I'll be laying in my bed. I'll update later, when I can.


Jason