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Just now, while studying in the common room, my flatmate the astrophysicist in-training walked in to brew a mug of coffee.

Cheerful worried chit-chat was cheerful and worried (mofo exams start on Monday ahahaha) and I showed her the stuff I was working on.

Doing Japanese grammar at 1 ay emm, I'm so hardcore.

Anyways, while she was leaving, she said she's sure that learning Japanese is as hard as quantum mechanics. I don't think I've ever felt so validated as I did when she said that solemnly.

Because I really really wanted to do cosmology/astrophysics, but my results weren't good enough. And her studying that somehow ties in with me studying what I am studying. Because she thinks I'm smart doing what I do ;~; whereas my general approach is that I do the things I do because I'm not smart enough.

Questionable self-worth at almost 2 am, after several hours of solid studying, but I somehow feel genuinely re-heartened.

Rrrrr. Goodnight everyone <3
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Hey, everyone. It's been a long absence (over a month!) because once again I got convinced that my brain was a lot smarter than I was. A lot of desperately, desperately brilliant things happened as well as some pretty crap things and it'd suck if I didn't write it down. Don't want to forget all of it, ten years from now. Or twenty, even. It's almost-mid-December, and I'm recapping from November. Er. November 3rd onwards, since I've covered Liverpool.


Liverpooooool <3

I am also currently deeply involved in a one-sided unrequited love with Iron Chef. A challenger won today. I am chilling out under the table to deal with the loss. Lies. I am chilling out under the table because working on the table at night means that I'm using the ceiling light. Direct contact with the ceiling light leaves me distinctly unhappy. Don't know why \o/
Quite a lot of pictures. Hello, November, how did you do? :) )

A couple of quick notes.

- I didn't finish my NaNoWriMo. Didn't even come close. Partly, I think I was a little busy in November. Mostly, though. The story just didn't seem to want to be written. Sorry especially to sekitx2 ;~; You gave me a gorgey e-gift.

I replied with PAIN.

I didn't even wish you a happy birthday ;~; I wasn't at home on the day, and forever afterward felt too ashamed to say anything. You're quite marvelous, so have as sincere a Happy Belated Birthday! as can be beget, almost mid-December.



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Cut my left hand up a bit of a treat from trying to open a bottle of rose syrup. It's a good thing I'm not left-handed.

It's a bad thing that tomorrow is laundry day. Why hallo thar, hot water and soap. Meet flesh-wound-san!

I have my final exams the week after the next, but cannot compel myself to worry. Which is just daft, because if I want to get the marks I want, I should be pulling all-nighters like my friends at the library.

No, no, instead I trawl the web for. Nothing, really, ah.

Let's hope for a more productive day soon.

And I had tiramisu today <3 My god I love it badly.

On Wednesday, lord professor Robert Winston came to give a lecture at my Uni for post-graduate students. By virtue of determination, I got myself into that lecture. This gentleman, you see, did a series of documentaries that were on air when I was a child.
When I grow up I will become you, hell yeah. )

Now. Yeah. TO STUDIES WOOT.

/loves Top Gear

I have been most lazy. Frick.
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F*** YEAH!

THE EXAMS THAT I SO TOTALLY SCREWED UP EARLY THIS YEAR? THOSE ONES? THE ONES THAT WOULD STOP ME FROM GOING TO JAPAN IF I DIDN'T DO WELL?

THOSE ONES?

The lowest I got was a 60%. I DON'T HAVE TO RETAKE ANYTHING.

*hip thrust of JOY*

*thrusts again*

I am unabashedly delighted. After a semester plagued by shit weather, terrible illness (of the ho-shit-coughing-up-blood variety), intense home-sickness and a complete disconnect from lectures, this is just about the best I could expect. Ah, no, this is most definitely better than I deserved <3

Second wind, dear ones, and I totally did just break into dance in my room when I read my results *scurries off to study*

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