Cruel Procedures

The Japanese midterms finished up today. I will never understand why speaking for a speaking test is suddenly more difficult than going downtown and speaking with people. I guess it's just the atmosphere, but really, it's annoying that it's the case. The listening test apparently started 10 minutes earlier than I thought (which was 10 minutes earlier than class starts) so I didn't realize this until about the time class started and I walked in, noticed things were going on, and then checked my testing sheet. Thankfully the teacher had just been talking about procedure and not actually administering the test, so the fish sandwich I hastily choked down could rest easily knowing that it didn't cost me a grade.

The tests went pretty well I think, or better than I'd hoped at least. Everybody in the class was freaking out a bit, and you could tell by us all describing how catatonic we would be when our turn came about. I'm not sure if anybody else followed through with their stories but me, but if I'm anything I'm truthful. One of the questions on the speaking test was "At what times do you become nervous?" and
I answered with "Now".

I celebrated by buying my ferry ticket (finally!) and then going downtown. The ferry ticket is from Tuesday night until Tuesday Morning. Meaning I leave Tuesday night and arrive in Kansai Wednesday morning, and leave Monday night and arrive Tuesday morning. Yes, I'm skipping Monday classes, and no, I very do not care. I'm bitter about having a Tuesday exam still, so I'm taking a personal day.

Downtown I bought some more random series to look into: Eatman, Zetman, and Ubelblatt. I've heard of the first two before but never read, and the third one has pretty art and I judge plenty of books by their covers. I'm so excited to be starting so many series that I'll never be able to keep up with when I return to the states. Seems like a great movie, really.

I also went to CoCo Curry house for the first time in forever. I forgot how good non-campus curry was, as I haven't had any since I went to Osaka. Oh man. SO good. The first bite was pure heaven. I don't know why I don't eat there more often. Curry costs about the same as ramen, and both are less than McDonald's. I'm some kind of crazy fool.

I also picked up more in this capsule toy series I've been collecting. Hunting trophy figures. I'm not really into hunting, but these are really cool high detail animal mount figures and I just sorta like them. Except today I found out that there are rare ones that are just the skulls of the animals. Kinda.... creepy.

Tomorrow I go to Yufuin! Probably by myself. Out of everyone I asked, only three people were interested, and all of them have cancelled, or "blocked" as it's come to be called here. Which sucks so hard. But I really want to go, so I'm going. I'll take pictures, and hopefully I can get someone to come along last minute. But if not poo on them, it's awesome Roshi time.

Also have plans to go to church on Sunday. I don't know if anyone is aware of this, but I'm technically Roman Catholic, and at the very best generally Christian, but I don't do much about it. For some reason I have a hankerin' to go to church, which is weird cause I haven't been in 3 years. Maybe I'm going to die soon? Who knows. But it should be an experience.

The church. Not the dying.