I'd forgotten how often boys say things that they would never, ever do. It was nice to be around so much grossness and varied levels of testosterone for the first time in a good two or three years.

Japanese 2013 speaking midterm is OVER. Thinking about it, I want to shoot myself in the face but also feel like I might still somehow make an A in that course. Odd.

Anyway, ( I'm going to be boring and describe the exam. )

I do have some Good News, though!: I've been told that OU will finally be offering a Japanese major, starting next semester. As interesting as Women's and Gender Studies seems, I'm way more excited about this option as a second degree, but I'll still look into it. And maybe I could add W&GS as a random minor, along with my other options of linguistics, history, or another language. I'm not sure a minor in something like chemistry or mathematics would be worth anything at all in conjunction with two foreign language degrees. I THINK I'LL JUST STAY IN SCHOOL FOREEEEVERRRR. Hmmmmm.

Despite the trauma of freezing up on my own goddamn name, today's been a really good day. My fever's been gone since yesterday; it's sunny, light jacket weather here; and I've felt friendly and energized all day. I'm even getting excited about Chinese out of nowhere.

Speaking of which, I should be working on memorizing my presentation for tomorrow. Urmmmm. And doing French homework. URMMMM. And studying for the Japanese written midterm. LALALALALA. One more daaayyyyy, and I can't focussssss

Incredibly frustrating: being tested over Japanese audio files containing vocabulary and sentence structures we've never been taught. That's just silly. And they aren't things we can figure out from context. UGGGHH. But I still really like this course. And even though I can hardly count straight in Chinese or Japanese without substituting numbers from the other language, kanji and Hanzi are surprisingly easy to keep straight. Knowing the Chinese character helps me frequently in Japanese, and vice versa. So that's kind of nifty.

( while you were sleeping )

ANYWAY. Almost done for the day. Leadership is all that is left, and then a whole afternoon/evening of cosplay stuff. RAAAAH. Last year, I definitely made a few advances, learned new techniques, and made a couple of decent costumes. This year, I want to perfect those costumes and techniques, try new things, and have a few new outfits to wow with (and maybe even enter a contest for once?). This is going to be a good cosplay year, by golly!

All set to Gundam Wing, probably. God, I've missed this show. ♥

I met my adviser today. He's a really cool guy, extremely friendly and laid-back. I'm getting more and more excited about being a French major. On the other hand, I've all but lost interest in learning Chinese at this school. The way the class is set up makes it so easy for me to put everything off and not push myself at all. That, and trying to schedule the next class is making it harder for me to schedule anything around it, and the system isn't even showing the course I need to enroll in right now for some reason, even though I've been told multiple times that the course has not been cancelled. I'm tempted to drop it entirely, but at the same time I don't want to give up. Hmmmm.

Also, Tatsuzawa-sensei seemed genuinely happy when I told her I was going to enroll in the next Japanese courses today. She said that I'm good at the language and will do well in the minor. How sweet of her. :'D

I can't find ANYTHING to fill my schedule with aside from my language courses. I have two humanities reqs I need to fill, but everything interesting causes conflict. And I need a social science course, but all of the ones deemed acceptable for the Gen Ed requirement look so incredibly dull. UGH. I'll be doing a lot of sitting in on courses the first couple weeks of next semester.

That being said, what I currently have for a schedule!:

Tentative Spring Schedule - 17 Hours
Chinese 1225 = MTWRF ~ 8:30-9:20 AM
French 2113 = MWF ~ 11:30-12:20 PM
French 2133 = MWF ~ 4:30-5:20 PM
Japanese 2013 = TR ~ 10:30-11:45 AM
Japanese 2113 = MWF ~ 10:30-11:20 AM

My original choices for a Humanities Req all conflict with this schedule now that they've reopened the 8:30 Chinese course (I'd prefer this to learning online, which was my only other option before). I was torn between China Since 1911 and African Dance. Now there are others, SO LET'S TAKE A VOTE OKAY!?!

Your choices are America Through Western Films (I doubt any of you will choose this, but I actually like Westerns and dime novels and whatnot XD;), Russian Culture, or Europe: The French Revolution Through Napoleon. PICK ONE. Please?

And the courses I'm planning on sitting in on are Beginning Russian I (12:30 MTWRF - I'm still seriously considering adding this as a second major or replacing the Chinese minor with Russian) and Acting for Non-Majors (if they'll let me, the 2:30 course; otherwise, all six other courses conflict with my schedule, of course hasdkhgdagjl).

GET SOME INTERESTING COURSES FOR YOUR GEN EDS, OU, KTHXBAI.

My history midterm was this morning. I finally gave up studying last night after it felt like I'd been slamming my head into a wall for about an hour. That was probably for the best, and this morning I had everything organized and ready but was still super nervous. I got up to get ready, but everything just started falling apart.

I realized that I hadn't studied for my French body parts quiz. All of my tabs in my books started slipping out when I tested flipping the pages (they had worked just fine before that). And I burnt my finger for the first time ever on my flat iron. I guess my body went into shock for a second over it, as I simply let my flesh practically catch fire without reacting. When I finally did react, it was by screaming and throwing the iron across the room. Ugh. It hurt so badly that I couldn't do much more than answer Joey's phone call, which was awful because I'd been looking forward to hearing his voice all morning.

I spent all of French being anxious and thought I was going to die sitting in the classroom for fifteen minutes before it started. The exam was really not that bad.

I wish I had paid attention, though, as I wound up answering more questions than I needed to in one section, wasting time I could have used on the essay portion. You'd think I would pay more attention to what is required of me at that sort of time, but no. I jump immediately into answering as much as possible. It shouldn't be like this after all of the tests I've taken over the years, and especially after just yesterday being reminded that my special little Perceiving trait, particularly in conjunction with my other letters, means that I ignore instructions AND SHOULD NOT DO THAT ON MIDTERMS.

If I didn't do well, I can't blame anyone but myself for never learning how to read and follow a fucking set of directions, askdhgaosjoahjoh. FAIL.

My brain was so shot after that exam that when I tried to say hello to a classmate and ask how he did, I couldn't even form a proper sentence. Luckily that one seems to be a smart cookie and could communicate well enough for the both of us.

At least Chinese was easy, and Japanese brought my spirits up a little. Thank you, languages. ♥ I think I'm going to do my French assignment and then turn my brain off for the night, khtxbai.

I don't know which of you introduced me to Pumpkin Delights, but I'm addicted. Best Halloween cookies everrrrr. ♥ And I have the best boyfriend ever who got them for me. Why must you do such thoughtful and delicious things that keep me from the skinnies? D|

OH YEAH. I dyed my hair. I don't have my camera cords to show off, but I realized I never even mentioned it. Is blue now. :3

I need a job so badly. I'm going to spend all of my free time in the next few days applying to jobs online and finding local places. Do you guys know of any 24/7 businesses that aren't terrible to work for? I'd like to avoid fast food if at all possible, but I'm running out of choosing room. At this rate, I doubt I'll make it to Izumicon, and I'll probably have to stay rooted to campus until winter break if I don't have any gas money coming in. Balls.

Classes were pretty decent today. I'll have to wait and see how my grade is in Arabic after the midterm, but I might drop it since I've pretty much decided that no matter what it's not going to be a part of my degree plan any longer. And I'm hoping that I do well in my history course. That instructor is a great guy and encourages his students to use their brains, but because of that I'm afraid he's going to be tough on our essays. And I have yet to take a single reading quiz in there. Hrm.

This afternoon is just another lull in the cycle of me panicking about what I'm going to major in fo srs, but I feel comfortable again with languages for the moment. Thinking about it, my dream job really would be to travel with photographers or explorers as their interpreter and get to see places all over the world. I'd love to go on some kind of road trip for a photography collection centered around lost or abandoned Chinese shrines and temples. I'm excited just writing about it.

And if not, there's always translating. I'd love to just read manga or novels all day~ |D

Anyway, I need to go get some sleep before I try to conquer my French and Chinese work for in the morning. Pull all-nighters has never been my favourite thing.

Also, btw, icon post @ foxsocks. Sorry if you've seen it advertised a bajillion times.



Looking through Gundam Wing fanart and finding gorgeous 6x13 and Treize-centric images reminded me of how amazingly gay I am for him~