take loooong breaks between writing pieces of my paper. starting is the hardest part. and I'm always starting new paragraphs. ah well. I'll get it done some day.

Its my hibernation weekend. basically I'm holed up in the center writing essays and doing work for the whole weekend. morning to night. hooray for having that much work. Actually hooray for having a center that I can work in. That's comfortable, has a kitchen and whose only catch involves loooong walks to and back from the center.

About the Kyoto bus system:

It's a weekend and its the tourist season. It's also raining. I stand at the busstop which for the above three reasons has a ton of people milling around and two buses go by with no chance to get on. they are that full. so as the second bus moves away, I decide maybe it would be better to walk. This is a 40 min walk in which i stop somewhere to get a drink. As a walk up to the busstop that i would have gotten off at the bus that I would have taken had I waited and been able to get on, pulls up. Tumari: it was faster and more certain that I would get to school in a 40 min walk than take the bus. Don't you just love the Kyoto bus system.

did some admin stuff on my blog today. I admit I'm procrastinating doing work because I don't want to do it. I'd rather come in here tomorrow and have more work to do tomorrow. It's been more than two years since I started my blog. somehow I thought it was longer :-p I'm not a very faithful blogger but it's still up. That in itself is an achievement for me ;-p

btw s, thanks for the email :-p leave comments on my blog and I'll reply! hope you didn't mind that I linked to you from my blog

something to think about: reality of blogs and real life. just read and heard about an interesting rewrite of Matsukaze which is an old noh play done by one of the girls in my class. interesting and intriguing. also interesting: creating a fictional character or doing a project with a blog.

tired, falling into depression I suspect. work load getting heavier and heavier. stressed. *sigh*

I'm back and its been almost a week.. where has time gone?? anyway this friday is thanksgiving and I volunteered to help plan dinner.. silly me. As Chris says I've forgetten his first rule.. NEVER volunteer for anything :-p. In any case. I have A TON of work to do. aargh. so at least i finished my edits of my japanese essay. Now i just have to memorise that presentation as well as write my NOH presentation AND my Noh 15 page paper and an 8 page Econ paper and study for the Econ and Japanese finals and JLPT2. I think that's it for now. if that isn't enough :-p

btw for anyone who's interested, living vicariously does work, not long after my vicarious complaint, the universe decided that it would heed my compliant and throw a life my way.. or at least 2 hours of it. So i went to karaoke yesterday afternoon with two japanese students from Kyoto University and one of them was actually cute.. whoo hoo. yay for eye-candy. Unfortunately, now its back to the daily hum-drum of life :-p

Anne went on a DATE! and he gave her an hour long massage... yes I know I'm living vicariously through her halfway around the world. but it's so exciting.. i need excitement in my life :-p

don't really want to write my essay so I decided to procrastinate by writing in my blog instead. At the moment we're studying family in japanese and interestingly enough according to the article we read, in japan it is relations with friends that are stronger than that with parents where in the other ten countries it was the other way round. Surveying the class, it seemed that the asian famiies were the ones that were not as close to thier parents which is ironic considering all the filial piety and family ties we're supposed to have. Or maybe it's because of that. if you're expected to respect your parents and maintain a certain distance can you ever really tell them your problems? on the other hand that could also be the reason why we like deep friendships rather than casual ones.
But now i have to write an essay on family which I'm really not prepared to write much less in japanese. *sigh*

more work and the usual occupations. manga is addictive. just read a shortstory for japanese class about a 32 year old dating an 18 year old girl and about ennui but I still think that's creepy no matter how nice it sounds :-p I wouldn't date a 35 year old! then again... I've seen too many girls to believe that that's true across the board. And I suppose it does differ on a case by case basis but still..
some part of me is still creeped out by that :-p

need to tutor today :-p
Have a million and one things to do and no time to do them.. well at least I got one thing done yesterday..did my first draft essay for japanese for the group project. and about half of my travel report. So what's left is another japanese report, a japaenes essay, a rewrite of another japanes essay and Noh.

hooray for dying :-p

so I didn't get much work done over the weekend but i did have fun :-p that counts for somehting right?
I went shopping on sunday and actually bought stuff! yay I'm happy.. i bought a sweatshirt, and socks! and also pressies.. *grin* I like shopping. also got to eat oishi food so I'm happy.
unfortunately I still have two papers to write.. Japanese reports, presentations, noh reports, tests, travel reports and a JLPT to fail :-p

sooo soooo sooo drained after the weekend but since I had fun I guess I can't complian. what I can complain about is ALL the work that I have left to do!! Aaargh it's like everything just decided to accumulate at once. So here's what I have left to do...

major 15 page Noh report and presentation
Japanese survey, report and presentation
Japanese presentation (alone)
Report on what i did with the money the center gave me to travel :-p
Kanji Test
Tons of performances and performance reports after :-p

aargh. mostly in order of descending piorities.

On a good note I did have a good halloween :-p Halloween was great. I dressed up as a cat with like self made cat ears and face makeup. We had a great party and then jp, brett and I went down to the river. for some reason we always end up there. Oh right also forgot to mention that danny, jp and I trekked around the whole of the downtown area looking for costumes for me and Jp and danny WAS in costume. to be more precise a school girl's uniform.. whoo. did that attract stares. I think dillon really took the cake though. he was dressed as a french girl and he was GOOD. some of those moves.. well lets just say that us girls can't do them and he can :-p esp the strip dancing on the table.