You would think after ... let's see ... at least 17 years of taking tests, I would no longer get nervous or anxious over tests. Especially tests that I think will not be too hard or even worth worry about. Apparently, my brain hasn't gotten the memo about that one.
Instead of watching the rest of the Men's Figure skating competition last night - which was great based on the part I saw - I went to bed early at 10 to be ready for my test today. And yet, I tossed and turned worried that my alarm clock - actually 2 alarm clocks wouldn't go off. Silly, silly.
When I got to school today after walking through the freezing cold which will just colder (could they really be using the Fahrenheit scale when they projected the a low of 5 tonight or a high of 12 tomorrow!), I was tired. I felt like I had jag lag. Which is just ridiculous. It reminded me of the first few days we were in Japan. No matter how hard I tried, I would be wide awake at about 4 or 5 in the morning. We'd walk over to the Funai's apartment by 6. It was ridiculous. And though you are wide awake - it's fuzzy ... the whole world feels fuzzy. Like how the world sounds different when you yawn really wide because you can hear the sound in your body. Just like that, exactly the whole world feels that way - bathed in a weird light. I'm hoping it's not like that to or from London. I don't think I had jetlag in Paris ... and when we came home ... well, I was way too sick to remember.
Friday, February 17, 2006
Thursday, February 09, 2006
February
January was nice and beautiful ... warm all the time, no need for coats and lots of sunshine (opposed to the 7 minutes of sunshine in the previous month or something like that). Alas - it could not last and February has come. The month when it's cold outside and dark and you wake up and just want to keep sleeping and never get out of bed. So, there doesn't seem much to report. Katsu and I are both really busy. We seem to have something going on all the time. And I'm kind of tired of it. When we get back from spring break, I want to limit our social obligations to the most possible. We need more "us" time. And who can believe that spring break is so soon! We are excited about that.
And of course, our kitty Joe is still lots of fun!!! He cracks us up, mostly. He always wants to play - brings his toys over to you and just gives you this look.
That's us.
And of course, our kitty Joe is still lots of fun!!! He cracks us up, mostly. He always wants to play - brings his toys over to you and just gives you this look.
That's us.
Third way into the semester
Hi. This is Katsu and this is my first post in this blog. I'd check this blog once in a while to see what secrets of our lives Amanda have been revealing to the public.
It's been busy for both of us, but that's not a news to anybody. We don't intend to be busy, but the world sometimes forces us to. Amanda and I try not to conform to the way world sees how we should be/appear successful, and since the world makes us work harder than what we think we really have to, we usually get away with not doing as much as others may. For example, neither of us have ever studied overnight. We are not lazy, we just don't do it unless it's worth it. Anyway, even then, right now we are busy.
At the end of this month, we have a research grant that is going to be submitted from my lab, so I decided that I am going to halt my project for a week and help get data for the grant. For a reason I rather not explain, today I find myself not much to do until 2pm. Thus I write this post.
I report that Amanda has been busy, mainly because her lecturers are retarded. Well, at least one of them is. As I explained before, we are both hooked into not submitting to being busy, and one way of doing this, is by doing the assignments right away. Amanda does her homeworks right away, too, but basically her lecturer (by the way this lecturer is a professor by title but by intelligence not one, therefore I classify him/her a lecturer) makes mistakes in the questions that makes the homework incomprehensible that even post-docs of Nobel Prize Winner (remember that Nobel Prize Winners don't actually do their work) cannot solve. For example, this moron made 9 corrections in 8 days. Do you know what this means? This means that probably your email box was filled more with his emails than the numbers of spams when you get back from your visit to China. I can't believe this incompetent moron is allowed to teach in psuedo-prestigious institution. On top of it, he gives her take home midterm over the weekend. It is going to be posted on Friday night and is due on Monday morning. Hallo~? What happen to some of us keeping sabbath day holy and use Saturday to run errands, spend time with family, prepare for sabbath? In fact we are performing service that Saturday to local middle school as Science fair judges. You can let us know that these things are happening maybe at least one month in advance? I think these professors (by this I mean, not just this moron but all professors) assume that when a student is a student, he/she is always student. We have commitments, too? I am going to shoot Cuban missile to them next time I see them pull out this crap. Oh sorry, not PC.
I used to post on livejournal, and my posts were long. You can stop reading here if you want to. I had a final this Monday and I think I did okay. The class was a female dog, and they made us come to the class on MLK day by saying "you are not required to come, but it is very important that you do", given that there were several African American students in the class. Of course everybody shows up, and the professors decides to go half an hour over, because she knows that nobody has a class on MLK day. The class content was good, and I learned a lot about things you will never care about in million years, but are useful in my currently non-existent career. That class is now finished, but now a second modules started yesterday and go till the end of March and third module go to the end of semester. I hate that word now, "module", oh, wow you are so smart, next time I am going to register for a class I am going to bring my blue encyclopedia just in case I am going to encounter some ambigiuos terminology.
We are going to London in 2 weeks and we are certainly excited. I am mostly excited to see my brother, chill out and have a good time watching Amanda excited to see all kinds of places, and buy Chelsea souvenirs. I have been saving my fun-cash for last several months (our fun-cash is $20/mos) so that I can spend it on Chelsea shirt. If you don't know what Chelsea is, go away. Anyway, I think we are going to Bath and perhaps Cambridge, too. Because we just have an abundancy of money that we don't know what to do with. Oh, and we are also planning to go to a pub and get into a fist fight with bloody hooligans about how Liverpool fans are all criminals. Amanda doesn't know about this plan yet.
In contrast to what I have said in my second paragraph, I am too lazy to correct the old link to my website on the right, so here it is: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kfunai
It's been busy for both of us, but that's not a news to anybody. We don't intend to be busy, but the world sometimes forces us to. Amanda and I try not to conform to the way world sees how we should be/appear successful, and since the world makes us work harder than what we think we really have to, we usually get away with not doing as much as others may. For example, neither of us have ever studied overnight. We are not lazy, we just don't do it unless it's worth it. Anyway, even then, right now we are busy.
At the end of this month, we have a research grant that is going to be submitted from my lab, so I decided that I am going to halt my project for a week and help get data for the grant. For a reason I rather not explain, today I find myself not much to do until 2pm. Thus I write this post.
I report that Amanda has been busy, mainly because her lecturers are retarded. Well, at least one of them is. As I explained before, we are both hooked into not submitting to being busy, and one way of doing this, is by doing the assignments right away. Amanda does her homeworks right away, too, but basically her lecturer (by the way this lecturer is a professor by title but by intelligence not one, therefore I classify him/her a lecturer) makes mistakes in the questions that makes the homework incomprehensible that even post-docs of Nobel Prize Winner (remember that Nobel Prize Winners don't actually do their work) cannot solve. For example, this moron made 9 corrections in 8 days. Do you know what this means? This means that probably your email box was filled more with his emails than the numbers of spams when you get back from your visit to China. I can't believe this incompetent moron is allowed to teach in psuedo-prestigious institution. On top of it, he gives her take home midterm over the weekend. It is going to be posted on Friday night and is due on Monday morning. Hallo~? What happen to some of us keeping sabbath day holy and use Saturday to run errands, spend time with family, prepare for sabbath? In fact we are performing service that Saturday to local middle school as Science fair judges. You can let us know that these things are happening maybe at least one month in advance? I think these professors (by this I mean, not just this moron but all professors) assume that when a student is a student, he/she is always student. We have commitments, too? I am going to shoot Cuban missile to them next time I see them pull out this crap. Oh sorry, not PC.
I used to post on livejournal, and my posts were long. You can stop reading here if you want to. I had a final this Monday and I think I did okay. The class was a female dog, and they made us come to the class on MLK day by saying "you are not required to come, but it is very important that you do", given that there were several African American students in the class. Of course everybody shows up, and the professors decides to go half an hour over, because she knows that nobody has a class on MLK day. The class content was good, and I learned a lot about things you will never care about in million years, but are useful in my currently non-existent career. That class is now finished, but now a second modules started yesterday and go till the end of March and third module go to the end of semester. I hate that word now, "module", oh, wow you are so smart, next time I am going to register for a class I am going to bring my blue encyclopedia just in case I am going to encounter some ambigiuos terminology.
We are going to London in 2 weeks and we are certainly excited. I am mostly excited to see my brother, chill out and have a good time watching Amanda excited to see all kinds of places, and buy Chelsea souvenirs. I have been saving my fun-cash for last several months (our fun-cash is $20/mos) so that I can spend it on Chelsea shirt. If you don't know what Chelsea is, go away. Anyway, I think we are going to Bath and perhaps Cambridge, too. Because we just have an abundancy of money that we don't know what to do with. Oh, and we are also planning to go to a pub and get into a fist fight with bloody hooligans about how Liverpool fans are all criminals. Amanda doesn't know about this plan yet.
In contrast to what I have said in my second paragraph, I am too lazy to correct the old link to my website on the right, so here it is: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kfunai
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