Today, Wednesday 18th

Sorry that last post was late, I used Skype on Monday to get in contact with everyone and cover the bases and thanks to mid-terms and just general chaos I haven't been able to get one on one time with Mr. Computer. One thing I did get today that was filled with awesome was a program for iTunes. It's called Mytunes Redux and you know how if you use iTunes on a network you can see other people's playlists and listen them, but not do anything else? Well this lets you take and download the songs onto your computer. For someone with no downloading abilities and a network filled with people from around the world, this is GREAT. Kim watched in mock horror at some of the things I downloaded and then approved of pretty much everything else. I have no idea what anyone would say if they looked at my collection of music as a whole, it's very very random.

Today's midterm was my oral exam for level three, which involved me going into my teacher's office and pretending I was visiting a family called the Yamashita's and being late. I figured she'd be doing the test, but I got in to find out it was the TA and my teacher was sitting at her desk behind this cubical thing with a little tape recorder proped up behind me. I did everything I was supposed to up until "Yamashita-san" asked "Blah blah blah go nin blah blah desu ka" Seriously, that's how it sounded and I froze up. I heard "go" (five) and "nin" counter for people and it was a question so I asked, "who?" and then she repeated it to the same effect. I was supposed to finish off by asking five questions so maybe this "nin" thing was wrong, so I launched right into my five questions and we ended. It was bugging the HECK out of me what the hell she was talking about and after talking to a few other students they explained what it was. She asked, go NEN, which means five YEARS, as in the sentence "Five years from now what do you want to do?", this has NOTHING to do with what we practiced and my response of "what music do you like?" probably was the most wrong answer ever. I officially suck in every sense.

So I sat with Maria, who equally fouled up her fourth level test, and I got in some computer time and we all got lunch with Victor (Maria's new bo), Patrick (Kim's ex-bo, yes, AKWARD), Nadia, Kim, and Maria. It was nice, I've been pounding down the green teas today on top of an espresso this morning and an apple tea. I should be twitching by my Arch. class and be up late enough tonight to get ready for the written mid-term tomorrow. I swear the conbini on campus will be the death of me. They have excellent drinks of all kinds in cute bottles and little snack cakes that either have monkies or strawberries on them.

I'll be around next week sometime. Good luck to Nata and her presentation that she just found out about and the 130 pages of reading. Good luck to all your other folks too.