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[yubsie]

So very COLD! Apparently, the Barclay building doesn't need trivial things like HEAT. :p I've spent the entire day with my coat wrapped around me. Unfortunately, that's a little TOO much like a blanket. So I spent my three hour class block trying to decide which was better: NOt paying much attention because I'm FREEZING or drifting off in class because it seems blanketesque. :p

SO COLD! Winter has arrived with a VENGEANCE. :p

Rehearsals are going well. I think karate has really helped my dancing. All that katta stuff is improving my choreography memory. :p Normal people find that dance improves their performance in sports. I find a sport improves my dancing. I suppose it's all in which one you're focused on. :p Though of course, the bit I can NEVER remember is the worst possible part for me to forget, since it's the steps that put me in the right place to catch my Munchkin partner on the next line. :P

Other than G&G my life is school (this is what happens when the show opens in a week :p) kanji are the devil, isolation for my thesis is turning into a vicious cycle. I keep trying an isolation technique, it doesn't work, I get annoyed, I don't want to LOOK at my project anymore... which obviously isn't going to make ANYTHING better. :p

I've been talking to STeve and I think I've got my first choice made for grad school. I'm going to read a few more papers by her, look at the city she's in and then start drafting the email of doom. EEP!

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[chlorrel.livejournal.com]

Grad school is scary buisness.

[yubsie]

Yeah, that about sums up my thoughts on the matter. :p

[ameryanne.livejournal.com]

Kanji IS the devil! But it's good that rehersals are going well.

I missed class on Wednesday due to the fact that I'd like to keep myself free of frost-bite. Did I miss much in Japanese class?

[yubsie]

I know you missed class. :p We went over the homework and discussed our exciting lives. :p

[chibifrieza.livejournal.com]

I actually managed to study effectively for yesterday's kanji quiz. I feel like I've got a clean slate as far as enthusiasm and retention go, though, to be sure, I've only been to two Japanese classes so far this term. But it's a little scary, because there's a lot I need to review that didn't take last semester, and I feel like if I even look at it I'll fall into the morass of crammed-and-fading material that was the last two months before Christmas, and never make it out alive. ^_^'>

[yubsie]

This is the beginning of kanji for us. I've been sitting there writing things out and cursing whoever invented this system. :p

[chibifrieza.livejournal.com]

That would be the Chinese. ^_^

Word to the wise: don't wait to study your new kanji until the day before the quiz, like I do. :P What's your textbook called?

[yubsie]

Yeah, I know. Which reminds me not to complain to my sister, because she will have NO sympathy for me. :p

Doesn't that go for everything language related? :p And we use Mina no Nihongo. :p

[chibifrieza.livejournal.com]

I suppose, but kanji are particularly evil because it's not just sound/spelling/meaning memorisation, but first you have to learn how to draw the darn thing (stroke order#%@*!), and then remember what it means, and then memorise the on and kun readings (if you're ambitious, that is; I always just figure out which yomi have been used so far in vocabulary that I've learned and memorise those)... and then make sure you remember how to write each of them when you stop looking at it and there've been a bunch that start with/contain the same radical, and... yeah.

Kanji are evil.

We use Nakama, whatever that means. I was just curious.

[yubsie]

YEah, it's a bit more annoying than other language stuff in that regard. Especially since I'm so artistically inept. :p Right now we're learning the kanji that go with words we've already been using. Fun times with on and kun readings come later, right now we just know they exist. :p

I keep glaring at the things and muttering about how I liked that verb better when the ku was written with the hiragana ku instead of a freaking complicated picture. :p

[squallhighwind.livejournal.com]

keep me posted on the grad school thing.

[yubsie]

I intend to.

The person I'm looking at is in London, Ontario.

[squallhighwind.livejournal.com]

Ooo...Shiny.

Thats Western isnt it? I could always check on google maps i suppose...but im lazy :P

oh...quick bit of randomness: when i have the sound on my Sudoku game, and i win, it sounds like the battle theme for Exile: escape from the pit. I half expect when i do sa large chain without checking my work, that itll say 'cool'

[yubsie]

Yeah, it is.

LOL!!