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amused2006.09.21 (Thursday)
My first class was ML 400 (Research Methods in Modern Languages), and at first I didn't recognize anyone except Chris #2 from that Japanese literature class. Most of the others were Spanish majors and a handful seemed to be Chinese majors. It seemed pretty boring, being a class all about learning how to write a paper (because apparently I totally didn't know how to write one for years), and it is. The substitute teacher also felt it was appropriate to speak in Spanish, even though we weren't ALL Spanish majors. Alienation FTW!!!
Next was JAPN 380 (Business Japanese). I didn't believe the teacher was actually the teacher at first (I almost said "wow"), but she's pretty good. I decided to pass on the offer to take JAPN 150 that day...
2006.09.25 (Monday)
JAPN 400A (Advanced Reading and Composition). The first one to enter the room (besides me) was "Heather" (who I certainly have never heard of before), followed by Hiro (who I always forget is in my class) and Ed. Then Chris #2 and two other girls (Naomi #2 - who lives in the same city as me - and "Nancy," I think). It's a new book but it doesn't seem to be any harder than anything in Koike-sensei's JAPN 300ABC classes, and Yokota-sensei seems to say more stuff in English. I was suckered into taking JAPN 150 (Contemporary Japan Through Pop Culture) that day. Yokota made a good point, though... it is free credits, it could help improve my translating skills, and Heather said it should be an easy "A." This late in the game I can't afford to get anything less.
2006.09.26 (Tuesday)
Now that I'm taking JAPN 150, I have to get to school several hours earlier for the first time in years. According to Yokota, I was the "key person" in keeping the class open (due to low enrollment), though when people were coming in, it didn't look like the class was in any danger of being cancelled. It seems fun, but it's still the same amount of work from Yokota's other literature classes.
ML 400: New room, and with people hilariously having no choice but to stand up or sit on the floor (since we ran out of chairs), we were forced to change rooms yet again. The "real" teacher seemed cool, until she said calling the USA "America" was "politically incorrect." Well, that's the first I've ever heard of it! Aren't there songs like "America the Beautiful" and "God Bless America?" Wasn't there a movie in the 80's starring Eddie Murphy called "Coming to America?" Are Americans now "North Americans" (to say nothing of the folks up in Canada)? And that's just the top of my head. So fuck that. (At least I saw the back of a REALLY hot girl...)
JAPN 380: Lin-sensei recognized my Gackt pic on my sample Japanese resume. She also recognized my Nintendo DS Lite... neat. I also saw Jason, who I thought graduated.
2006.09.27 (Wednesday)
JAPN 400A: If there was any doubt that I am the class's - nay, the school's kanji master, I just removed it. I taught Nancy how to write the "TAI" in "JOUTAI" (and I loved how she described it: "mu-tsuki-hi-hi-kokoro"), and I corrected someone's "GO." I also met up with some guy who wanted me to merge the Anime Club with the Japan Club. At least he didn't seem like an anime otaku...
2006.09.28 (Thursday)
JAPN 150: I got a weird feeling today. While it's certainly true that I am the smartest guy in class, I feel pretty stupid. I just know there's an idiom for this...
ML 400: Got into a group with two very nice girls (in every way
), including this one girl who I seemed to recognize from ENGL 401 over a year ago. I hope that was taken as flattering and not "obsessive," because I'm pretty sure she wouldn't know who the hell I am. I think I hit it off with both of them... probably should have gotten their contact info, though. We were all told to sit in the same chairs so the politically-correct-to-a-fault professor could learn everyone's names. (Goddamn, I really should have gotten their contact info... 
)
JAPN 380: One look at my shirt (my "tachi shouben kinshi" shirt) and Lin-sensei was going off on NHK's Domo-kun and sumo wrestlers. And then we went over the surprisingly compicated task of exchanging business cards, Japanese style.
In sum, there's always something to look forward to at school, though I'd rather not have 3 classes in a day. And I don't know if it's just because I took the summer off, but there are some girls at school who are SERIOUSLY hot. Hottt, even. I'm not religious or anything, but JESUS CHRIST!!! I'm talking "heavenly / angelic / goddess-tier" hottt. There is no longer any point in ogling any pic or video (...er, not that I have before), because whatever she looks like, she won't match the incomprehensible good looks of the girls I've been seeing at school. And the other day there was this kinda-skinny, kinda-short, quiet, long-haired, twisty-turny fidgety girl at the bus stop taking my bus (267). Damn it, I love those fidgety types too, heh.
(And yeah, I suck, but reading and writing about how much I suck is always fun. I'd normally post this on my LiveJournal but they have a stupid post limit, and there's another reason why I won't post on my LJ but I won't go into that right now. These posts always take hours...)
My first class was ML 400 (Research Methods in Modern Languages), and at first I didn't recognize anyone except Chris #2 from that Japanese literature class. Most of the others were Spanish majors and a handful seemed to be Chinese majors. It seemed pretty boring, being a class all about learning how to write a paper (because apparently I totally didn't know how to write one for years), and it is. The substitute teacher also felt it was appropriate to speak in Spanish, even though we weren't ALL Spanish majors. Alienation FTW!!!
Next was JAPN 380 (Business Japanese). I didn't believe the teacher was actually the teacher at first (I almost said "wow"), but she's pretty good. I decided to pass on the offer to take JAPN 150 that day...
2006.09.25 (Monday)
JAPN 400A (Advanced Reading and Composition). The first one to enter the room (besides me) was "Heather" (who I certainly have never heard of before), followed by Hiro (who I always forget is in my class) and Ed. Then Chris #2 and two other girls (Naomi #2 - who lives in the same city as me - and "Nancy," I think). It's a new book but it doesn't seem to be any harder than anything in Koike-sensei's JAPN 300ABC classes, and Yokota-sensei seems to say more stuff in English. I was suckered into taking JAPN 150 (Contemporary Japan Through Pop Culture) that day. Yokota made a good point, though... it is free credits, it could help improve my translating skills, and Heather said it should be an easy "A." This late in the game I can't afford to get anything less.
2006.09.26 (Tuesday)
Now that I'm taking JAPN 150, I have to get to school several hours earlier for the first time in years. According to Yokota, I was the "key person" in keeping the class open (due to low enrollment), though when people were coming in, it didn't look like the class was in any danger of being cancelled. It seems fun, but it's still the same amount of work from Yokota's other literature classes.
ML 400: New room, and with people hilariously having no choice but to stand up or sit on the floor (since we ran out of chairs), we were forced to change rooms yet again. The "real" teacher seemed cool, until she said calling the USA "America" was "politically incorrect." Well, that's the first I've ever heard of it! Aren't there songs like "America the Beautiful" and "God Bless America?" Wasn't there a movie in the 80's starring Eddie Murphy called "Coming to America?" Are Americans now "North Americans" (to say nothing of the folks up in Canada)? And that's just the top of my head. So fuck that. (At least I saw the back of a REALLY hot girl...)
JAPN 380: Lin-sensei recognized my Gackt pic on my sample Japanese resume. She also recognized my Nintendo DS Lite... neat. I also saw Jason, who I thought graduated.
2006.09.27 (Wednesday)
JAPN 400A: If there was any doubt that I am the class's - nay, the school's kanji master, I just removed it. I taught Nancy how to write the "TAI" in "JOUTAI" (and I loved how she described it: "mu-tsuki-hi-hi-kokoro"), and I corrected someone's "GO." I also met up with some guy who wanted me to merge the Anime Club with the Japan Club. At least he didn't seem like an anime otaku...
2006.09.28 (Thursday)
JAPN 150: I got a weird feeling today. While it's certainly true that I am the smartest guy in class, I feel pretty stupid. I just know there's an idiom for this...
ML 400: Got into a group with two very nice girls (in every way
), including this one girl who I seemed to recognize from ENGL 401 over a year ago. I hope that was taken as flattering and not "obsessive," because I'm pretty sure she wouldn't know who the hell I am. I think I hit it off with both of them... probably should have gotten their contact info, though. We were all told to sit in the same chairs so the politically-correct-to-a-fault professor could learn everyone's names. (Goddamn, I really should have gotten their contact info... )JAPN 380: One look at my shirt (my "tachi shouben kinshi" shirt) and Lin-sensei was going off on NHK's Domo-kun and sumo wrestlers. And then we went over the surprisingly compicated task of exchanging business cards, Japanese style.
In sum, there's always something to look forward to at school, though I'd rather not have 3 classes in a day. And I don't know if it's just because I took the summer off, but there are some girls at school who are SERIOUSLY hot. Hottt, even. I'm not religious or anything, but JESUS CHRIST!!! I'm talking "heavenly / angelic / goddess-tier" hottt. There is no longer any point in ogling any pic or video (...er, not that I have before), because whatever she looks like, she won't match the incomprehensible good looks of the girls I've been seeing at school. And the other day there was this kinda-skinny, kinda-short, quiet, long-haired, twisty-turny fidgety girl at the bus stop taking my bus (267). Damn it, I love those fidgety types too, heh.
(And yeah, I suck, but reading and writing about how much I suck is always fun. I'd normally post this on my LiveJournal but they have a stupid post limit, and there's another reason why I won't post on my LJ but I won't go into that right now. These posts always take hours...)
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