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Nichi-Bei Club 2008-2009

Monday, September 8th, 2008

According to Ishibashi-sensei on Monday, the first meeting for the fall semester of Nichi-Bei Club will be held in room 3070 (end of the hall) in BAL on Friday, September 11, 2008 at 2:00 pm.

This will be my first semester during which I have time to participate in Nichi-Bei, and from what I understand there are lots of interested Japanese exchange students and first year Japanese language students. Lets have a good year, and study Japanese together! ????????????????????????

My MacBook is already dirty…

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

…from HARD CORE STUDYING! WOOOOOO! Yeah, right… :)

(Actually if you’re looking for a good way to clean your MacBook, take a white staedtler, “Magic Rub”, or any brand vinyl eraser to it, and just rub away. Works really well all over the MacBook, even on the trackpad!)

Here’s a shot of Webb from today. Have you joined any clubs yet?

Today in ceramics we started our first wheel-thrown project. It’s kinda fun, since I’ve never done it before. My piece slid right off after I got it into a very nice cylinder, and I had to re-center it and basically form it all over again. That was kind of a pain, but the wheel is neat because it acts like a vertical lathe like you would use for wood carving. Gets pretty messy and slimy though, luckily this cat is an APRONCAT! Hah, inside joke there.

Here’s a small rant that most of you will disagree with:

I hate when class gets let out early! Arrrrg! Especially when it’s a studio class and you end up with two hours to burn. I popped into my digital art class at 11, and we were let out by 11:30! My next class isn’t even until 3pm! And even then I’m out at 4:15, and the National Art Educators Association meeting isn’t until 7:30! Maybe I’ll head to the Pottery Art Studio store on Kellam and buy some glazes and some less-rough clay…

I could pay for my parking pass, but my tags are expired and I plan to replace them, so I don’t want to have to go back to the parking office to change what my license plates are. Besides, the ladies that work in that office are, sorry, totally anal cranky whiny bitches. Now, some of you may call this a “pot and kettle” situation, but honestly…every single time I’ve gone into that office, I’ve come out pissed. It’s like Wal-Mart; you go in, knowing what you need, estimate about how long it will take to walk to that section, get it, and pay for it, but you end up wasting much longer than you anticipated and come out all frazzled because everyone in there treats you like dirt, from the kid ramming a cart into your knee to the cashier who’s too busy on her cellphone to ring up your bananas.</endrant>

(To all of my former English teachers, I’m very sorry for that run-on sentence.)

Well I feel stuffed for not bringing my DS today, so I guess I’m going to go find something to occupy my time. I also hear Ishibashi-sensei in her office and I should scram before she finds me and talks to me without my Japanese brain loaded. If you see me wandering around, feel free to point me in the direction of something cool.

Cheers,
Jini