I had time to sleep, no classes today. Because there are too many holidays on mondays, there wouldn’t be enough monday classes in this semester, so today’s considered monday at the university. In my case this means a four day weekend… And thanks to this freedom i don’t feel all that ashamed that after my alarm went off at eight i just couldn’t wake up enough to get out of my bed until ten. Though even like this i slept less than seven hours, i feel totally refreshed, and after my breakfast coffee (still the mandheling) my energy is on a long time top. Actually, that’s probably the reason i started writing. And here i am writing about why i’m writing, and now again. This morning browsing around twitter reminded me how these community services change the way you use them. It’s supposed to be about writing your statuses, but very quickly it turns into some kind of self-marketing and/or chat platform for most. That’s one point why i like blogs more: they are harder to change into something like that. Also, they contain more interesting and longer contents.

I think i’ll get a job.

Even though i went to bed around, before, roughly at, one in the night, i couldn’t get to sleep for way too long probably therefore was totally washed all day. Not fun. Apparently i shouldn’t have slept all way from Tokyo on the train. Also, it took way too long to script myself an alarm in bash for waking me up if i take a short nap for refreshing me. I forgot everything, and all, apparently, of what i learnt at my home university. I will have to revise. And even though i took that “refreshing” nap for ten-fifteen-twenty minutes, i don’t feel that refreshed at all. I even forgot why i wanted so much to write this post.

Recently i was asked many times about my names. For a very long time now, online i’ve only used valerauko and its variants. Where does it come from?

Tomorrow the scholarship will come, at least it’s supposed to, saving me. I’ll start with buying a pan for making pancakes and a new pack of coffee, because i’m running out of it (again). Saturday i plan to head for Tokyo, meet up with friends during the weekend and come back sunday or monday. One thing sure: i’ll buy myself as much cheese as possible, because nowhere around here could i find cheese in normal price range and amount, and i need a lot. One block of cheese usually lasts 1-2 months, depending on how many times i have dinner, and whether i use it for cooking as well (for pasta, pizza and stuff).

Other than that, going to Tokyo, i have absolutely no plans for this one and a half weeks of break. I will probably go to Osaka once, go on to Kobe, probably Nagoya as well, just to see the surroundings. I’ve already been to Kyoto twice (true, Osaka once as well), but i may go back again for more sightseeing. I really want to spend my time well. Also, with the EEM (Eastern European Method), i can travel by train quite cheap, as long as i don’t need to change lines too much.

I also hope i’ll get my credit card soon, and then… well. We’ll see.

In Neil Gaiman’s Graveyard Book the Jacks play a significant role. I’m not a native english speaker so i didn’t know that this “Jack of all trades” is a phrase quite famous, indicating someone who is a jack (man) of all trades, but master of none. I’m wondering if i could actually become master of any. Master, as in top. Or will i, do i have to embrace the fact that i’m just an average human being?

It’s one thing i’m aware of that, and another is that i accept it. I don’t plan to.

I obviously can’t be a master of any trade. There are always people better than me in all fields, people who sacrifice most else to excel in one field—and i’m not one of those. I never liked the idea of specialization, in rpg games i always suffered for every level because i was building warmages, capable of dealing decent damage and also casting powerful spells, instead of a specialized mage or warrior. I don’t really have a special talent in any field either, nor the discipline to do sacrifices to win over those who have talents. Instead of becoming a short-sighted scientist, i want to become someone who can at least see what’s going on in general. I don’t want to be the doctor laureate who doesn’t know where Laos is.

I think, now, totally dazed by sleepiness, that i’d rather be a jack of all trades, than a master of none. (Play on the original phrase, hell yeah.)