One week

Instead of rambling on about some silly thought that has passed through my weary head, I think I shall simply do a little personal update of sorts.

The weekend finally rolls around. Mildly painful week, with lots of classes, buying of lots of stuff and very little sleep. It almost seems impossible that I, of all persons, would end up sitting in on random classes just to poke around a bit. Of course, I seem to have settled on the safest choices in the end. Until a little distraction popped up. I looked through my college catalog a couple of days back and listed out the classes I would like to at least try while I'm sitting in a university with decent social sciences departments. Turns out that if I want these classes, it looks like I'll be here for 5 years instead of 3. Very sad. Finally crashed into a quarter life crisis of sorts, the bit where I actually wonder seriously whether the direction I've chosen and have been following for the past 15 years or so is what I really want to do. So I'm gonna hopscotch around a couple more interesting classes next week, might end up auditing a few or something.

On a lighter note, the weekend is here! Ok, so that note has been played before, but a little more zest can't hurt. Ok, so finally hit the Sears Tower and did a little touristy thing while I'm in Chicago. I think I've been forgetting that I'm here partly as a tourist as well. I'm supposed to be out experiencing stuff, not cooped up studying or talking to students all the time. Of course, it seems that I still end up talking to students, but it's all good. I had better make this quarter more interesting, or I will be somewhat upset. So it's better classes and more fun stuff. Lucky things seem to be working out in that direction. Found an Italian restaurant with excellent appetisers, but unimpressive pasta. Can't seem to recall the name, but it claims to be the oldest one in Chicago. Italian Village or something like that. Well, I'm not sure I would want to go back anyway, considering the seriously unremarkable entrees. Ah well. Oh, and more karaoke, which wasn't so great this time cos the throat was a bit painful, and it hurt a bit to sing, which precluded me from doing too much torture of the others this time round.

Interesting selection of films at the doc this quarter, lots of anime, even some hentai, which is an odd sort of thing to be showing in a school cinema, but hey, what do I care? Watched Ghost in the Shell on a big screen for the first time, and it was cool. Lots of people seemed hung up on the voice acting and weren't focused on the plot devices and references though. Laughter is almost disrespectful, but I guess it's their problem.

Hauled a ton of vcds and a bunch of movies and stuff on my computer back from home this break. Unfortunately this seems to have left me gasping for time to watch everything, which is impossible. Let's see, 4 anime series, a good half dozen movies or so, oh yes, and a 40 episode drama serial. At least the drama is good stuff, though I don't know when I'm going to be able to finish it, considering I've plowed through a grand total of 8 episodes in one fairly obsessive week with very little work.

Looks good enough for me, gotta wake up sort of early tomorrow, so I figure a little nap is in order now.