Got two roses.

So I guess I'm pretty happy. ^________^

And no, neither of them were from DHB because he's a cheapass. I also ate what was advertised as an "all chocolate dinner," but ended up being more like regular food with chocolate shavings or white chocolate butter on the side. Ah well, a break from cafeteria food is a break from cafeteria food!

中文练习有一点： 这个周末DHB不在大学因为昨天下午回家，明天晚上才这里回来。因为现在他不在这里，所以我觉得什么事都没有意思，我一个舞会都不想去。（可是如果DHB在这里，我们不会去舞会，我们要看电视，做工课。 ^^;）但是我也不想做功课，所以我在写这个"信"呢！

EDIT:

A cake I sort-of helped decorate yesterday. Happy V-Day everyone!

EDIT 2： 我想再写一下！中文课很有意思，可是这个课越来越难！我平常懂，但是TA老师说的时候，听懂很难。可是别的中文学生听懂得快，老师得说我两次或者三次以前我会听懂。我什么时候都紧张！

BACKWARDS RURAL AREA

DHB & I had plans to watch Coraline today, so I just went to check the showtimes of the only theatre in our immediate area and found out that that theatre isn't showing it.

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ARGEHGHGHHGHGHGHHGGHGHHHHHHHHHHH

DHB hasn't woken up yet, though I know he'll be really disappointed once I tell him, since he was looking forward to it more than I was. :(

CellPics Kenyon

:( & Drunks

• Love my Japan seminar. LoveloveLOVE. I learned so much new stuff from the first reading alone (which was an entire book, but still--SO much new stuff). More on this when I have the time to write about it. (And who knows when that will be; SEE NOTE BELOW)
• But on the downside, I AM SO FLIPPING TIRED WHAT THE FUCK. I have NEVER had to do so much reading in my entire fucking life and I have NO idea how the hell to divide my work so that I can get decent sleep per day and still get my work done well and I know that this is college and I should expect it and blahblahblahresponsibilityblahblahhardworkblah. BUT I WILL WHINE ABOUT IT ON HERE AS MUCH AS I GODDAMN WANT TO. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.
• It's not even the utter lack of free time that I'm freaking out over so much as it is the whole LACK OF SLEEP thing. I fell asleep at fucking 6AM last "night" and had to wake up for a 9:40 class all to read a FUCKING BOOK THAT ENDED UP BEING DUE ON THURSDAY INSTEAD OF TODAY FUCK. And I just got out of my seminar and I'm tired already and I KNOW I have to stay up and do a ton of work tonight again. Energy drinks seem to help only minimally and after a certain point, my brain just shuts down and takes a reallllly long time to process reading and sometimes I can't even see the text straight anymore. DHB usually stays up with me, which is nice, but he can handle sleep deprivation a lot better than I can. I'm essentially still adjusted to my 7hrs/day sleep routine from high school; this is just way, way too difficult for me at the moment. :(

Things are going well overall; I mean, I still occasionally do the whole self-insulting GOD I AM SO LAME IN COMPARISON TO EVERYONE ELSE thing, but I'm generally a very happy person. And it seems natural for college students to be stressed out all the time anyway, but God. :((

Random college-y observation: One thing I've noticed about some people (not all, but SOME) who drink and smoke pot way more than can possibly be healthy are horribly dull people when sober/not high. Case in point, a boy from the other side of my hall who DHB & I dubbed "Weed Boy," who says hardly anything typically, but a few nights ago, chatted the two of us up about the carbon cycle and growing marijuana in the atmosphere, then attempted to draw a marijuana leaf on the wall next to my door. DHB had to wrestle the marker out of his hand and then stated, with a completely straight face, "You seem to be a little high."

Which makes me wonder if the entire male 30-something salaryman population of Japan is horribly dull when sober too. :(

Just to join the choir...

-8 degrees. And we're not even technically in the Midwest.

On the plus side, my mentor just gave me a ride from the dining hall solely because of the weather. 8D