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feeling: relieved
listening to: Olympic figure skating music on TV
Isn't it amazing how sometimes, clouds DO have silver linings?
Yeah, I didn't believe it either. :P But yesterday, when I was lying in bed trying to get to sleep after what I had first called a rough day (mainly due to some depression after hearing about Kevin Smith *sigh*), I realized that some things had actually conspired for me. Not against me. Like, ok... first silver lining: Japanese class. I did embarrass myself more than anything, but the bright spot was, my favorite teacher, Kashiwagi-sensei, taught the class. She's the adorable one. ~_^ And I don't think she's ever taught my section on a Monday... not this quarter anyway. She usually takes Thursdays or Fridays. (My Japanese class has I think 6 teachers by the way... a lecturer and 4 that rotate between teaching recitation sections by the day... so we have a different one all but once a week... nifty system.) So her teaching was unexpected and cool. Second bright spot - we watched Aliens in English class instead of actually doing work or having discussions or other such crap. Always good. Third bright spot: Mirror Lake Cafe was serving chicken and dumplings. Mmmmm. *drool* Fourth bright spot, another silver lining: CVS didn't have the water for Mitsu, which meant I didn't get to clean his vase out... but it also meant an extra hour or so of free time for me. Got some work done in that time. Fifth bright spot: got dinner a little early so I could take advantage of having the room to myself for a full 2 1/2 hours. What did I do during that time? What I always do to cheer up: watched Utena. ^_^ And it worked. I was smiling by the time I finished the tape. Anyway, sixth bright spot: I think I finally took care of the virus that's been haunting my software for a couple months now. It'll probably be back eventually, but it left me alone long enough to do my English paper. And seventh bright spot: I got half of that paper done before going to bed last night. All in all, turned out to be a decent day... my guess is someone upstairs knew I was all down about Kevin and threw in a few little good things to brighten my day a little at a time. It worked. Thanks, Dude Upstairs. ^^
Today worked out pretty much the same way. I think I slept off some of my depression about Kevin, but not all of it... I won't go into why, cause it'd take too long to explain. Anywho, yeah... the best part of today was probably the fact that I finished my English paper around 10 p.m. And everything else I have due tomorrow is done. Also found out today that I got a perfect score on my linguistics midterm, and that it turns out I'll only have to schedule one ling. experiment/talk instead of two (a class requirement... attend 2 talks/discussions or participate in 2 experiments, or one of each) because we're gonna go to a talk as a class later on. One down. And as I think I mentioned earlier, I'm not gonna bother with meeting my adviser for a while. I already scheduled, so I don't see any reason to hurry and declare a major.
Women's figure skating started tonight, which is cool. My favorite Olympic event, I do believe... the one that got me interested in the Olympics in the first place back in 1992. Ten years ago... wow. Yeah... my obsession began with the women's gold medalist that year, Kristi Yamaguchi, and sorta stuck with me. I still say Nancy Kerrigan should've won in Lilehammer. Freak Oksana Baiul. -_- And Michelle Kwan should've beaten Tara Lipinski in Nagano... that scrawny little gawky runt. Well, it looks like Michelle might win this year... she's in first place so far after the big contenders of the short program. She better win. She's had that chunk o'gold coming to her for years now. And Sasha Cohen needs to get the silver. She is GOOD. She was the first skater I saw tonight, and it was the first time I've seen her... daaaang, was I impressed. Good, good, good. But just seems to lack Michelle Kwan's grace, or something cheesy-yet-important like that. I'm not sure.
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 2/19/2002 11:07:00 PM
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