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Japanese youngsters who keep writing "bed" as ベット and "bag" as バック, especially in the dream SS I shouldn't be reading anyway. FUCKING STOP IT YOU ARE DRIVING ME INSANE. Also, puppies are not "pups," kittens are not "kits," and I can't believe the author of that FAQ I read mixed up their and they're and your and you're. Look, I can be cantankerous, too.

I finished my Vietnamese class today. Yes! I'm so proud of myself, or rather, I know I should be proud of myself but I just don't feel it. :/ I think I did all right on the final exam---maybe in the B range? But more importantly, my parents say they're going to buy me something to reward me for taking and doing well in a difficult college course. I think I'm going to ask for Dragon Shadow Spell or Summon Night 4. :3 As for my next course, I will be taking the easiest course possible in expository writing. It doesn't even count for a credit, but the important part is that I'm getting out of the house and seeing people while I take this course. And getting a little practice in writing before I try to take a course in Japanese history.

Oh yes. My family has bought a house. In Western MA. The paperwork isn't done yet but it's basically ours. It's a little smaller than the one we have now, but there's a fireplace and a room for me and heated floors. And it's on a patch of land that includes a river, with a place for swimming...sometime in the summer, I'm gonna go out there to swim at midnight skyclad. (b≧∇≦)b And nobody will see me because it's, like, out in the middle of a forest! Right! XD (Don't worry, she's just kidding. I think.)

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The disadvantage of easy writing courses is that they are more likely to be taught by crazy people. I got a C in freshman English. (Everyone in the room who finds it likely that I wrote essays at a below average level for a college freshman four years ago, raise your hands. I did not care for that teacher) Then again, froshling classes also attract the best profs- the one who are brilliant and love fresh young faces. I had a great freshman history class. It's a very mixed bag.

The house sounds great. I could vacation in Western MA some time. Ha ha, vacation as a verb.

Vacation as a verb. You're so yuppie.

It's Harvard Extension, meaning adult education, so I'm actually hoping it will neither have a crazy teacher or a super nice teacher. Maybe someone nice and in between, with students that are mostly older than me. But I've only taken one course with these people so far, so how the heck should I know?

Vacation as a verb, that's a knee-slapper. I haven't been to it yet but I like what I hear.

Yeah, adult education classes definitely tend to have more mellow teachers. The teachers are their b/c they want the money, not to actuate some lifelong yearning to inspire tender young minds. It's all business to them, so they treat the students like responsible adults and don't belittle them or deliberately make them feel bad. It's a very refreshingly professional relationship. There's no feeling of "I'm better than you are" when you have 300 bewildered 18 yr-old freshmen in a giant lecture hall listening to a 60 yr-oldtenured professor try to explain why a nitrogen triple bond makes federal buildings collapse.

Yes, that's exactly how it was in my Vietnamese class. Furthermore, the class was very easy because the teacher knew people were taking it late at night after a hard day of work (well, I wasn't, but everybody else in my class was) and he didn't want to give us a lot of crap.

eep, awesome! pictures?

Eventually. :3

You're moving? What town?

I don't want to say in my journal because people will see it. It's 36 minutes to Amherst, though.

Heated floors!? Better not tell Kithal the next time we're in the US in winter... otherwise you may find him glued to your floor. XD

Muahahahahaha. I should have you guys over some time. But maybe not in winter X3