November 16. 2004 19:29

Displeasure

Waah! There were such tasty-looking inari sushi and American dogs at Maruzen, but I was a good girl and kept to my diet... I underestimated the size of the dish at school so I only had plain fish tonight... It was good, but I so wanted to eat the sushi and the American dogs :( (I'll have to keep a day off if I'm gonna eat them...) But I'm doing well with the diet! I remembered a while ago that I've completely forgotten about the morning exercises. Probably forgot them while my parents were here. I'm really not up to starting them again now, though. Too much to do already, I don't want any extra stress.

Today I used my winter coat for the first time. It's still warm enough to wear only a warm shirt or sweater during the day, but the mornings and nights are getting very cold. I don't like this time of year, when I have to dress warmly in the morning, then take half of it off for the day, and again put everything on in the evening.

Ah, I'm so tired... I have a report due tomorrow, about the things of Japanese culture that interest me, and I've been working on it all day... I started yesterday, but I couldn't translate the topic too well, so it was no use. I didn't go to Studio class today, but stayed at the International Center instead, writing the report. I asked one of the Japanese to translate the topic, then wrote the thing in English and then tried to translate it. But it was way too difficult for my feeble Japanese skills... So I had to take the whole thing to Takeda-sensei, one of the tutors, and he translated it for me. I feel kinda bad to make him translate and not teach me, like he's supposed to, but there wasn't really much choice... And now I still have to de-cypher his handwriting and write it all on the computer. It'd be so much easier if I had a Japanese keyboard, but I couldn't stay all the night at the International Office...

Baeh, and then I forgot my wallet home today, so I had to come and get it before lunch, so more time wasted. I really don't feel at all like working more today... I feel like lying in bed, reading manga, listening to music, watching a movie... Oh yeah, that reminds me that I watched the X2 movie I bought. No problem with the DVD player in my comp ^_^ Seeing one movie makes me want to buy more so I could watch them here... I really miss movies. I think Shrek 2 is coming here at some point (at least in some form, I saw a commercial on TV today), I really want to see it. But it's an animation, so there's little chance that it's in English...

I got more manga just for the goodies yesterday. Another Ribon magazine, this time there was a calendar set and I just couldn't resist it. I already have a calendar, but... It's a manga calendar! There are also these silly cardboard fold-it-and-it'll-be-something things with each issue of the magazine, and this time it was a christmas tree game, so I'll have a little cardboard christmas tree with manga decorations this year ^_^ (It's pathetic compared to a real christmas tree, but there's no chance of getting one of them this year. This is a nice, funny, inventive substitute ^_^)

*slump* I don't wanna do that report... I wanna sleep... I wanna be lazy... But I can't -_-; I'm really lagging behind with the NaNoManga, too, I don't even have the page plans ready yet, and I have to do more of that web project again someday and I promised the designs for the Kirsikankukkacon website by the end of this week, too... I'm so into complaining today. Nah nah >:P

Oh yeah, I complained to the girl in the next room about how her friend wakes me up every morning by calling her name because she can't get up... It's really annoying -_- I hope she got the message. The language they speak sounds so annoying, I don't like it at all... It's not Chinese or Korean, but something else. It sounds exactly what we in Finland would call "mongerrus", or sometimes (when they complain about stuff or call out to someone, I suppose) like a cat meowing in an annoying way. And it's not helping at all when I wake up to it early every morning... They're sometimes noisy late at night, too, no wonder the girl doesn't get enough sleep.

*makes silent noises of displeasure* And now I have to write out that report... Sigh. Well, with this it'll at least be over. And I can do the NaNoManga at class tomorrow...