4 of 7 gods

I had a pretty low key weekend. Spent all of Saturday in bed sleeping and recovering from the hang over from hell. Woke up around 5pm to find the house deserted, so was looking forward to hanging out with Brad, but he had other ideas. I watched Broken Flowers at home instead and planned on catching up with FFXII, but in the end sat around surfing the web feeling completely bored and kinda lonely. Sunday was spent wandering around the city with no purpose really. I spent an hour or two in the studio playing the drums, which made me feel better. I found two syringes in the hallway of the building, so called security and had them organise to get rid of them. Thank you heroin addicts!

I planned to go see my parents on Sunday afternoon too, but that didn't happen. I eventually came home and spent most of last night in my room. I didn't do any specific Japanese study last night, but I did attempt to translate a bunch of questions from English to Japanese - not sure how well I went though. Then late last night, I spoke to Chie in Nara via Skype video - which was cool. I haven't spoken to her for 6 months, so it was good to catch up again. I'll tell you one thing: just when you think your Japanese is starting to get somewhere, you have a conversation and your mind goes blank, or you blurt out stupid stuff, and your confidence goes back down several notches. We talked about maybe doing Japanese / English lessons via Skype - I'll see how that goes.

So right now, I am in my room where I seem to be spending 90% of my time these days - listening to to Cut Copy while 4 of the 7 gods of Japan stare at me from below my monitor. I just completed an assignment on sound design in games. I am really enjoying this subject - it's something I know a lot about, and it's easy for me to write on. Now I should probably devote the same time to my other subjects.

I would give just about anything to not have to go to work tomorrow.. That's a bad sign, eh?