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[Nov. 21st, 2009|10:44 pm] |
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Well, student loans aren't gonna cover the laptop. It's gonna have to come out of pocket.
FML. |
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[Nov. 20th, 2009|04:13 pm] |
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So guess what I just got in the mail.
Acceptance from UW.
Gee, thanks, guys. Maybe we could have done this before the deadline for acceptance at Western?
A month or two ago, this would have been the best news ever. But now? Needless to say, I'm not unenrolling from Western. Not now. So this basically feels like I got flipped a gigantic bird from admissions at UW. |
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[Nov. 18th, 2009|06:09 am] |
So I decided that, if my Dad and Stepmom bug me for a Christmas list again this year, I'm going to ask for replacements of all those books my Dad got rid of that I used to own.
So I'm digging through old LJ entries and stuff looking for hints and reminders of the stuff that's missing. Curse my imperfect memory.
So far confirmed missing are:
1. Understanding Comics (Scott McCloud)
2. Reinventing Comics (Scott McCloud)
3. More manga than I frankly care to replace. Including volumes of Case Closed, Naruto, and Yu-Gi-Oh (some dating as far back as our first Uwajimaya field trip in High School!)
4. A Wrinkle In Time (Madeline L'Engle)
5. Godless (Pete Hautman)
6. A few volumes of Animorphs, Everworld, and Remnants (K.A. Applegate)
7. A Horse And His Boy, Prince Caspian (C.S. Lewis)
3 and 6 I'm not going to ask for because there were too many. 5 I won't ask for because I really don't care. 7 because I still won't have the complete series anyway. (Also applies to 6).
I really wish I had kept a record of the stuff I owned. I'm almost certain there are more books I owned that are gone now. |
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| Follow-up to last night's post |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|02:49 pm] |
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| | The Megas: Get Acoustic - Promise of Redemption | ] |
Good news: the Basic Kanji textbook is on the way from Amazon and will arrive tomorrow, wherein I'll be able to start my studying.
Better news: It is the exact same Kanji textbook that we used in my High School Japanese classes. Taylor, Michael, Beth, you will remember this thing.
I need to do exercises 1-24, and I believe that in High School, I topped out at exercise 22 or so. So that means that the vast majority of this will be review for me. I only need to do the exercises to refresh myself, which is exactly what I need to do for the professor anyways!
With any luck, I should blaze through this material and ace the test.
Silently thanking Mrs. Jones for her textbook choices. |
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| Response |
[Nov. 17th, 2009|02:50 am] |
Sorry for late response, Matt. Do you have a BASIC KANJI textbook or Foundations of Japanese Language? If you have a BASIC KANJI, why don't you submit Exceciese 1 through 24? If not, please submit wrting practice of the Kanji list of the FJL, starting 440 page. There are 210 kanjis in the list. The deadline is one week before winter term starts, but if you are done earlier, it is great. After your submission of this HW, I'll give you a kanji test. If you get more than 80%, I think you are ready to take 202.
YT
So I have to prove I know the kanji before I can register for the class? This will be... tricky.
Still, here we go, I guess. |
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[Nov. 13th, 2009|03:13 pm] |
So I did the test for placement in the Japanese program yesterday.
According to the test, my grammar is easily at the 202 level, so if that were all that mattered, I'd be in.
However, my Kanji is in considerably worse shape.
The advisor wasn't sure about whether or not I would get in. The decision will be up to the professor who teaches the 202 class, whom he'll be relaying the results to. It's my job to get into contact with him and sort things out. If I get in, I'll have to spend the whole time between now and when school starts doing self-study to catch up on Kanji.
And there's another problem. The Japanese program is being downsized; a couple 202 level classes are being merged together, and the overall capacity will be less than half of what it was. The number of seats will be bottlenecking harshly. So I have to worry about class capacity in addition to everything I mentioned above.
I'm fixing to email him right now, but it's making me a bit nervous. But this is what I was talking about before... I can't let things that scare me hold me back, because there are way too many things that scare me. I'd never get anything done.
This brings to mind a quotation I heard a long time ago, which, cheesy as it may sound, has helped me a lot over the years when I'm afraid to do something.
"Do one thing every day that scares you." The quote, I believe, is attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt.
Remembering those words helps me do things when I'm scared. And I'll be damned if there's not a lot of that going around in my life right now.
So... gonna do this. And fuck the consequences. |
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| Referendum 71 |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|07:58 pm] |
Dear Washington.
I know we've had our disagreements. I know things get rocky between us every now and then. But in spite of all that, I just wanted to say...
...Don't stop being you. I love this state.
That's all.
--Love, Matt
P.S., do work on that other 47%, though, huh? |
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