A Broken Chain

You know how you can be having a pretty good day, where things are going well, just not that exciting? Everything sort of chains together throughout the day as just happening, not bad, but not fantastic, but at least all in the positive. Then something comes along and all of a sudden the whole day, and everything else after it, just seem broken? Yeah, this was like that.

Slept in late for the first time in a week, which was nice. It was really really really windy out today and my window was rattling, so that was irritating, but at least that means that it isn't hot. Got to the cafeteria and the donburi counter was out of service so I got some nice chicken tonkatsu no tamago toji, which is always good. And I decided to eat at the window, because I keep forgetting that the view from where I live is beautiful and I need to learn to appreciate it a bit more. I think I'm starting to do crap like that because I'm consciously aware of how close I am to coming home. Half the time it's a feeling of anxious joy, and the other half it's regret for not having time to do more.

Another thing in my mind is making sure my money doesn't burn out. I'm trying to cook for myself more to save money on food, and I decided to see if the internet in the lobby is fast enough to play games so I don't need to go downtown anymore. It is, actually, at certain intervals. Early in the day when everyone is in class it's at a good speed, and then again late at night when everyone's going to sleep. I was out there a bit earlier today, and I don't think I'm ever doing that again.

There are professors on campus that use the fact that it's international as a means of making their students do tons of research work by asking random students questions. I don't mind this, if I'm doing something that my attention can be taken off of, or if I'm just eating or walking around or something. But if you come up to me while I'm playing an online game, fast paced with guns ablaze, with my headphones on in addition to that, and you approach me from behind so you can see all of this occuring beforehand, and you interrupt me to do a math problem because you heard that Americans can't do math, at the very least have the common decency to present it in the form of a question instead of stating your facts and then tossing the paper on my keyboard. And if you do do it that way, don't be surprised if I pick up the closest object and shank you as hard as my spindly little girl strength will let me.

And if you don't have the language skills to perform the simple task of asking a favor, then please just leave me the hell alone.

Christ.

Tickets to Osaka will be bought tomorrow for my trip to Kyoto on the cheap. Arrangements have been worked out with Jason, and he is fretting like my grandmother over my sleeping arrangements and travel costs. Overall this trip should be much cheaper than last time on multiple accords. First being that I'm not staying in a hostel for more than a day (I wanna go back to the one in Osaka for a night while I'm in the area). Second, I'm not going to Tokyo this time, so that's an automatic 80 dollar ticket deducted from the price. Third, I bought a CRAPLOAD of junk last time, and I have an emulator for my DS now so I don't need to buy any games anymore either, so unless I see something that I really REALLY need to have, I shouldn't be buying all that much this time around. So most of the costs will go toward travel and food, and overall the trip should be nice and cheap. Just the way I like it.