More of life
On the one hand, this is hell week. Two midterms, a project, and a paper due within the next three days; another chunk of our CS project due a week from tomorrow. Funfunfun. And my Italian professor still has no concept at all of time. Or listening skills. Or...yeah. I'll be glad to be done with him, after this semester. (The good news is, I do like reading in Italian reasonably well, when I'm not too focused on trying to kill my professor. The book we're reading sucks, but the actual reading process is relaxing.)
With all my friends going OMG LIFE, I am also going OMG LIFE. I mean...Aynsley's thinking through all her stuff, and I'm proud of the way she's working through it (aka with a minimum of panic and steps towards finding at least a temporary solution). Shelley is also going ackbfhl--she's basically realizing there's no way she can do a CS minor and her Bio major, which is too bad, and she's also realizing that to go into the field she wants to, she needs to thesis, which will be hard because of her GPA. Now I don't know what her GPA is, but with how hard she works? I feel like she deserves to have a shot at her ideal field, at least. So I hope her department at least gives her that shot. But, yeah--she's also going, future, scary.
For me, the future is a highly unclear thing, one that I should start thinking about....well, now-ish. I mean, I'll be abroad next year. This means that if I want to thesis (which would have to be with Zimmerman, since Morley will be gone, and agh why do professors suck???), I'll need to arrange it through email and hopefully Morley's good recommendations. I am emailing her to ask if there's sometime we can meet to discuss how this whole process works--after all, I'm not even sure if it'll be important for me to thesis or not, or what kinds of topics EALL majors typically do. Can translation be a big chunk of it? Is it reading books in Japanese and writing essentially an English-major-style thesis on the Japanese-language books? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN.
I do know for a fact that I won't want to start grad school RIGHT out of college. I mean, come on, I've only had like 16 straight years of school at that point. I need at least a year or two off, especially since I'm in no rush to settle into a career and a family or anything like that. And I will most likely spend that year or two on JET, assuming they don't reject my ass, but I don't think they will. But I probably will go to grad school at some point--and considering my interests, what would I study, exactly? What kinds of jobs can I do with that? Basically, I need some good, clear information on how this life stuff works. XDDD And I trust Morley to know a little more about what amounts to a fairly obscure field than the internet can tell me.
And finally...cosplay. AGH AB IS SO SOON. AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW ALL MY COSPLAYS. XDDD AKA I know I want to do Preventers, but which? No idea. At least the outfits are all the same, and it's pretty much between Duo and Quatre (if Shelley decides to do Duo, I will end up with Quatre as default; if not, I don't really know) and I have wigs available for both. (Unfortunately the wig I would use for Duo is also supposed to be for Kazuki's outfits from last year. Which I was planning on bringing to ACEN due to portability. Oops. Hmm....I wonder if I can make it usable for both. Like a braid under a fabric tube, and attachable hair wings for Kazuki? IDK. Needs thought.)
And, finally, money. Since I know I'm going to Japan, but don't yet know if I have a job this summer (and don't expect to get a TON of money from said job this summer, since even if I get it it's for half the time, and it's fairly low pay) I am being very careful. AKA my plan was to spend money on cons and cosplay and nothing else. Unfortunately, my jeans are rapidly wearing out, which means I will need to shell out at least $100, once you add in shipping and all that stuff. Mreh. I am going to see if I can drag mom shopping in person and eliminate shipping costs at least while I'm home. I also want to get a size larger. Yeah, I like how they look better when they're more fitted, and yeah, the waist fits way better when the thighs are too small--but they wear out faster when the thighs rub and they're just not that comfortable. So....yeah. Mreh, this makes me sad, because it makes it even HARDER to find jeans. Why can I not just have a within-normal-range inseam???? Or skinny legs??? ONE OR THE OTHER. It would make shopping so much easier.
I GET NEW POKEMON GAME THIS WEEK. YAAAAAYYYY.
With all my friends going OMG LIFE, I am also going OMG LIFE. I mean...Aynsley's thinking through all her stuff, and I'm proud of the way she's working through it (aka with a minimum of panic and steps towards finding at least a temporary solution). Shelley is also going ackbfhl--she's basically realizing there's no way she can do a CS minor and her Bio major, which is too bad, and she's also realizing that to go into the field she wants to, she needs to thesis, which will be hard because of her GPA. Now I don't know what her GPA is, but with how hard she works? I feel like she deserves to have a shot at her ideal field, at least. So I hope her department at least gives her that shot. But, yeah--she's also going, future, scary.
For me, the future is a highly unclear thing, one that I should start thinking about....well, now-ish. I mean, I'll be abroad next year. This means that if I want to thesis (which would have to be with Zimmerman, since Morley will be gone, and agh why do professors suck???), I'll need to arrange it through email and hopefully Morley's good recommendations. I am emailing her to ask if there's sometime we can meet to discuss how this whole process works--after all, I'm not even sure if it'll be important for me to thesis or not, or what kinds of topics EALL majors typically do. Can translation be a big chunk of it? Is it reading books in Japanese and writing essentially an English-major-style thesis on the Japanese-language books? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN.
I do know for a fact that I won't want to start grad school RIGHT out of college. I mean, come on, I've only had like 16 straight years of school at that point. I need at least a year or two off, especially since I'm in no rush to settle into a career and a family or anything like that. And I will most likely spend that year or two on JET, assuming they don't reject my ass, but I don't think they will. But I probably will go to grad school at some point--and considering my interests, what would I study, exactly? What kinds of jobs can I do with that? Basically, I need some good, clear information on how this life stuff works. XDDD And I trust Morley to know a little more about what amounts to a fairly obscure field than the internet can tell me.
And finally...cosplay. AGH AB IS SO SOON. AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW ALL MY COSPLAYS. XDDD AKA I know I want to do Preventers, but which? No idea. At least the outfits are all the same, and it's pretty much between Duo and Quatre (if Shelley decides to do Duo, I will end up with Quatre as default; if not, I don't really know) and I have wigs available for both. (Unfortunately the wig I would use for Duo is also supposed to be for Kazuki's outfits from last year. Which I was planning on bringing to ACEN due to portability. Oops. Hmm....I wonder if I can make it usable for both. Like a braid under a fabric tube, and attachable hair wings for Kazuki? IDK. Needs thought.)
And, finally, money. Since I know I'm going to Japan, but don't yet know if I have a job this summer (and don't expect to get a TON of money from said job this summer, since even if I get it it's for half the time, and it's fairly low pay) I am being very careful. AKA my plan was to spend money on cons and cosplay and nothing else. Unfortunately, my jeans are rapidly wearing out, which means I will need to shell out at least $100, once you add in shipping and all that stuff. Mreh. I am going to see if I can drag mom shopping in person and eliminate shipping costs at least while I'm home. I also want to get a size larger. Yeah, I like how they look better when they're more fitted, and yeah, the waist fits way better when the thighs are too small--but they wear out faster when the thighs rub and they're just not that comfortable. So....yeah. Mreh, this makes me sad, because it makes it even HARDER to find jeans. Why can I not just have a within-normal-range inseam???? Or skinny legs??? ONE OR THE OTHER. It would make shopping so much easier.
I GET NEW POKEMON GAME THIS WEEK. YAAAAAYYYY.