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First, my mini-review of Best of YesJapan Volume 1:
This thing is SO FREAKING FUNNY!!! And, oh yeah, it teaches you real, practical Japanese too. It's definitely more advanced than the two "Yan-san" series and more accessible than the 新にほんごでくらそう series, both of which I've downloaded and burned to two separate DVDs. I'm pretty sure one of the samples they have on their front page (Techniques to Impress Your Japanese Friends) is the same episode they have on the DVD, so give it a download. I got my copy from JBOX.com for just under $25 (including shipping) and it arrived six days after I sent the money order. Pretty good!
Other stuff:
Three weeks ago I went to the Japanese American National Museum as an activity for the Japan Club. It was a Saturday and despite everyone telling the organizer (Japan Club President Chris) that Saturday was the best day, I was the only one able to make it. He also brought along his Japanese g/f. After a small lunch (which he paid for), we went into the blissfully air-conditioned museum (also paid for). The big exhibition was the Taiko (太鼓) and it was very impressive! After that we all hung out around Little Tokyo for awhile, making it a sort of "3-person date" (actually, it was more along the lines of a real date with me being the loser girlfriend-less tag-along).
School:
You know that paper I did at the last second? I got an "A". Even the smarter, more vocal people in class got "C"s, so I'd be feeling pretty good if it didn't make me seem like a jerk. All I can say is that (1) proofreading is overrated (I just type it all correctly the first time and check right then and there... of course it does take me an hour per page), and (2) it doesn't matter how stupid your ideas are - if you can support them (i.e., pad your paper) with quotes in the right places, you'll get a good grade! So if any of you fine ladies need someone to proofread your papers...
yeah. (It was because of my ostensibly high grades on English papers that I wanted to major in English at one point, but it's already too late for that, and besides, literature and reading are also overrated. I'll bet whatever little money I have that I'm the least well-read person in any class... that is to say, I'm not very well-read at all! 
)I got a "B+" for my Anthro midterm, yay.
I also recently got an "A" on my second English quiz, even though it was definitely harder, I thought I messed up more, and I got something like a "B--" on my last quiz. Good thing he graded easier and I loaded up on the extra credit!
I don't know what I got on my Anthro paper, and I still don't know what I got on my English midterm even though I got it back more than two weeks ago (I'm too scared to take a look).
I have another English paper due Monday... hopefully I'll at least finish rereading the story before 1:00 am this time.
