Productivity, at last
Things I did today:
- cleaned my room
- finished my laundry, including folding everything and ironing my pants
- went through my Kyoto pre-arrival packet and sent emails and made lists (and figured out which dorm I got into - second choice, which is close to campus and cheap, but has communal EVERYTHING - bathroom, sink, fridge, shower [and I don't mean like, multiple people use the same shower, I mean there are no individual cubicles - that's Japanese bodily freedom for ya!])
- went to the bank
- propped the doors open and enjoyed the weather
- vacuumed the house
- vacuumed the futon
- cleaned my bathroom
- mopped the kitchen and my bathroom
- entertained a cat :)
- made a dedicated effort to do my own taxes (as I told my mom, I think I'm just going to do them this once, and have her check them, and then have her keep doing them for the rest of my life, because it's hard! But I want to know how it works and know that I can do it myself), and I think mostly succeeded
- started Shutting Out the Sun, a book Professor Heng has been recommending I read probably since I had her for World Politics first semester freshman year
- took a bath and read half a Newsweek
That's everything on my to-do list (minus "study more Japanese"), plus some. And tomorrow I'm going to help out my rugby coach with some work on her new house, then going to see a play with Katie and various other people in the evening. The weather's supposed to stay beautiful, and it looks like my last two weeks in the US will be good ones.
- cleaned my room
- finished my laundry, including folding everything and ironing my pants
- went through my Kyoto pre-arrival packet and sent emails and made lists (and figured out which dorm I got into - second choice, which is close to campus and cheap, but has communal EVERYTHING - bathroom, sink, fridge, shower [and I don't mean like, multiple people use the same shower, I mean there are no individual cubicles - that's Japanese bodily freedom for ya!])
- went to the bank
- propped the doors open and enjoyed the weather
- vacuumed the house
- vacuumed the futon
- cleaned my bathroom
- mopped the kitchen and my bathroom
- entertained a cat :)
- made a dedicated effort to do my own taxes (as I told my mom, I think I'm just going to do them this once, and have her check them, and then have her keep doing them for the rest of my life, because it's hard! But I want to know how it works and know that I can do it myself), and I think mostly succeeded
- started Shutting Out the Sun, a book Professor Heng has been recommending I read probably since I had her for World Politics first semester freshman year
- took a bath and read half a Newsweek
That's everything on my to-do list (minus "study more Japanese"), plus some. And tomorrow I'm going to help out my rugby coach with some work on her new house, then going to see a play with Katie and various other people in the evening. The weather's supposed to stay beautiful, and it looks like my last two weeks in the US will be good ones.