1000 Kanji and Counting! Woot!

Today, I got to a little over 1000 kanji in RtK. Not to toot my own horn, but I feel pretty good about it. Now, that means at the rate I've been learning new kanji, I'm probably not going to finish by the end of the month (to do that, I would need to do around 150 some-odd kanji everyday plus reviews). I'm going to adjust my goal to finishing before the 20th of next month. That gives me about, well, a month to go through them all.

REAL New Years Resolutions

Hello, and Happy New Year to everyone. I wish each and every single one of you a blessed 2009.

Now, I've put together a few New Years resolutions that I will actually strive to fulfill. Yeah, I know, New Years Resolutions are "srs bzns," but yeah. Feel free to doubt me in making these reality:

• Start Running Again
For about three or four months last year, I ran almost every night. After summer came, it fell to the wayside since I was really bad at structuring my day when I wasn't forced to. Then, my physical state just went down hill, and now I'm back at square one. With the stress from school, I'm going to need this.

• Learn Japanese
This is probably the biggest goal on the list. Since I'm doing this on my own, this is going to be a real challenge. As a sub goal, I'm going to complete the book, Remembering the Kanji I, by the end of the month. That's a little over 2000 Kanji, or Chinese characters. I've already gone through 508, so it's a really good start. From then on, I'll just continue to review them while tackling other aspects of the language as well.

• Take a break from MUN, at least for a few months
Not really a goal, but with all the stress MUN has created for me has driven me crazy this entire school year thus far, I need a break from this for at least a month and a half. If I start again too soon, I'm going to burn myself out, especially if I try to pile Japanese over it too. Edit: Actually, I quit.

And, uh, that's it.

UCLA MUN 08: My Experience

I left for UCLA Model UN on Friday and came back on Sunday night. I have to say, it was a rather interesting experience.

• I roomed with three other girls, and I'd say 'twas a pretty good experience. They were nice people and everything. But next year, I'll need to get one of those blindfold things because I learned (again) that I cannot sleep with the lights on. Well, unless I'm really, really tired. Oh well. At least I wasn't in the room of five.

• As far as competition went, I did much better than last time. I can talk better and all, and I found a few more things I need to work on. I just don't like how even though I spent 15+ hours more on research, I only got 5 more points... I really need to work on efficiency. .__.;

• Saturday night in Westwood was fun. :O The dance was eh, but the stuff before that was fun.

Oh Look, The Election!

Here I come with another update on my status.

•School work's been taking less time. I must be getting used to the work load or I must've had a lot less projects back then. But...
• ...MUN's been a barrel of stress that's been taking up my time these days. I'm looking forward to it, but every conference takes forever for me to prepare for. All my work will pay off this weekend. I'm sure of it. :)
• Oh look, the O-man's president. Wasn't crazy about him or McCain, but I couldn't vote anyways, so the vote's at the mercy of my "superiors."

Busy as Heck

Wow, I have not touched this thing since school started again. A lot has been going on, and I haven't had the time/thought to/felt like posting anything here for a long time. So, here's a little update of a long time.

• I've had lots of school work that's been keeping me busy. I have just realized the ungodly amount of time I spend on my history homework every night I have an assignment. If I had one, I wouldn't be typing this thing up. Throw group projects from other classes every week or so, and there's very little time for me to mess around...

• ...Speaking of which, I should be working on stuff for school and MUN right now, but, well, I don't feel like it right now.

• The time I do have to mess around with, I tend to blow it off on TF2. If you also play, you can find me on Steam here.

~Shoyren

School Again

• Guess who got the Orange Box yesterday. Oh my gosh, it's so much awesome! <3 So far, I clocked about seven hours in Team Fortress, five of which just evaporated without me being aware of it. I just wish Half Life and Portals didn't crash on me or make me dizzy.

• And of course I got the games the Saturday before school starts.

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Brilliant, aren't I?

"Shook Me All Night Long"

I should be hit over the head by AC-DC for the lame pun, but oh well. A pretty big quake happened over here in sunny So Cal. Probably the biggest I felt since I can remember. Strangely, the phone lines are screwed up, but my internet seems to be working fine. :/ Not that I'm complaining.