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[09 Oct 2008|04:19pm] |
I saw a fox this morning when I left for class. :3
The tip of his tail was white.
Unfortunately, I had taken my camera out of my bag right before leaving so I didn't have it with me to take a picture. :(
I had my Japanese Literature midterm today. It was really, really easy and yet most people seemed to be struggling with it when I had finished and left. (I took my time because I didn't want to be the first person out the door. I was the third or fourth, leaving after around 30 minutes after.)
When the teacher first came in a few people rushed him, eager to tell him their sob stories on how they couldn't print (every student has access to the school's MANY printing areas located in not just the library but all around campus and get $9.00 of free printing. "Not being able to print" is a shit excuse) or how CULearn magically "disappeared" and they couldn't access anything from the website, making it apparently impossible for them to write their paper (although he handed out the exact same paper that's on the website to everyone in class).
Honestly, if I was a college professor I wouldn't have accepted their late papers.
They were given two weeks to write the response, it wasn't meant to be long (four paragraphs for each of the four passages was the maximum you could do), and we had gone over all of the passages in class so it's not like it was new information. It was not a hard assignment. I hate analyzing literature and suck at it but even I found it to be very easy.
He's just going to dock a few points for the papers being late. But since it was the written portion of the midterm. He very well could have just had us write our answers in class. No paper handed in when it's due is the same as not writing anything at all on the test day, simple as that.
C'mon, guys, you're in college now. Is it wrong of me to expect something more than what people have been doing since middle school? :(
I'm glad I got out early though! I was worried I wouldn't have enough time to get back, drop off my stuff, and eat before going to Bitchcraft. I find first meetings the most important so I really would not have wanted to be late.
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[09 Oct 2008|10:39am] |
Lang-8 becomes sad:
"I am 40 years old Japanese man and now suspended from office because of nurvous depression. I have suspended from office for several times, so the company's doctor says I need an evidense which shows the depression is perfectly gone or if remains, it is under the control."
:( 頑張って
And kind of stupid:
"I gained about 5kg for the past half year.
So, I try to diet a week ago.
My way to diet that I have never eat after 9:00pm.
I could eat many foods by 9:00 pm."
I don't understand why people don't understand that you need to exercise to lost weight. :\
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[08 Oct 2008|10:29am] |
I had a nightmare that overweight toddlers (who could fly) were attacking the house. I was home alone and trying to make sure all the windows and doors were securely locked. I think the toddlers had vampiric qualities because I know in the dream the one thing I did not want to happen was to be bitten by them. I guess they could have been zombies too (they were all very pale) but zombies can't fly.
I guess vampires can?
The dream ended with Mum coming home and not locking the door after coming inside, allowing one to start to squeeze through.
The best part of the dream was early on, when I was still confused as to the plot my mind had tossed me into, I was bitten by a baby. My mind, not deeming this fair because it hadn't let me learn everything I needed to know to survive, reversed time and gave me a second chance.
I think having the power to reverse time in Prince of Persia has thoroughly spoiled me. It's becoming more and more common for me to do this to get out of a sticky situation (in my dreams) and makes me wish I could do it in real life.
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[06 Oct 2008|09:58pm] |
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Oh, and I got a 95.25/100 on my chapter one test for Japanese. I should have done better. >:(
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| For a job at Boulder |
[02 Oct 2008|11:33am] |
"I am looking for someone to wait for a pizza delivery at 4:45 pm on four different Mondays only: Sept. 22, Oct. 6, Nov. 17, and Dec. 1. You would arrive at Benson Earth Science at 4:30pm and wait for pizza to be delivered. You would then set the pizza and drinks up on tables and leave by 5:15-5:30."
It's like a dirty Craisglist post without the sex.
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[30 Sep 2008|10:07am] |
今日は日本語のテストをしました。易しかったと思います。
テストのリスニングのセクションはワークブックと同じでした。でもクラスメートはワークブックを使いませんから「もう一度プレイしてください」を三回言いました。
この朝に変な夢を見ました。クラスはコンクリートを作っていました。私のバックパックで石がいっぱいです。
クラスメートのスリスさんは私に「大好き」と言いました。
「あのう・・・ボーイフレンドがいる」を返事しました。
「でも、彼が大好き？」
「もちろん！よく見ないだけど他の人をデートしないよ。」
それから、夢の授業に行きました。遅れました。クラスは闇にかいだんの上に座っていました。
先生に「すみません・・・」と言いました。
「やまなし先生に行って、サインインして！」
やまなし先生に行って、名前を言いました。
「ジマーメンです。」
「ジマメン？」
「いいえ、ジマーメンです。長いマの音です。」
やまなし先生は私を見つめました。
私は「ジ・マ・ア・メ・ン」と言いました。
「いいね。」
では、私の名前を書きました。
オワリ！
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[23 Sep 2008|10:22am] |
Yesterday we took a Japanese vocabulary test that was more difficult than the previous ones but still very doable for any student at an intermediate level. The most difficult part involved writing sentences that drew on the grammar structures we had been learning for the past three weeks.
As tests were handed back groans filled the room and heads fell into hands. I was seeing 3/10, 5/10, 1/10 on the people around me. She explained that we could retake any of the mini tests and that it'd probably be a good idea for everyone.
Oh god, I thought! I failed!
Then mine came back with a lovely 9.75/10 on it. :3
If it wasn't for my damnable spelling I would have gotten a 100! I put いっしょう instead of いっしょ and 来って instead of 来て. >:( curses at meee
For class a group of three had to design a kanji review activity and a kanji test. For my review I wrote a little story and left spaces for where people needed to write the kanji, with furigana up top to show what word I wanted.
Everyone thought the teacher had written it. ;-;
And no one used it to practice even though--not to toot my own horn--mine was the most helpful toward reinforcing writing the kanji, which is what you actually needed to know how to do for the test. (One girl made a kanji cross word search that had many mistakes like 北海道 was 北海度 and the boy made a "match the word with the picture!" game that used none of the kanji words we were supposed to learn but instead used the vocabulary words in their kanji form.)
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[20 Sep 2008|09:43pm] |
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Today I walked down to Safeway (which is surprisingly close) and bought drugs.
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| LIBRARY |
[18 Sep 2008|06:19pm] |
Rows and rows of it--
Of loneliness and despair
Where's my fuckin' book?
Light streams through the hole
Of where Lucretius should be
Goddamn you, Norlin.
Grrr, suicidal
Why the hell isn't it here?
Hand-gun to my chin.
On the shelving rack--
I found it! And then the note.
I love and miss you.
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| Squirreltastic |
[18 Sep 2008|12:32pm] |
My Japanese Lit. class is canceled today because there's going to be a football game at 6:30PM.
:\ My class is at 3:30 PM.
what
This morning when walking to the Japanese class I was paying little attention to what was in front of me. Out of the corner of my eye I saw something brown twitching angrily so I stopped and noticed a squirrel a few inches from my feet glaring up at me, his tail swinging, angrily grinding his teeth.
"Jesus!" I said, taking half a step back out of surprise of seeing it there.
The squirrel continued to angrily glare at me while a buddy of his on the tree to my right (also only a few inches away) ran to the side I was on to also yell at me.
"Go ahead..." I mumbled as images of being attacked by rabid squirrels came to mind.
The squirrel ran up the tree to my right and I continued on my way, my heart still beating fast from my encounter WITH DEATH.
I had a meeting with my English professor today to go over my essay. The meeting went alright, she just had a few suggestions; mainly to use more commas and to keep reiterating my claim and how my examples work with it (which I always forget to do with every paper because, damnit, it should be obvious).
On my way back to my dorm there was a squirrel eagerly licking the ground where someone had spilled jam (or another similar substance). When I got to the door he was very resistant on leaving his treat and it took some coaxing to get him to back up far enough so I didn't have to worry about him possibly running into the dorms.
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| Can games make your kid a better citizen? |
[16 Sep 2008|08:28pm] |
No.
"For instance, you can play a mayor in 'SimCity,' and get a close-up look at what it takes to build and maintain a community."
Except they're all too busy watching it crash and burn instead.
"One commonly held stereotype paints teenage gamers as solitary, anti-social basement dwellers that can't socialize their way out of a paper bag."
Because we, the ones that play them the most, are like that.
"In fact, 74 percent of the teenagers polled reported that racing games were their favorite, followed closely by puzzle games such as 'Bejeweled,' 'Tetris' and 'Solitaire.'"
Because they're all commonly on cellphones.
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[16 Sep 2008|10:22am] |
Today when I was walking back from class a boy came up to me. "Excuse me, do you know where this is?" He spoke in an accent but used perfect English and pointed to a piece of paper that had REGENT ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER written on it.
"Um..."
"Is it this?" He pulled out a map and pointed to a building he had circled. Sure, why the hell not, I figured he knew what he was circling.
"Yeah, um..." We had just gone over directions in class but I know how insanely difficult it can be to give directions and have a person remember them, and I wasn't even 100% sure where the building was so I offered to walk with him to the building.
"Oh, thank you! My English is so... so poor and it's so hard finding things!" His voice was so shaky, I was worried he was going to cry.
I reassured him that his English was quite good as we hurriedly walked toward where I thought the building was. I remembered seeing a sign for it yesterday on my walk so I had some confidence in what I was doing.
I learned it was his first time abroad from China, he was studying Applied Mathematics, and he liked CU because the campus was so beautiful. His self-esteem is so low though :( As we walked he told me, "In my country I was considered a loser... because I always had trouble finding places." I told him that's not a loserish trait and that I have that exact same problem. I felt so bad for him. :( I wish I had caught his name or something but I'd probably butcher the spelling and I assume he had a meeting to go to so I didn't want to hold him up any longer. He just seems like the type to be lonely and that's such a shitty way to spend your study abroad time. :(
:( Man, why does he even know the English word for loser? You don't learn those words without a reason...
BUT I managed to take him to the right building on the first try so I'm so glad for that! Maybe this good deed will bring my bike back to me.
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[13 Sep 2008|05:26pm] |
I woke up at 11:59 AM and after having a quick lunch left for Pearl Street in order to investigate the parking situation. As I was walking down I saw a purple Roadmaster bike and worried that maybe mine had been stolen. I didn't see my bell on it, however, and I didn't feel like turning back to check on mine so I just continued walking.
Eventually I arrived and wandered around the various parking areas. However, it's free parking Saturday and Sunday so they have no reason to hire anyone to "patrol" the area so no one was there for me to ask about getting a parking permit. After double and then triple checking all the parking spots for even a hint of the parking permit thing they apparently have (I didn't see it mentioned anywhere, by the way) I decided to go home.
Except I suck at directions and spent two hours wandering around before I found a familiar area.
I popped into Target to fill up my water bottle and, in the mean time, found they sell "dissolving contraceptives" and thought it was a BRILLIANT idea.
After leaving Target I wandered around 29th Street to see what was there and saw a giant sign with PARKING. Curious, I wandered over to it and saw it had free parking with no time limit (store parking lots each have a 2 or 3 hour time limit). I dawdled around in the parking lot--which is underground--looking for a parking attendant but I saw no one. I also looked for signs detailing time limits or saying you can't park overnight or something but still found nothing.
So maybe???
After that I made the trek home. My feet hurt, I don't want to walk anymore.
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[12 Sep 2008|01:22pm] |
In literature class one day the teacher mentioned briefly Machi Tawara's collection of tanka in a book called "Salad Anniversary." He also supplied a few of her works such as:
"Call again," you say, and hang up--
I want to call again
Right now
A girl who likes fortune-telling
Keeps trying--
Until a lucky card comes up
I was intrigued and so today I went to the library during my hour break between classes. I found the main library and wandered around utterly confused because the call number I had started with PL but every shelf was an A or a B of some sort. Wandering back to my starting place I heard a construction noise and immediately turned around, looking slightly upward toward the ceiling.
I saw more shelves through a tiny opening where railing otherwise cover the area.
:O
After finding the stairs I then wandered around there. I found Ns and Qs but PL was still evading me.
Then I saw another floor.
:O
So I went upstairs and then found myself all in PQ.
:(
After making sure that, yes, there are no PLs on the fourth floor I went back down to the third. At the far back (everything in my life seems to be at the far back) I found a small row for PL and there, used only once, sat Salad Anniversary.
Unfortunately all this searching only left ten minutes for me to get to class so I grabbed the book, went down to the first floor, did a naughty thing and stuffed it on a shelf I would remember, hoped no one would notice it was vastly out of place, then ran out for class. (I didn't know where the check-out desk was and didn't want to be late so I had to leave it somewhere!)
Later on, like a good girl, I came back, got my book, and checked it out.
Whee!
(Please not that while I could have asked one of the two assistants shelving/wandering around on all the floors for help I was keeping myself entertained by hiding from them. An hour by yourself is very boring and in an empty library why not act silly?)
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[11 Sep 2008|11:17am] |
今日、日本語のミニテストをした。
とても易しかったよ～
でも、クラスメートたちは「難しかった」と言った。
勉強したら良いでしょうね、皆
速くて終わったから、となりの男のテストを見た。
全部の紙は白かった。；＿；
頑張って・・・
LEOPARD FIGHTING WITH SNAKE!
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[09 Sep 2008|11:40pm] |
( Something I've written that I like :O )
Yeah, so it was written quickly at 11:30PM. Whatever. I needed to get it out of the way before I forgot about it for homework. It's meant to be in the genre of an Onion article. It was in reply to an article complaining about how teachers grade too harshly and make students feel sad inside. :'(
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[09 Sep 2008|05:36pm] |
I watched 1984 today. I was quite impressed with it and I thought it did the book good justice. It didn't try to hide any sex or nudity and the actors weren't stunning beauties. Of course there were some differences between the original book and what the movie did but they weren't so distractingly bad it made it like another story all together (hello, I am Legend).
The girl across from me is demanding Dell give her an entire new computer because she can't manage to get a program to work, making it all Dell/Vista's fault and not that she's possibly overlooking some details.
CU has Dell-certified people working in the computer store to fix Dell computer problems but rather than see those guys she would rather have them send her a brand spankin' new one "by tomorrow."
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[05 Sep 2008|01:52pm] |
I went to the East Asian section of the library today for an assignment.
It smells horrible in there. Like rotting books and nerd sweat.
The weather is drizzly and cold and gloomy today. Which is just naturally poor weather for a Friday, but even poorer because it's the birthday of someone on the hall and there is a comedy act I plan on attending at 8.
But my writing teacher passed back our previous work. I got an A+ for my AMAZING wanted ad :3.
I don't think it'll be so good this time. It was a poorly written "letter to the editor" with me writing as a Chinese communist. (We had read various accounts--newspaper and otherwise--about Tiananmen Square for our assignment.)
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[04 Sep 2008|08:13am] |
I had a dream that David was dating Kori (my hot model friend) and there was a point of time when we were all hanging out together that David decided to show off how he had no abs. So he pulled up his shirt, breathed in, and proved that, indeed, he had no abs.
Then Kori decided to show off her actual abs. She was wearing a bikini bathing suit so she didn't need to pull up anything, so instead she grabbed one of her bikini cups and pulled it aside so her breast came out. The nipple was grossly large but I still leaned down, mesmerized, to lick it. But I came out of her spell at the last second, shook my head, and pulled away.
However, David was still quite upset by the action and refused to speak with me. Kori, entirely oblivious, drifted away to another part of the room while I tried to get David's forgiveness using such good methods as "But she's so hot!" and "Your girlfriend's just so hot!"
It didn't work.
So, instead, I went to work as a waitress. There was a customer who had a crush on me and I had been teasing for a while so finally I wrote on the specialty board: How will you redeem yourself?
I wanted a date but he couldn't figure that out; he just kept suggesting buying me gifts.
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