2009-08-01

The Curse that is Summer

So I mentioned before, I have enough time to blog, and blog daily.
But summer also comes with one of those "too much time" curses, where you can just put everything off, and keep putting it off, until you... feel like doing it, which pretty much never comes - there's a reason you put it off in the first place.
So I have this paper to write over the summer, right?
4000 words max. Fishing for about 3500 words or more ideally.
The topic is... elasticity of demand for textbooks in Japan. How fun and exciting.
I picked it because... I was looking at chemistry textbooks to purchase and had already decided I was going to do something related to economics. Bad, bad idea. I think it's going to turn into more of an analysis of the market structure.
I have about two weeks to write it now because i've put it off so much.
I've done a little research, but I need to figure out a way to not site wikipedia for where I got my textbook companies from. Since everything is pretty much in Japanese, it makes life so much harder.
I picked it BECAUSE it was Japanese, but ehhh, I'm almost regretting it now.

In other news, my lust for Korean is getting no weaker. Especially after adding those blogs. At least if I learn it now though I'll be learning it off of Japanese. So following a language laddering kind of idea. 한글 just looks too pretty to pass up. ... so did Tibetan a while ago. And the list grows longer. I'll probalby leave off Tagalog and Bahasa Malay or whatever it is until a long while off, just because they use roman letters. Everything is cooler when I have to learn a new writing system. It doesn't help that I found a way to stream Korean television. It's very nice quality streaming too. It's not a huge variety of channels, but it has the main ones. The ones to watch dramas on... Oh Korean dramas. I was watching a channel and super soap opera came on. It was soo soap opera-ie. I don't even know what they were saying, but I could just tell. It was the epitome of soap operas. Koreans are good at those.

On the other front, Japanese. I haven't been neglecting it. Share makes sure of that. I'm so addicted to share. Like I was when I first started using torrents. It just didn't feel right not to be downloading something xD; So I discovered my new query word, "日本語吹替" aka Japanese dub. While I love my Japanese dramas, I just haven't been into them lately. So instead I'm watching American dramas which I wouldnever watch in English, in Japanese. Well actually I watched Heroes in English and I would watch House if I happened to pass by. But now i'm watching Gossip Girl, definately not something I would pick out normally. There's also quite a few Stargates, but ehh, not into that. Right now I have the first episode of season 3 of Heroes playing in the background. I never watched all of Season 3, so might as well watch it in Japanese. Also, I found an audio version of the first harry potter book in Japanese. So that'll go really well with my text version I found. I'll have to cut it into chunks, but it'll be fun. Then I'll have read it in three languages! Too bad I can't find more Bradbury in all three and with audio. Oh well.
I'm not further than I was a few days ago in Puchimon. But it's alright. I can go at my own pace.
And Chapter 252 of Reborn! So intennsee.

And that's it for me.

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