trapped in the fortress of solitude
i just locked myself out of my office. i am awaiting my colleague's arrival to let me back in to retrieve my everything.
grad school has been stressful. i no longer hav proper weekends. i want to visit Chi-town, but don't know when i'd find the time. i am kinda making friends, but social-network building is a notoriously slow process, doubly so when your peers are of the age i am. Japanese class is crushing me, in the oral/listening department. Chinese is not as difficult, on the whole, as everyone seems to expect; that being said, i am hard pressed to properly reproduce some of the phonetics and the tones. i miss liz alot, and i have been generally avoiding thinking about that or the general stress level by steadfastly refusing to recognize the fundamental reality of my new life.
i'll try to update again another time. one more thing though: i miss my g-ville posse profoundly.
grad school has been stressful. i no longer hav proper weekends. i want to visit Chi-town, but don't know when i'd find the time. i am kinda making friends, but social-network building is a notoriously slow process, doubly so when your peers are of the age i am. Japanese class is crushing me, in the oral/listening department. Chinese is not as difficult, on the whole, as everyone seems to expect; that being said, i am hard pressed to properly reproduce some of the phonetics and the tones. i miss liz alot, and i have been generally avoiding thinking about that or the general stress level by steadfastly refusing to recognize the fundamental reality of my new life.
i'll try to update again another time. one more thing though: i miss my g-ville posse profoundly.