blogging because i feel very accomplished today! making a list really helped to show me how much i needed to rush things i think, because i felt so motivated to do work today. updating the list now! thought of more things that i needed to get done anyway.

- finish 2 more transcribings just 1 left
- finish lek's data analysis
- finish tarn's data analysis
- study for the placement test ):
- open a bank account
- pack
- meet my sister for lunch
- get my brother's birthday present giving him money because i can't find the cd he wants
- meet the pooks for dinner on thursday
- meet the interns for breakfast on friday
- meet wynne, sam and rab for dinner on friday
- meet su kie for lunch on sunday
- get bags for the cameras :D and a screen protector for oly
- get random stuff i need for the trip
- exchange money

data analysis jobs aren't quite done yet but they haven't given me new things to do yet so i'm going to just strike them off first.

i think i will put packing off until at least saturday or sunday.

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"what marks his plays is the way things get so mixed up the characters are trapped. do you see what i mean? lots of different people appear, and they all have their own situations and reasons and excuses, and each one is pursuing his or her own idea of justice or happiness. as a result, nobody can do anything. obviously. i mean, it's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over. and then what do you think happens? simple -- a god appears at the end and starts directing the traffic. 'you go over there, and you come here, and you get together with her, and you just sit still for a while.' like that. he's a kind of fixer, and in the end everything works out perfectly. they call this 'deus ex machina'."

--- watanabe describing euripides in norwegian wood

kind of disappointed with norwegian wood actually, because i was half-expecting it to become an all-time favourite given the rave reviews it had gotten. it's sadly quite flat on the whole when you consider the book in its totality, but where it shines is in little moments i think. like that paragraph i just quoted.

sometimes i feel like we're all just really stuck in the middle of a euripidean tragedy.

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wish the typhoon would just go away, seriously.

music: just a feeling; maroon 5

Labels: goodstuff, thoughts

tune out the world ; 10:46 PM

last week left here before i leave for japan and it's crazy how much i have left to do. actually it's not even a week, since it's already past midnight so that means i have 6 days left here. so, in a bid to prove to myself how i need to stretch these 6 days way thin to actually finish what i have to do, i'm going to list them all.

- finish 2 more transcribings
- finish lek's data analysis
- finish tarn's data analysis
- study for the placement test ):
- open a bank account
- pack
- meet my sister for lunch
- get my brother's birthday present
- meet the pooks for supper on wednesday and dinner on thursday
- meet the interns for breakfast on friday
- meet su kie for dinner on sunday
- get bags for the cameras :D
- get random stuff i need for the trip

and i think there's more stuff that i can't remember at the moment. i just know that there's a lot i have to deal with now and i need to finish them all before i leave so i won't have to rush everything in japan.

need more timeeeeeee. ):

music: just a feeling; maroon 5

Labels: thoughts

tune out the world ; 1:24 AM

stab me now.

apparently my transcribing job is not yet over. ):

music: soundscape to ardor; bleach ost

Labels: bad stuff

tune out the world ; 8:48 PM

imagine having a library like that. actually just imagine being in a library like that.

oh and this is probably the first photo from the new camera that i'm showing you guys. although i am tearing my hair out and cannot begin to comprehend why sometimes numbers just keep flashing at me and why the camera refuses to take photos i am still having a lot of fun with it. too much fun, really, because it's a major distraction when i should probably be revising really hard for my placement test.

anyway to take that picture i accidentally made a new crease in the spine of the book. ):< don't know if i've told anyone else before (i know i told my sister though) but i really like my books to be nicely kept. it doesn't have to be completely pristine but i really don't like books with random creases down the spine or folded corners. that said, however, if it has to be old and well-read i'd rather it be extremely so. just not somewhere in the middle. okay i know i'm weird that way. stop thinking i'm weird i already know i am.

i hope this post works out to be a long one. yes, this is my attempt to prove that my brain is not yet completely twitterified and i can still think thoughts that are more than 140 characters long. actually, does anyone else find it difficult to encapsulate everything into 140 characters? i frequently find myself going over the limit and having to go back and type everything in short form or rephrasing everything altogether. and then it doesn't even feel like something i would type any more.

i'm not sure when i started typing in full sentences without abbreviations and all and with (dare i say it) decent grammar even for things like text messages and stuff online. but i think it's a good thing. at least it stops my language ability from degenerating any further, i suppose. although i guess it's probably not very good for people receiving my texts because they routinely end up several pages long. speaking of which, does anyone else find obscenely short messages annoying? this is not directed at anyone in particular, by the way. i don't think i have friends like this it's usually just people from school. anyway i just find really short texts very frustrating. it's like talking to someone who doesn't want to talk and just grunts in reply. especially people with iphones and blackberries. you know how the text message screen is styled like a chat window so in addition to obscenely short messages they send you several at one go. so for people like me still using ancient nokia phones i'll be halfway through typing my essay to you and i get 3 more messages.

okay i don't know why this is shaping out to be a post full of complaints but i didn't mean for it to be! anyway i realise i never really plan my posts at all. i usually have just a few things i want to talk about but then they're usually very disparate stuff so i end up with very disjointed posts that ramble on about nothing in particular. like this one that started with a library and that has ended up in complaints.

but it's not all bad i'm actually very happy these few days. (:

alright cliffhanger ending where i don't tell you why i'm happy.

music: just a feeling; maroon 5

Labels: goodstuff, thoughts

tune out the world ; 4:00 PM

still finding it kind of surreal that in about three weeks' time i will be leaving for tokyo and leaving all that i've ever known for the next few months at least. wonder how the first few days there will feel.

Labels: thoughts

tune out the world ; 12:08 AM

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