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図書館に行かなきゃから、J302の宿題グループのこと大嫌いだぞ　　(>_<)

I went to an earlier A202 lecture today, before Japanese. For some reason, I’m waking up crazy early in the morninig. After Japanese, it was only like 11, but I’m free for the entire afternoon! It really is nice….like finals week, where you’re here but don’t have to do anything. Anyways, I went to the bookstore to buy my Japan guidebook for E497, then looked at some cubicles for the office with Kieran, and caused trouble in Johnny Ho’s Japanese class. Went to Nakamichi-sensei’s office hours, then the Dragon for lunch. Saw Alvis there….that was quite frightening, especially at a place such as the Dragon.

Class Summary, observations thus far:

J302 (Japanese) – About the same as last semester. Drill is going to be a blast while lecture will bore me. A lot.

S370 (Honors Stats) – Although it’s a class in the econ department, I think I might be able to do decent in this one. It’s more math based, and you use Excel a lot. Professor is an old Russian guy with a British-perhaps sounding accent. Could be a villain in a movie.

X204 (Business Communications) – Seems like it will be easy with a lot of busywork. Just like X104 was, probably

L201 (Business Law) – It’s a larger lecture, which I wasn’t expecting. I think I might actually get into this

A202 (Managerial Accounting – Just like A201, but the material is more managerial stuff and not numbers and crap like that. When she said “You’ll never hear me say debit or credit, T-account”, etc, I was so happy I can’t explain

E496 (Spring Break Japan) – I don’t have this until Thursday, but I think it will be more amusing than anything. Plus I get to go to Japan.

I haven’t posted here in quite a while, but it’s OK because I don’t think anyone reads this. I’ve been back in Bloomington since Friday, and classes have since resumed. I guess it had to start sometime. These first few days haven’t been bad yet, but I can definitley see things getting killer later on (I have 4 classes in a row on Mon and Wed). In addition to that, my sleep schedule has been really messed up, although fairly consistent. Right now I take a long, around 4 or 5 hour nap in the afternoon or evening, then sleep at night from about 2AM to 5AM. Waking up that early is really weird, especially when you’re not tired but feel you should be.

So I did the whole high-school presentation thing today for a few hours. I don’t know if the people who were supposed to be listening to me soaked up anything, but at least maybe it will inspire them to make something. It’s all going to be up to them, Donnelly can’t really teach them to do anything and I don’t think he is going to force them. I realize that a majority of the people in there, like when I attended LHS, don’t really care about what’s going on, and they’re just in there to screw around. I don’t blame them; there’s not much structure really. But hey, when I was there at least I would make stuff. I dunno, I’m not worrying about it or anything, although it would be nice if they can at least keep that department open and running until someone can get in there and whip them into shape.

Went and saw The Last Samurai tonight, also. EXCELLENT movie….wish I would have seen it earlier. I’m almost tempted to go see it again, maybe sometime the next week or two when classes aren’t too heavy yet. And now I’m enjoying the last episode of Unscrewed on TechTV that I will watch while I’m in town, as I pack up my stuff to go back to Bloomington tomorrow. Computer’s going off now also….

So I went to visit LHS today because I needed to get a high school transcript for my Tokyo application. I stopped by Donnelly’s (my old journalism/video) teacher’s room to see what was up. Needless to say, things around there aren’t much different from when I was there, except for a lot more money pumped into useless equipment, and a lot less POS (my old video team/buds, who kept the place sane). Sales reps tried selling these standalong video editor things to the district back when I was there, but I kept them from buying such junk. But apparently my words of advice didn’t stick, and I come back to my old high school where they have 5 of these machines (total $10,000). They could have bought a nice room of iMacs or something to edit on. I’m still a stickler for Final Cut Pro to video edit on.

Anyways, I’m going tomorrow morning to teach/lecture in Donnelly’s 2nd hour class. That’s the class that is working on their current news/announcements show, and I’m going to try and give my words of wisdom. Or at least try to give them some ideas and pointers to salvage a show. I borrowed a book of DVD-Rs (with a single 5 minute show per disc….) and they could definitley use some help. People are still editing in iMovie, they don’t use tripods, etc. Their show could be so much better with a bit of organization and fine-tuning. They hadn’t established this news show by the time I graduated, but I had always pushed for something like this. I guess I’m going tomorrow to try and give pointers to a project of “mine” that I never got to work on.

And that’s the end of my LHS Electronic Media rant.