October 06. 2004 21:30

Restlessness

I'm so restless that I don't feel like writing my diary. But I think I kinda should, or I'll build up so much to write it'll take ages to finish it. The reason behind all this restlessness is the final Harry Potter book, which I think about all the time, even though I have enough other things to do to fill my 24 hours. I'm not really restless about the book itself, but more because it keeps me from doing all these other important things. I have my Japanese homework, which I forced myself to do just now, the Nike Swim website which I still haven't finished (now I finally have the files I need...), and all the other school stuff (including a plot for a one minute animation, some research on Japanese candy and a comic plot so I have something to do in the Editing class). I'm not really worried about anything else than the Japanese and the Nike Swim, but my rough day at school combined with a lot of stuff I had to remember to get from the Internet made my head hurt. It's a first, by the way, during my time here. The free time's been good to me, usually my head hurts all the time. (Or remarcably often, at least.)

Basically, now that I look at what I have hanging, I don't really have that much that's in a hurry. Going through them all like this clears my head a bit... Phew. I need a bit more sleep so I can keep my head together.

So, I finally got my final class schedule sorted out. There are no "hands-on" courses in the morning and my afternoon is already full, so I had to take a few extra lecture courses to fill the gap in my hour plan. In addition to the three Thorn teaches (which are okay because he can always explain the main points in English) I now have two courses that have genuine Japanese speaking teachers. On Tuesdays I'm taking "About Media Art", which is okay because the teacher speaks very clearly and his notes are easy to follow, and on Wednesdays there's "About Network Art Logic", which is a disaster. I heard that it's a new course and they're not completely sure about the contents themselves, and the teacher appears to be a person who wouldn't be that easy to follow in my native language either. I was completely lost during class today, but I couldn't find any other course to replace it with, so I have no other choice than to try and get through it. As long as the teacher doesn't give any assignments, I think I'll get by just sitting there, but I'm a bit worried about possible exams. Essays I think I can manage, but an exam or some quiz basing on the notes from class would be impossible. I hope I can squirm out of them by being an exchange student. I'm pretty sure that'll work.

I'm actually tempted to just let it all slide and keep to my Story Manga classes, just forget about getting the 15 credits per month goal and take it easy, but that'll come back at me when they demand the student money back. Sigh. Life is too rough. I hope I at least get the projects for Finland away with as soon as possible, so I'll be free to concentrate on drawing and writing scripts. I have a bad habit of worrying about all the unfinished work and never getting into doing it, and then I'll just feel anxious all the time. Now the Harry Potter book is keeping me occupied, so I can't concentrate on anything else as much as I'd like, so I hope I get it done as soon as possible. Or get some more self discipline.

I wonder if I could move on to other things now that I've went through most of the angsty bits of my thoughts... Hmm. I can't remember much happening yesterday, and there certainly wasn't anything interesting going on today, besides the angst, which I already covered. I'm pretty sure I had a lot more to write about yesterday evening.

Well, there was a small earthquake yesterday morning again, but it was so tiny that it was more like two waves through the house. It took less than a second. Woke me up, but nothing more. Then I guess there was some sort of a celebration further away south, because there were really pretty fireworks going on at 18.30. I had a nice, almost clear view straight from my bedroom window, so I could enjoy the dance of the sparks in the sky from a warm and comfortable place.

As for today, I forgot to go to the post office again. I hope they don't get rid of my package. I'll try and get there tomorrow. But when I got home, I reserved a seat in the night bus to Tokyo for the 17th, when my parents arrive. The night bus is the cheapest way of getting there (and back), if you can withstand spending the night in a bus. It costs only 4800 yen one way. When we come back, we're taking the Shinkansen, which is about 15000 yen, but it takes less time and I wouldn't take my parents in the night bus.

I've been planning on getting an electronic dictionary from Tokyo when I get there. I also need to get a cell phone before my parents arrive, so that I can keep in touch with them somehow. As I realized that they could bring me a Nokia phone from Finland when they come, the idea of getting a Japan/Finland compatible phone got new wings. I'm not sure if the Nokia phones that work are too expensive, though.

When I finished dinner today and walked upstairs, there was a lovely smell of home in the corridor. A lot of the girls were making dinner or doing other household tasks tonight about the same time as me. (Which unfortunately means the washing machine is taken...) I breathed the scent of home in as much as I could on the way to my room.

Uhh... Now my headache is making me so tired that I think I'll go put the clothes in the machine and go lie down with my book. Or sleep, if it goes down to that. The kids should be about to get to Hogwards now, so I suppose it'll be a nice few chapters ahead.

Now I remember what I was supposed to write yesterday. About my thoughts on the Harry Potter books. But that'll have to wait, then... And I could mention, because this I won't be interested in writing down later on, that the girls in my class wanted to see some of my drawings today. One of them asked for one as well, actually. I felt somewhat ashamed, because they're all a lot better than me and I don't have anything but the sketchbook with me here, so there's no real work to show. I'm not sure if they were happy or disappointed or what, but at least they said they were cute. Though they say that about a lot of things. But I'm pretty flattered that one of them was very taken by my hair the other day.