Today i visited the dentist, hopefully last for a very long time. I almost got used to sitting in the waiting room for hours, and then the sharp pain as the drill touches the teeth, or as today, the buzzing sound of the x-ray machine. About the last: i only needed that because two of my teeth are mysteriously missing (the funny is that one of my sisters-in-law has the same two teeth missing too) and the dentist wanted to check if they are still there in the bone hiding or are totally missing (luckily it’s the latter). Since then i’ve had lunch (i could, because there was no serious drilling today) and listened to the new HammerFall album while reading feeds. And reading cocktail recipes.
Hit hard, never wake up
One more problem with me having left my phone at home: there’s nothing to wake me “early”. Since i’m not going to any classes anymore (once again: just the Tolkien course every wednesday, next one will be the last), i don’t need to wake up, but still it annoys me if i sleep just because i can. I like to wake before nine, else i feel washed all day. Like now. Though this inactivity may be just as responsible, also that i hardly have anything to eat in the past day, but yesterday when i tried to write a german essay about traditions, i failed miserably after the second paragraph–and the same happened when i tried to practice japanese (even though in two weeks i’ll need it more than any of you probably ever will). I’ve been listening to music all the way. Alternative, as much as possible, up till today noon only Kaukázus, mostly because of the gig on tuesday, but since then others too, with Boffin (i realised that i have pretty cool alter music, for example Cigaretta, that Vlad showed me during the american exchange).
But i haven’t been entirely inactive all day, i helped my friends still working hard at the uni with the scripts homework. I really enjoy writing such small stuff, especially in the new languages (Python and Perl), and they’re happy too because they don’t have to work much with them. Now i think i’ll take a leave from the machine, now listening to remotelife podcasts (no. 11 by Aurus and no. 28 by Zsukov)
Lazy
It’s no fun when you don’t have anything to do. It’s even worse if you could use that time for useful things but you’re way too lazy to move a finger. Now i’m sitting here for a way too long time in front of my notebook reading the japanese experiences of Sesam and the feeds whenever something new pops up, but i think now i’ll lay down on my bed and write a nice long german composition about whatever comes to my mind, i don’t really have an idea yet, and when i’m done with that i’ll practice japanese, at least so i plan. I could see my simulation of society systems class but what point would that be? Mostly none, since in two weeks i’ll fly to Japan and drop my studies here. The only class i’ll visit will be the one about Tolkien on wednesday—and the language courses, naturally.
So far the only problem with the “new” notebook is that the keyboard isn’t as good as could be. The space and the N key needs to be hit harder than usual, and some others don’t react as easily as i was used to it either. But it doesn’t really matter, i guess i’ll just get used to it in about no time.
News?
Now there’s no backing off… not so long ago i got the mail from the embassy informing me that my plane will set off at 9:55 AM on the first of April, to Tokyo Narita via Frankfurt. I think this will be about the same length flight as when we went to Chicago, twelve hours in the air altogether, with a two hour ground time in Frankfurt. I still have loads of stuff to do until then. The last of which is checking out of the dorm, so that someone else could take my place. The most important of which is to say goodbye to important people i probably won’t see for a very long time. The most challenging of which is to learn how to wash my stuff and learn to cook basic stuff (i don’t want to live on instant soups and such for five years)—oh and to finish as much of my webdev projects in the coming two weeks as possible. Since i won’t be attending much university classes (i think at most two a week) i’ll have time for them, the thing is i’ve to learn to divide up my time right, something i couldn’t yet accomplish.
My “new” laptop will have to undergo a total reinstall before my departure. I hope i’ll be able to get everything working all right. Today i took the time, searched and found a utility to light the “new email” led. There was one provided on the official site, but it’s no use and also about six years old without updates, while this one is just two years and i think contacting a private developer is much easier than getting in touch with Asus, in case there were problems with it (which i doubt). It’s fun to see the blue light flashing whenever i get new mail.
Meet the Smiths
On the way to Krakow and back we watched two movies on the bus. One was Meet the Fockers, a hilarious movie with a couple of big names like Ben Stiller, Robert de Niro or Dustin Hoffman. It’s not really about deep thoughts or something very philosophic, the only thing it says is what’s neccessary to keep the movie running for two hours. The hungarian translations were good too, sometimes even better than the english originals.
The other one was Mr. & Mrs. Smith. That one had a better story for sure, and seemed a lot more professional (probably because it wasn’t supposed to be a comedy). It’s very full of action, be that action shooting countless bullets and other stuff intended to kill at each other or practicing the activities of a healthy married couple with great intensity. It’s highly entertaining, even making me laugh occasionally (though mostly at scenes where i guess i’m not supposed to laugh, but it was so full of violence or tension that it was almost comical).
Both are worth watching once, focusing just and only on entertainment. Different ways, but the goal’s the same.
Last (not)
Dear diary, imagine what i did this morning! I woke up! The surprising was not the act itself but rather the time: at seven. Well, i should rather say the my phone tried to wake me then, but it wasn’t until seven twenty that i crawled out of bed. I helped some dorm people put the basement level in order for the conference on saturday, and then (after breakfast) the cleaning lady with the common room. (Honestly, i’m such a good samaritan sometimes…) I was a bit surprised when Sors showed up after a phone, though not for my sake, just to study maths with her bro. I went off to the faculty of arts to get my hat back (which i accidentally left on the bus sunday), and was practicing japanese since then. I’m still doing kanji writing excercises, it’s a bit boring, but also funny sometimes, because neither the reading nor the meaning is written there, just the kanji itself… it’s fun to figure out what a totally unknown kanji could mean, or at least how it’s supposed to be read (because then i could look it up in my dictionary), when it’s nowhere to be found anywhere around that part in the book. (I had a good laugh at myself, when looking at an unknown kanji followed by the hiragana “i”, i thought “well, here we got an adjective ending in i
“. The funny was that trying to look up an adjective by its “i” ending is like impossible, since two thirds of japanese adjectives end in “i”…) Now come dinner and more kanji.
Perfect
This is just perfect, how everything goes now. Yesterday afternoon the last of my three bad teeth was fixed, the only thing is in two weeks i’ll go back for a roentgen and a check, that’s all. I hope in my life i won’t need to hear any more times the sound of such a drill. Just after i finished at the dentist, i met with friends and together we managed to make a perfect evening. Now i’m totally “i’m lovin’ it” – and that’s not related to that around midnight we were at the local Mac. We tried a new concoction, and it worked all right, was a spirit with wine and Fanta (oh, i’m once again “adverting” a globalisation product), naturally easy to drink and still strong. So… the evening and the night was perfect. And so is now the morning. I woke with a slight hangover, but who cares, this just increases the value of the night, and with a… no, i’m not going to type that (oh yes, i’m going to, it was after a perfect night the perfect girl). Then now after a walk in town escorting her to the bus station, i’ve had a shower and read manga (the usual Naruto and Bleach, but soon the new World Embryo will be out, and i can’t wait for it), and both the Naruto and the Bleach was simply great. I wonder if i could be any happier.
Boring
I just can’t get it why they are teaching us all this crap – naturally i think later there will be loads of stuff building on these we (are supposed to) learn now, but such a rational-realist view is no fun to write about. Today was simply dead boring, the only i did and made sense was practising kanjis and reading a novel by Stanislav Lem. Yesterday we had a nice argument? talk? whatever about religions and our views on that matter (man, how officially this “on that matter” sounds!) and my opinion about a couple of people in the dorm changed significantly. There were people i didn’t even know, but i’m used to that. There were people who said stuff that i could only agree with (in the end, we could break most of the reasons of the only one strictly atheist there). In an hour i’ll leave and meet with friends (what a rare occasion!), and who knows what that’ll turn into, knowing them. The only thing sure is that it’ll be fun.
And yesterday i’ve read about a fun thing “Wikipedia names your band” and i tried it, and here’s the result:
Annoyances and nuances
For some reason my sleep tonight wasn’t as resting as it should’ve been. I went to sleep just before midnight, after reading about thirty pages of Alice in Wonderland (which i since then finished), but i couldn’t fall asleep easily. Looking back it seems i was still awake around two am, naturally i wasn’t looking at a clock or anything such that only happens in crime novels, just it felt like ages… It’s strange how similar sleep is to fainting, both comes without you realising much of it. Naturally going to sleep is a bit less uncomfortable than fainting, but to me it seems that they are basically the same, just sleep is a bit more shallow (though i’ve seen (drunken) people sleep so that we couldn’t wake them, just as if they fainted). But not sleeping enough wouldn’t change much in my everyday life, as the past week that’s what usually happens to me. What was more surprising and a lot more annoying that out of 5-6 StarCraft games we couldn’t win a single one (i was playing 2v3, allied with my brother against three computer). Really annoying. Especially that after that i wanted to burn a backup dvd, but it didn’t react to the “Cancel” button and burnt it useless. So i decided to have a tea with some sweets, and maybe watch Yozakura Quartet.
Round two
Second one done successfully, still one to go, but next friday it should be all right. Can’t wait to have this behind me. Now comes learning languages and coding all the weekend, tomorrow evening hanging out with my friends. Tonight i plan to watch last week’s Skins episode, and go to sleep early. Or not.
