Catching up

OK, so the last three weeks of school were insane. Here's a summary of where I've been since last time:

I can sum up my final three weeks as a junior in three words: PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, and EXAMS. I had a presentation each in ethnomusicology and in Inner Asia; exams in ethnomusicology, culture and personality, Japanese, and international relations; and ungodly huge papers in culture and personality and in international relations (10-12 pages, anybody?!). One or two end-of-year social things occurred as well, but the main thing was the crazy schoolwork. As you can see, though, I survived and made it out of spring '10 with six A's and a B+. My last night in Cleveland, my future roomie Caleb and I went with our future suitemate J.D. to Tako Yaki, a Japanese restaurant in town, and met some of J.D.'s family. I'd met his bro before, but not his mom or grandma yet. Very nice people. And the food was awesome! I told the guy at the front desk "Thank you very much! The food was delicious!" in my newly learned Japanese (どうぼありがとうござ います. おいしいでした. in hiragana), to which he replied with a bow.

After my folks picked me up and I went home, I chilled for the most part until the end of the week, when I resumed work at Oaklawn in Middletown (for those who don't know, it's a rehab/extended care place where I work in the kitchen). So far I've worked six days a week with mostly shorter part time shifts, though the number of 8-hour shifts is increasing. Granted, I'm glad for the money, but I'd rather work fewer days full time than more days part time, lol. It's fun though. Lots of new people now.

I've started replaying Fallout 3 now, putting a little more emphasis on stealth this time around. Sneak Attack Criticals can be oh so helpful, ya know. Hopefully I'll have it beaten again by the time school resumes in the fall.

I now have a paltry two weeks and five days until I leave for my cross-cultural trip to Chile! Just need to get my liability and power of attorney forms faxed in. This'll be my first time traveling out of the country, and I'm really looking forward to it. ¡Y aprenderé mas español!

I was going to get a Star Wars RPG going this summer with some church pals of mine, but thanks to college I didn't have time to develop the campaign as much as I wanted. Won't be able to do it this summer, but perhaps it'll be a Lee campaign in the fall. I'll be working on it bit by bit over this break and hopefully have something together by then.

And last, but certainly not least... HUGHES HALL WAS DEMOLISHED THIS WEEKEND!

So that's pretty much what I've been up to. More stuff in a different topic in the next post!