Someday I'll Make an Entry Without Mentioning the Japanese Course
The first snow arrived this weekend. *shivers*. I don't think our heating has been turned up appropriately to make up for the colder temperature outside. Actually, I know it has not, since it's much too cold to be sitting around in just my pajamas. Thus I am snuggling under a blanket and cursing the fact that we have no hot chocolate or herbal/green tea. Normal tea this late into the night is just not a great plan, if I want to try to get myself out of the bed tomorrow before noon.
I've been sleeping a lot these past couple of days. It's probably partially because I was having the fun female time that happens every month and manages to make me not only suffer pain but also feel really exhausted. Still, it's far from being the only reason, since I am still feeling horribly tired. I suspect part of the blame lies with the season itself; cold and dark make me feel like going into hibernation. This is not exactly improved by the stress that seems to be trying to take a permanent hold of me.
Speaking of said stress, I'm getting more and more convinced that our Japanese class is truly meant to drive us into desperation. Last week we didn't manage to finish a new chapter of the text book, so we couldn't do the exercises from the other book. To make up for this unfortunate lack of grammar homework, we got 3 hand-outs worth of extra exercises! The first paper even looked pretty nice and easy, but it was all filthy lies and deception to lure us into false sense of security. The next paper is full of evil stuff and the third page takes the cake by having everything that is evil and wrong, up and including translation sentenses. We just did a huge fucking load of translations for this past week! Why god, why~?! *crawls into a corner to weep*
On slightly happier note, I did manage to steal moments to re-read Kuruizaki no Hana/Demon Flowers this week. I had to bring some yaoi and shounen-ai manga into the course where we talk about our Bachelor's papers, since my paper is about said manga. Seeing how part of my argument in the paper is that the genre is much versatile than people give it credit for, I wanted to bring in different kinds of stuff. Kuruizaki is somewhat similar to Tokyo Babylon in terms of the level of the shounen-ai; it's really damn central for the overall events, but it's not just a love story. Personally I actually occationally worry that I see Kuruizaki no Hana as gay when it's not supposed to be, but luckily there are some rather obvious statements every here and there to easen my worries. XD
Re-reading it also made me check when the next volume is scheduled for release and apparently it has been out for almost two months now! What's up with that, my dear comicbook shop, hmm? This is not making me a happy customer, not at all. They better be able to get me the 4th volume before the 5th comes out, grrr.
I've been sleeping a lot these past couple of days. It's probably partially because I was having the fun female time that happens every month and manages to make me not only suffer pain but also feel really exhausted. Still, it's far from being the only reason, since I am still feeling horribly tired. I suspect part of the blame lies with the season itself; cold and dark make me feel like going into hibernation. This is not exactly improved by the stress that seems to be trying to take a permanent hold of me.
Speaking of said stress, I'm getting more and more convinced that our Japanese class is truly meant to drive us into desperation. Last week we didn't manage to finish a new chapter of the text book, so we couldn't do the exercises from the other book. To make up for this unfortunate lack of grammar homework, we got 3 hand-outs worth of extra exercises! The first paper even looked pretty nice and easy, but it was all filthy lies and deception to lure us into false sense of security. The next paper is full of evil stuff and the third page takes the cake by having everything that is evil and wrong, up and including translation sentenses. We just did a huge fucking load of translations for this past week! Why god, why~?! *crawls into a corner to weep*
On slightly happier note, I did manage to steal moments to re-read Kuruizaki no Hana/Demon Flowers this week. I had to bring some yaoi and shounen-ai manga into the course where we talk about our Bachelor's papers, since my paper is about said manga. Seeing how part of my argument in the paper is that the genre is much versatile than people give it credit for, I wanted to bring in different kinds of stuff. Kuruizaki is somewhat similar to Tokyo Babylon in terms of the level of the shounen-ai; it's really damn central for the overall events, but it's not just a love story. Personally I actually occationally worry that I see Kuruizaki no Hana as gay when it's not supposed to be, but luckily there are some rather obvious statements every here and there to easen my worries. XD
Re-reading it also made me check when the next volume is scheduled for release and apparently it has been out for almost two months now! What's up with that, my dear comicbook shop, hmm? This is not making me a happy customer, not at all. They better be able to get me the 4th volume before the 5th comes out, grrr.