the brothers crow

Oh accursed irresponsibility, distractions, occasional catastrophe and responsibility, how you sweep me away and steal my time~

This hasn’t changed really, so I’m going to make this quick so I can still get some rest for the 2+ hours of driving I get to do tomorrow.

- I take Japanese classes now. They seem to help, but they eat up my time and money. I drive more that 2 hours every Tuesday and about 4 hours every Wednesday. Coupled with the random stuff that keeps happening on weekends, I drive a lot. Thank god I drive a K car.

- I can’t remember the last time I played a video game, other than freecell. This doesn’t bother me too much, but it just goes to show that there are some ways I’m not wasting my time.

- I listen to a stupid amount of music. Tuesday nights take me near a CD rental store, and they have this sweet deal going where I can grab five CDs for about $10. It’s good for a week, so I just go back after each Tuesday’s class. I use this to listen to lots of Japanese music, which both improves my Japanese and keeps me sane during the long drives. The radio isn’t bad either, but they spend a lot more time talking than playing music, and it’s usually about really silly topics, like making up improv raps describing some embarrassing childhood incident involving a swimming pool (this really was a topic once, and it went on for a whole hour).

- I have the JLPT coming up in less than a month. I’m taking 2-kyu and am horribly unprepared. Oddly enough, this doesn’t bother me as much as I would have thought. I still intend to study when I can, but I’ve accepted the fact that it’s not the end of the world if I don’t pass, especially since I can take it in July now if I like. The actually improvement I’m gaining in my spoken Japanese through my current methods is far more important, I feel, than cramming for a certification which probably wouldn’t even represent my actual skill. Damn shame if I waste the $60 I spent on it though…

- I bought a violin. No seriously, I was in a mall on Sunday and looking at instruments when I realized they had some really cheap violins. I say cheap, in that it didn’t cost the $800 plus that I had seen in most other places. Granted, it still cost me $80, but it was actually new. I’ve barely started to play with it, but it’s already bringing back lots of memories.

Anyway, until I get time to write something more respectable, this little info dump will have to do.