*Japanese Sample Sentences*

I think the people who wrote my textbook may have gone a little crazy when coming up with examples to teach new grammar. For example:

こんなに愛しているのに、どうして行ってしまうのですか。
Why are you going away, even though I love you so much?

たまにはポップスもいいんじゃないかと思って、スチービーワンダーのテープを持ってきた。
I thought it might be nice for you to listen to some pop music occasionally so I brought at Stevie Wonder tape.

(The next two are together in an example set)
鈴木さんは酔っぱらってしまいました。
Suzuki-san got drunk.
田中さんも酔っぱらっちゃった．
Tanaka-san got drunk too.

あんな人は嫌いです。
I hate that sort of person.

誰でもいいから、ちょっと来てください。
Anyone will do; come here for a minute. (They're translation is what's funny- it sounds so sordid!)

Anyways, I've got yet another quiz tomorrow then a big test Friday. Yugh. Ick. Ew. Blech. Plus Japanese Lit tomorrow, which is getting increasingly more painful to attend. On plus side, have very little reading left for that class as have read two of the assigned Noh play readings. Hoorah. Small victory- light one firework for me.

Got what I needed done today sans some of the study time that was spent doing other non-school things/errands/etc. Am yet again watching Burn Notice, as completed Lois and Clark seasons one and two last week (or week before...) but forgot to mention it. Also writing a bit after Bridget Jones because I tend to mimic whatever I'm reading and it's a diary so the temptation is even greater.

Tried a Sweet Potato Apple Orange smoothie today which wasn't half so tasty as it sounded. Come to think of it, it just sounds weird, but I've been curious for months, so... Anyway, a "large" size is approx. 8 ounces (the small, I'm guessing, is 5). Tiny thing. Not tasty. Again "Yuch. Ick. Ew. Blech."

Must remember to ask Kayoko if she wants my English-language novels (the ones that are getting left behind O.O). Must also attempt to finish Bridget Jones before leaving country as can purchase for prob. 25 cents back home. Also, think I'll try to get the next level Japanese texts here because app. they aren't produced in U.S. and thus cost CRAZY amounts back home. Will probably have to take with me on my carry on as result of weight (also taking at least two of my Japanese texts back with me, prob. nearer four >.< from this semester). Ooh, the next text is "An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese" plus "Intermediate Kanji Book." Wow, I feel so intermediary. Wait, that's a noun. Like, I feel so bus. That ought to be slang. Spread the word. Go my little Eight Degrees of Separation ones and find Kevin Bacon, who shall be our Vessel of the Word.

Actually a thinly-veiled ReBoot reference that pretty much no one will get. BTW, if you write a blog and you are reading this, update your blog. Honestly, honestly, honestly, I am bored of having no blogs to read. Sersly, they don't count as non-study time because it's keeping in contact. So pleeeease update! Tomorrow. Good. Excused.

I had a funny anecdote that I'd meant to relate but, alack, alas! have forgotten. I've been working on it- honestly! Oh, I think it was the Japanese thing. And there was an amusing bit in BJ:EOR I wanted to relate, but not feeling much for typing it up at present. Plus, I think you all might've read it O.o

Okay, good night good night! Sweet sleep, my minions.

<3

Oh, and
R: Still BJ, obviously
L: Shores of White Sand- Emmylou Harris