04/05/2006: "[Library] One step at a time"

Taking a brief break from studying my speech in order to type up a brief message and post it online for the world to read (not that the world's interested, but we're talking about "in theory" here).

I'm at roughly the.. 35-40% mark in the speech, and can recite it with a fair degree of accuracy. Emoting is still not coming across well, so I need to work on that. As soon as I finish this, I'm going to pace around outside so I can actually read it aloud, instead of just reciting it in my head, hoping that vocalizing it will help build the oh-so-valuable connections in my brain to help me remember it clearer (which, in theory and in practice, it usually does). These are the mornings that I wake up as wish that I was actually good at Japanese, where things feel so discouraging. It's probably because I haven't been sleeping much or well (most of the sleep I do get is fairly light, I wake up frequently, and odd-to-troublesome dreams).

So! This means that I've been playing "Sims 2" again lately, and intend to play more of it upon getting home. It's a fun game, and micromanaging someone else's life is so much nicer than my own.

Other than this, I don't have too much to say. Killing time until my afternoon class, go home, go to school tomorrow, waste Friday, do the speech Saturday.. and that's as far as I have planned.

Why is my afternoon class so boring? Too boring, in fact. I just can't pay attention. I write notes, I read the book (the day before the test), and my grades are alright, but when I'm in class, the time drags out and it feels like I've been there all day. The morning one isn't so bad, just really long. However, today we ate M&Ms in class and did activities for most of the time. Much more fun.

I'm going to head off and speak Japanese in public, and people are going to stare at me.

I'll write sometime a bit later, and I'll try to post about the contest once I know the results. Hopefully, it won't go too poorly..


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