So monday....

Classes start....So I'm excited and disappointed about that. I've been reminded that I am not the smartest person I know; I signed up for a class that I've already taken and passed - by the time I realized what had happened it was too late......However this'll save on books as I've still got the book....That let me finally get around to getting something that I've always wanted; a white board...But now I don't know what to do with it. I suppose I can use it for planning and homework or whatever



I've been browsing youtube a lot recently and have come to realize that there are few/no channels that explicitly go over my field of study (linguistics) however there are a lot of exhibitionist omniglots and some of them are actual linguists and one of them comes close in that he showcases various language however he doesn't really talk about the science behind it all. No one has made a video version of the wikipedia entries revolving around linguistics and I thought: Maybe I can? I'm no where near an authority on the subject but I figure if I do my homework then it can't hurt so long as I cite my sources, present the pot, and keep my hands out. I donno...I've already reserved some channels now I just need to set out a lesson plan and so on.

I don't think I have a good TV voice/personality.



A friend of mine has been doing a little thingy where they draw sleeping people on the train. Their goal was 1,000 drawings. Today they got to 1,000 so I'm interested in knowing what they'll be doing after that.

I've been looking at more languages and have found hindi. Hindi will be the hardest language I'll have to tackle. The alphabet is a syllabary that kinda acts like an alphabet....A syllabic alphabet? Hold on, gotta figure out what it's called...Hindi uses Devanagari which is an "abugida alphabet" which, in laymans terms, is an alphasyllabary which is kinda what I said it was.....You're gonna have to look that stuff up on your own....Or maybe I'll make a video about it. Most/all of the alphabet, in this book, is described using linguistic terms and that's what sparked the search of youtube for linguistic videos and the idea to make my own.....The language also has sounds that I don't think exist in English, this'll make listening practice "difficult". Despite this there are a lot of slow paced videos online to listen to.



I've been trying to live without the phone for a couple weeks now. So far so good. I just use it as an alarm and then ignore it the rest of the time. Don't really think I miss it but I still know i have it with me in case I need it....I need to go all the way with it.

Lately I've not been cleaning my house.....I've kinda fallen into a stupor that I need to get out of. I did do dishes yesterday though...

Mad lootz

Yesterday, in the mail, I got about two-and-a-half-fuck-tons of loot. As you can see I'd already begun to "sample" some of the things I received before I took the photo.



The yellow bag one to the right is okonomiyaki flavored puff balls. They're like cheetos except okonomiyaki flavored instead. They're also much much better. If they have them hereI can see these being a problem for me in the future....the ones labled "Just Pack" are also very good. top most one is cheese, the brown one is little fish (sardines) with almonds mixed in with them. and the other is some sorta fried breaded...something...I wanna say squid. The red package is peanut puffs and the green next to is is soybean pod shaped/flavored puffs. They're also very good. I've had these before and had almost forgotten about them until I got this. I don't know what the brown back above that is but it's also very good. The blue mug has the kanji for various fish. I don't know if they're antiquated kanji or not as I'm unable to find some of them. The packages in the red/tan box are sento treats my buddy steals. I love these to death. And I don't nkow what the two cups are.

What's really noteworthy here is the black'ish outfit underneath everything. That's a jinbei. I'm wearing it now. It's comfy. It also came with a matching fan.



But yeah, did I tell you? I signed up for classes. All of my classes are online this semester so that'll give me more time to do....less things...fewer things, whatever. Either way I don't have to go outside nearly as much as I did last semester and that's always a good thing for me as I'm staunchly against going outside....I'll be taking another Spanish class, an linguistic anthropology class and a math class. Skimping on total classes this time because they didn't have a class I really wanted to take. Classes start on the 30th so I guess I gotta get my books soon....



Aside from all that not much else has gone down. I've taken up C, which so far is interesting. I'll be able to dodge a lot of the OOP stuff even though I've gotta learn it in the future anyway. But at least this way I'll have more fundamentals under my belt before I hit C++. That's what I wanna tell myself.

I've done mostly procedural programming in php, if that's even programming....That's just scripting. I've also done a bit of C#, I didn't like C# at all. I don't know if it was me or the language or the situation. I hope it was just the language or situation because if it was just me I'mma have just as hard a time this time around with C# as I did last time around with C++.

I've got a solid idea I just need to work at it. "I won't tell you what it is because I don't want you to steal it!". It's not easy, it's not easy to do alone, and it's especially not easy for me at all.

Move on move on.

Next week classes start. Kinda nervous I think; this'll be two semesters in a row, I feel like a good student.

So...What now?

I’ve stepped down from my development position and will be asking to be put on part time status so I can devote more time to school. I feel like I have made a mistake with the company but at the same time I feel like I’ve made a good decision for myself.

So I got a watch, mostly because I didn’t have one. It’s a little 20USD~ Casio.I’ve also gotten a tether for my phone. Most of my important things are strapped to me. My keys are on a chain and my phone is on some kind of nylon or whatever string. All of this is to help me not lose them. I think I have Alzheimer. Every so often, when I go to leave the house I’ll get yanked by the chain and I’ve left my phone at work more times than I want to count. The things I put in my hands often are the ones that get put down and lost. I mostly use my phone to tell time so maybe with the watch I can wean myself from it.

I’m going to start walking and riding the bus again. I hope I can make it to work. It’s been a few months since I’ve walked that far....

Google maps is nifty. I was able to sync it with my Berry and ThunderBird. I put all of my classes there and I can put my to do lists there as well. Today I used it to make a paperless shopping list. I’m green.

Now that I’ve done what I’ve done regarding work I have to figure out what to do about classes. Right now I’m taking 13 credit hours divided between 5 classes. Is that too much or too little? I don’t know...o＜＼＿

あ、見ましたか？My layout is different. Most things don’t work but I’ll slowly put things down as time goes by. Today one of the neighbors puppies managed to wiggle out through the window and spent a good hour or so crying outside until I let it come hang out with me. It was nice, so nice to have a dog in the house for the full 30 minutes it was here. I want a pup.

Hm.

I’ve decided that I don’t want to hit 30 without a degree. I’m 25 now...24? 24 or 25, one of the two. And I have been doing pretty well, but not well enough for me. Over the next 4 years I want to dedicate my life to school. I’ve started on that but I am only taking the minimum to be a full time student(12 credit hours(4 classes)) I want to more but the question is can I do more ? And of that I’m not sure. I know I am not very capable person and need to do what I can do the best that I can, or at least well enough.
Since I wasn’t permitted into the local university because of my retarded GPA I have to go to the local community college (read: trade school) to increase my GPA however I figure if I go there and get a 2 year degree then I can use that as a bases. I’ll end up taking the majority of my core classes at the community college anyway; they’re cheaper there....
But can I work a full-time time-intensive job and go to school full time? I’m not sure, we’ll see.

I’d like to be in a band:

They have something I don’t though: skill.

I’d probably:

( ò .ó)-何???? I want one-(°o ° )

Maybe I could sing? I don’t have any training or singing practice but I can hold a tune. How hard could it be:


Huh...

All I need now is to grow my hair out, get a white robe, start pop-locking it wherever I go, and I’ll be set!

Looks like Japan is having a hard time keeping it’s peeps from offing themselves and it isn’t so much the elderly but those in their early and mid thirties, the working range of people. Depression may be directly proportional to someones feeling of self worth. Also seems that more people are dying than being born
Don’t know if that’s in seconds, hours, days, years, what though.

I need to find time to get ahead in Spanish. I took a few classes in high school but never really “wanted”can’t learn something you don’t want to and didn’t want to at the time, are things different now? I think so.

I’ve signed up for the kanji-a-day level 4 list. And I’ve realized that I know most/all of the rules that come to me from the yookoso daily grammar lvl 4 list so I’ve added level 3!

I went out of my way to get this retard a friend so he wouldn't be all kinds of on-all-fours-sad but they don't even hang out.

There are even two fish in there, I want to get four but we'll see how well these do. I'm kind of afraid the frogs might eat them since they're so little. I asked everyone involved not to eat anyone because I'd feed them properly but we'll see how well that works. Savages never listen.