deep in my soul i know that i'm your destiny
Yesterday should not have been as tiring as it was. I dragged myself out of bed early to shower, fix my resume, print my resume, essay, and transcript, and finish my speech outline, which was absolute crap and I'm not looking forward to fixing it this weekend. I made it to class okay, even managing to start some of the reading for tomorrow before class.
I was an idiot and forgot to sign my HIF forms before giving them to Saitou-sensei, so that was awkward. I hung out with Yao a bit after class, and then we headed over to East Campus together. I ended up lugging my laptop around all day for our presentation, even though I knew I didn't have the cords for it. No one else in my group responded that they were bringing their computer, so I wanted it to look like we at least tried.
And now that's done, whooo. After class Jordan, Yao and I headed to West Campus, where Jordan and Yao had Mexican food. Then we went to library and chatted with Kris for a bit before finding ourselves a place to sit and work on homework. Yao is working on a paper proposal, Jordan needs to do her capstone outline, and I had Japanese homework. I wanted to go to the Asian American Working Group event, but it was on East Campus in a dorm I couldn't get into anyway, and we were going to see Tokyo Sonata at Griffith and 8.
It's really a fantastic movie. Maybe I'm just getting old and emotional, but I found myself crying through large portions of the movie. Kurosawa and the actors do an amazing job of creating the unbelievably heavy sense of hopelessness that pervades and drives the movie. It's terrifying to think of people living with that kind of sadness and confusion, and even more so if Kurosawa did indeed capture the contemporary fears of Japan. There is a portion of the movie that we all felt dragged on a little too long, but then once it was over, it became apparent why it needed to be like that, even if I don't like it. The trailer hardly does the movie justice, to be honest, as it isn't narrated from a single point of view and events unravel in a much different way.
Also, I fail, and I did not recognize this piece as Claire de Lune (embedding was disabled, but you should listen, it's beautiful) despite the fact that I did, actually, play it in high school (around 4:20 - the first minute is just us marching in). orz band fail.
Unfortunately, the movie has a ton of scenes of eating, and so by the time it was over Jordan and I were starving. We then proceeded to have the most fantastically awkward forty-five minutes together. We dropped Yao off at home, then drove along Hillsborough trying to decide where to eat. Subway closed as we pulled up, so we had to go back to our options. We narrowed it down to Bojangle's (do not question our logic), but they too were closed. So we pulled into the parking lot of Kroeger and started again, ending up with KFC. We drove through the drive through, and sat there for like, five minutes. Just sat, waiting. We drove all the way around, noting that there were employees, and the drive through open sign was on, and sat again. Waiting. Eventually we just gave up and went to McDonald's.
I came home, watched Colbert, and then read until the rerun of White Collar, after which I went to sleep. The wind is really strong today, and woke me up around 6 and wouldn't let me sleep soundly after that.
I was an idiot and forgot to sign my HIF forms before giving them to Saitou-sensei, so that was awkward. I hung out with Yao a bit after class, and then we headed over to East Campus together. I ended up lugging my laptop around all day for our presentation, even though I knew I didn't have the cords for it. No one else in my group responded that they were bringing their computer, so I wanted it to look like we at least tried.
And now that's done, whooo. After class Jordan, Yao and I headed to West Campus, where Jordan and Yao had Mexican food. Then we went to library and chatted with Kris for a bit before finding ourselves a place to sit and work on homework. Yao is working on a paper proposal, Jordan needs to do her capstone outline, and I had Japanese homework. I wanted to go to the Asian American Working Group event, but it was on East Campus in a dorm I couldn't get into anyway, and we were going to see Tokyo Sonata at Griffith and 8.
Click to viewIt's really a fantastic movie. Maybe I'm just getting old and emotional, but I found myself crying through large portions of the movie. Kurosawa and the actors do an amazing job of creating the unbelievably heavy sense of hopelessness that pervades and drives the movie. It's terrifying to think of people living with that kind of sadness and confusion, and even more so if Kurosawa did indeed capture the contemporary fears of Japan. There is a portion of the movie that we all felt dragged on a little too long, but then once it was over, it became apparent why it needed to be like that, even if I don't like it. The trailer hardly does the movie justice, to be honest, as it isn't narrated from a single point of view and events unravel in a much different way.
Also, I fail, and I did not recognize this piece as Claire de Lune (embedding was disabled, but you should listen, it's beautiful) despite the fact that I did, actually, play it in high school (around 4:20 - the first minute is just us marching in). orz band fail.
Unfortunately, the movie has a ton of scenes of eating, and so by the time it was over Jordan and I were starving. We then proceeded to have the most fantastically awkward forty-five minutes together. We dropped Yao off at home, then drove along Hillsborough trying to decide where to eat. Subway closed as we pulled up, so we had to go back to our options. We narrowed it down to Bojangle's (do not question our logic), but they too were closed. So we pulled into the parking lot of Kroeger and started again, ending up with KFC. We drove through the drive through, and sat there for like, five minutes. Just sat, waiting. We drove all the way around, noting that there were employees, and the drive through open sign was on, and sat again. Waiting. Eventually we just gave up and went to McDonald's.
I came home, watched Colbert, and then read until the rerun of White Collar, after which I went to sleep. The wind is really strong today, and woke me up around 6 and wouldn't let me sleep soundly after that.