05/15/2006: "[Library] Halfway there"

One test is out of the way, now I just need to review the book and my notes, pretend to study, and take my last final of this semester. Lots and lots of essay writing to do, so I just hope that my hand survives through it all.

All my other school admissions stuff is done now, though I still need to modify my class schedule (I'm trying to get into the next level of Japanese, and hopefully some other Japanese courses), but I don't think that can be done until the first week of classes. I also need to get an id for the new school, which I'll be doing later this week.

I've been looking for a new translation project to start soon. I find that trying to translate something is at the very least a good challenge for your language skills, but it also does help to better learn new vocabulary (something that is really difficult to do when learning a foreign language). The question is: what? I could probably start looking at video-game translations, but that's going to involve a week or so of reading documents on how to hack the games, etc. It'd be better if I could find someone to regularly speak Japanese with to try to get better and more fluent, and to make sure I don't lose anything over the summer.. but that's easier said than done.

Didn't really sleep much last night, for some reason or another. I kept waking up about every hour, and then finally just got up to get on with the day. In my early-morning haze, I managed to forget everything I needed for my second exam (notebook, test paper, and book), which I discovered, to my horror, once I made it to school. I was able to get in touch with someone and get everything, though, so it should be alright. If worse comes to worse, I can always just drink as much caffeine and sugar as my body will allow right before the test, and then go through it. I've done this in the past and, while not the best idea, it works alright. I did pass that other class, with a high A and was exempt from the final. Yay for caffeine!

I should look over my book and review the questions for the final, and then sell it back, like a good, true capitalist.

I think this will be the last time I'm writing from this library, if not the last time I'm ever at this campus (though I'll probably be here again eventually, dragged down to get someone's school transcripts with them). Do I feel nostalgiac? Not really. I can't say my experience has been good or bad, just a means to an end. This isn't to say that I haven't gained from this, both personally and intellectually, but not to the extent that I look back and sigh, wondering where the years went.

Off I go, to study and then the final.

..... and I forgot to grab "Xenosaga, Ep 1-2" [DS]... not fair!


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