November 11. 2004 23:06

Sleep deprivation, random stuff

Right now I wanna go see a movie. They're all dubbed, I bet, and cost a lot, but right now I really want to. If I'm still feeling like this in a couple of days, maybe I could. I'll pick some nice eastern movie so it doesn't matter if I don't understand it all, I can just enjoy the mood. And I really wanna go and buy all the Inuyasha manga before I spoil the plot completely by flapping through the newest issues in Shonen Sunday or reading this in the Internet. If I have time Sunday evening, I'm gonna go to the Book-Off and see if there are any. I'd really want to buy a set with all the volumes, but that one I one saw in Book-Off is long gone and I have no idea when there's gonna be a next one, and I'm not sure if I can hold on until then.

I've been so tired lately. I've been up until 3 every night doing something and with that I only get like 6 hours of sleep. I've been fighting to get through the lecture classes in school... But today it's a holiday (even though Matt-sensei said it isn't and thus me and Dion went to school to find it all empty) so when I came back from lunch I went to bed and slept until now. Ah, it feels so good. My head usually gets dizzy if I sleep at strange times when I'm too tired, but now it's not that bad. I saw really silly dreams, too. One was about our family having some vacation at some place and me being in danger to drown in a mixture of a landslide of sand and a waterfall and us finding a swarm of small mice with physical/mental disabilities from birth at a beach (they were wrinkling around like crazy... my sis selected two that looked sane and healthy to take home, but the one I selected wasn't that good, though it was cute). Then there was another about some group of people, organized by a man who I think was rich but had lost his job or whatever would make him busy and part of the society, and they (or the head man) had rented a floor in some building to have room for their projects, of which I don't remember much but apparently they were a little dodgy though pretty harmless. The floor they rented was the fifth but they used the abandoned upper floors and kept the fifth as a storage space, and then the other businesses in the building found out about the storage space and sent police after the group (and their apparently illegal business), so the group had to flee and leave all their stuff behind in the building. There were some really nice people in this group, so I felt sorry when they had to leave it all. (One of the people felt like Tonks from the Harry Potter books, and I think one was my friend CommanderJay, who had a thing for Gundam and chose the extremely rare Gundam collector's items as the thing she took with her when she left O_o)

Yesterday I had very much progress with that web project. (Why am I not mentioning it by name here? Maybe because I don't want to draw attention to what it is...) That's why I stayed up last night. Today I think I could get the changes done so I could leave that be until they ask me to do more changes. (And then I can do the NaNoManga ^__^ I haven't been doing it at all and I'm soon running out of time... But somehow I think this is more important... I'm pretty lazy about priorisizing before I really have to and that lead to not being able to do the stuff I'd love to that well ^_^;;) Yesterday I was up because I downloaded some Inuyasha doujinshi so I could translate it at some point (again something I want to do, but that has to wait until next month) and the day before that... I can't remember. Probably stuff about the web project again.

Tuesday I walked into the preparations of a thai music and dance performance when I left the library after school. I stayed around to watch it and the dance was really nice. The music was nice, too, I was especially impressed by this one guy that got all sorts of new sounds out of his guitar by slapping it, but then I got so tired that I went home. I met Laura's dad there, by the way, he's staying here for a while, too. And Dion's mum and his little brother and his girlfriend are coming later on. It's fun how everyone has their parents come by ^_^

There hasn't been anything really Japanese going on in my life lately... Except that I have great trouble trying to speak politely to people... I always forget to use the polite forms with teachers or such. They ask me something in plain form because they are allowed, and I just reply in plain form out of insticts though I should be talking in polite form. It's so hard when I don't know Japanese well ^_^;;; I should be studying harder because I still haven't improved much from when I came here, but I haven't found an efficient way to do it. I don't want to just sit and read word lists ^_^; I thought translating stuff might be a good way to learn, but I'm keeping that for after I finish the NaNoManga. I have a report for the Network Art course due to next week, though, so that'll be interesting. And when I'm finished with some manga I'm gonna translate them to Japanese, and that'll be quite an experience, because I have to put in the different speaking styles for different sexes and age types ^_^;; Most of it will have to be done by the tutors, but I hope I'll learn something.

I still haven't figured out what to do with that electronic dictionary... I'll try asking the people at the International Office next week, but I'll have to read the guarantee first. I'd really want a Japanese speaking person with me to the store, but I don't know who I'd dare ask... Asking for this kind of favours is difficult ^_^;

Ah, now I think I'll go get some orange. I've been keeping to my new diet as best I can, but yesterday when I ate dinner I got so full I couldn't finish it O_o That's a really strange thing to happen when you're on a diet... And the lunch today was so big. But I don't think I've been eating too much, at least as far as my calculations go. Maybe it was all the fruit, or maybe my stomach has gotten smaller. I'm not at all sure how to take this eating as much fruit as I can thing... I feel like I'm eating all the time, too much for a diet, but fruits are supposed to be all right. Even the Weight Watchers don't count oranges. So even though I feel like I'm eating too much, I think I'll keep to this for at least a while... By the way, it's really strange to be talking about dieting all the time. It feels like it's so not me, so "vain" in some ways. But well, that's what I'm doing, so... I guess it deserves a little space in my diary O_o

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Damn, there went my evening. My anti-virus program found a trojan in my IE and couldn't erase it... (Why does this always happen?) So I had to try and take it out by hand. I have no idea if I succeeded (I'm not good enough at these sort of things to be sure), but the anti-virus program can't find it anymore and there seem to be no changes in the files the trojan was supposed to affect, so I hope it's okay like that. Viruses are so annoying, they make me stop whatever it is I'm doing so I can deal with them, and usually I'm not even sure if I did everything right...