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So...
My family life has been in constant up and down for the last three weeks. I've applied to spend all of next year in Japan (and have no idea if that's a good or bad idea vis a vis the family issue). Assuming enough other students sign up to the course by tomorrow afternoon, I'm spending 3 weeks in late May in China (total unknown right now).
TAing is beginning to feel more like tutoring as students get eyes deep in their research proposals, one very crazy one that apparently wrote a very good lit review, that I didn't see because she turned it in late.
Typing feels nice, almost like a soothing experience even without the little clitter clatter I usually find mildly relaxing.
I need to practice katakana more. There was a couple in the polisci lounge today, I felt kind of bad about sitting like twenty feet away while they seemed to be having an important heart to heart, but this is a public area, there IS a professor here with her door open, and these are kind of my office hours that I am supposed to have in an assigned place. So I tried to keep my headphones on and running the whole time.
They went upstairs eventually though. I still feel vaguely guilty about it.
That's about it for now.
And once again, I remind people that I listen to Japanese pop music about dating and all that madness. I still don't quite understand why besides the whole sometimes lifting my mood thing. Which it's not really doing now, but I want to keep listening.
My family life has been in constant up and down for the last three weeks. I've applied to spend all of next year in Japan (and have no idea if that's a good or bad idea vis a vis the family issue). Assuming enough other students sign up to the course by tomorrow afternoon, I'm spending 3 weeks in late May in China (total unknown right now).
TAing is beginning to feel more like tutoring as students get eyes deep in their research proposals, one very crazy one that apparently wrote a very good lit review, that I didn't see because she turned it in late.
Typing feels nice, almost like a soothing experience even without the little clitter clatter I usually find mildly relaxing.
I need to practice katakana more. There was a couple in the polisci lounge today, I felt kind of bad about sitting like twenty feet away while they seemed to be having an important heart to heart, but this is a public area, there IS a professor here with her door open, and these are kind of my office hours that I am supposed to have in an assigned place. So I tried to keep my headphones on and running the whole time.
They went upstairs eventually though. I still feel vaguely guilty about it.
That's about it for now.
And once again, I remind people that I listen to Japanese pop music about dating and all that madness. I still don't quite understand why besides the whole sometimes lifting my mood thing. Which it's not really doing now, but I want to keep listening.