03/13/2006: "[Traveling] Moving to a place I don't yet know"

[Note: this was written yesterday with no access.. I'll write something up to date in a few days]

It's now been 12 hours since I woke up today, and I'm now in a hotel/condo/what-have-you in another state, watching a Star Wars special on the History Channel. I didn't sleep much last night, and sleeping in the car is never fun, which ultimately means that I'm not even all that awake. Yay!

In all actuality, it's Sunday night right now, but I don't have internet access, so this will (hopefully) be posted on Monday night, when I (should) be online again.

This week has definitely been interesting, to say the least, though I feel bad that I haven't been in the best of emotional and mental states over the week. It always leaves me wondering if I'm missing out on some things I should be doing in life that I just don't see.

Of course, I had to get my Japanese speech corrected and read, but I also had to get my midterms done this week. That was incredibly hectic, having to study for two midterms in one day, and then actually getting through the tests themselves. I think I should've done fine in one test, but the other one (essay-style), is a bit more up in the air. Alas, there's nothing I can do about that.

But for the less-than-positive start to the week, I was invited to go out bowling with a bunch of Taiwanese students Thursday night until about midnight or so, which was alot of fun (though bowling isn't really my sport of choice), even if there was alot of Mandarin spoken that I honestly didn't understand. Friday night, I went out again with the same group to go play poker and Mahjong from 10PM-3AM. I actually won two hands of Mahjong, too, which is at least something to feel slightly satisfied with. I think going out and was probably good, so hopefully it's something I can keep up with and do more of in the future.

Just really been lost and introspective lately. I was kinda hoping I could try to deal with, or sleep through, that over spring break, but due to the fact that I'm traveling and going to be busy every day running around in large entertainment places (tomorrow/Monday is SeaWorld, after that, Disneyland I think), I probably won't be able to think about all this much. Instead, we play games and read books. We try to ignore it. This won't do much good, but it's about all the choice I seem to have right now.

Gah.. and I hurt my finger. It's puffy and hurts. Sucky. Hopefully it should be better in a few days.

Anyway, that's about all I have to say. I should go look for the moon tonight so I can sketch it up for my school assignment, read for a bit, and then probably go to bed. In the morning.. not sure yet, but tentatively, I plan on playing pool in the morning, if for no other reason than that it's fun.

I'll try to keep up to date on the trip, ideally I'll have pictures to post, too. I'll post again soon-ish.


Jason