White Night

I had almost forgotten that a new Kimeru single was about to be released! I preordered like ages ago so it's slipped my mind completely but I was listening to Timeless today and then it hit me that didn't code_k mention it a couple days ago? And it's been a couple of days so I thought I would go and see much much longer I had until it was released. Turns out it releases tomorrow!

So I poked around the CDJapan website a bit and came across samples from this newest single. Starry Heavens I had already heard a clip of already and I already knew I was into the song. And listening to it again did not dim my first impression on it. But then I found the White Night clip, something I had missed when I first went through the Nippon Crown website (though why I missed it is now perplexing me...) and I went O.O!!! When I first heard it. The beginning is just so...different! It's something that I haven't heard from Kimeru before! It's a bit different than the clip on Nippon Crown (the chorus I presume and in that one you can clearly hear the Christmas-y theme that it has) and while you can hear it a bit in the clip on CDJapan, it's mainly of the beginning and it's absolutely beautiful! Before I was only a little bit excited to get a new Kimeru CD but now I can't wait for it! I want that song! It just sounds amazing. For a moment there while I was listening to it, I wondered if it was even Kimeru but I've listened to Kimeru for years now and have obsessed over him for years now -- I doubt I'm going to mistake his voice. I mean the clip itself is a little grainy, but I hear Kimeru-bits to it so I'm pretty certain it's him. There's just some sounds that are uniquely Kimeru, you know? Anyway, I'm all happy now because of it. ^^

And since there was that little PV of Starry Heavens that I hadn't seen before either (that I remember hearing about at least -- but I blame not seeing it before now on my blackhole month of finals), I went and watched that as well. I might as well since I was already there, it's 1 AM and I'm procrastinating like hell -- I should really study for my Japanese test but... I am studying. Really I am. There's just stuff that I really don't want to touch like the word "ireru." For some reason, it's being used as "to turn on" but we know that word to mean "to insert/to put in/to include" and verb we normally use for "to turn on" is"tsukeru" so I'm confused. And it really doesn't help that we're doing transitive/intransitive right now. :\ Oh well, I'll figure it out I guess. Hopefully before 2 AM...

Anyway, the clip of the Starry Heavens PV (my last act of procrastination for the night). It has a lot of water in it. But I was happy to see people other than Kimeru. That's become a big thing with me. Even though I love Kimeru, I've always wished his PVs were less Kimeru-centric if that makes any sense. There's just so much someone can take of Kimeru swaying around and a great lover of a good story, I like music videos to convey a story which doesn't really work if you're just moving around in one place in a neat location. I think that's why I really loved the OVERLAP PV (which is still my favorite PV of Kimeru's) since he moves around, he goes places, he changes location. It's a somewhat of an abstract story but I have a fondness for stuff like that so it was up my alley. Anyway, I know I definitely like the song (still very Kimeru-esque with a different sort of feel to it) from what I've heard thus far and I know I'm going to adore White Night so I think I'm going to be anxiously watching my mailbox this week (hoping against hope I get it by Saturday but it'll most likely be Monday or Tuesday).

And now I guess I have to study. :\

edit x1: And I just realized that the regular version of the single of Starry Heavens has a live version of COLOR on it... I love COLOR! A lot! It was my favorite song off of Glorious! This makes me kinda sad. Still, even if I had known, there was no way I would have bought it just for the one track, no matter how much I might want to. But it is a bit sad that I won't get to hear it... Oh well, at least I get the Starry Heavens PV, right? As far as I'm concerned, it seems like a good tradeoff.

edit x2: Okay, I lied. Not my last bit of procrastination. But how could I resist watching a video about a sushi callenge in NYC? Really, how could I? Eating 52 pieces of sushi in 20 minutes and if so, gets them all for free. I would never be able to do it but I would like to try someday...

And now I really want to go to Yummy Village and get some sushi. Or just get sushi in general. Methinks sushi for tomorrow's lunch...

Registration

I'm so depressed now... The one class that I was looking forward to taking closed before I could register. :( Now instead of Gene Structure and Function, I'm doing Intro to Ecology. I don't really even care about ecology! But I needed some sort of bio elective and I really didn't want to do Vertebrate Anatomy. :(

And I'm going to do Economic Principles. I don't know why but I was advised that to keep my options open, I should do something along those lines... So now I have an 8 AM class. JOY. Not only that, but my Physics lab and recitations are from 5:00 PM to 6:50 PM. And that Ecology course? At least it's once a week but it's 5:00-7:30. That's going to be interesting... I'm very tempted to work four days a week and then have Fridays to myself... But if I do that, switch working on Fridays to Mondays, then I'll have to change my recitation to be on Friday instead... I really don't want to have a class that should not miss on a Friday... Not only that, if I don't do that, then there'll be this big gap on Mondays from 12:15 to 3:30. I could work during that time but that would only be like an hour and a half if you take traveling... I could studying during that gaps but... I don't know... I had it all thought out but now... :\

I'm going to keep on trying to get into that course anyway. There's no waitlist but if I get in, everything else can be dropped and I can have my schedule the way I wanted it to be.

Wow, with the way it is now, I'm going to be working 17 hours a week. O.O I should take Wednesdays off too or something... That's a lot to be working... :\ I can always sleep for the 3.75 hours in between Japanese and my Ecology class... See, with Gene Structure, I would have not have work anyway because it's from 2:00-4:45 (so I could have taken Ecology along with had I wanted).

I'm not happy about this schedule at all. Friday classes. 8 AM classes (even more unhappy about). There's another section of Economics but it conflicts with Japanese.

Wait, I have an idea. I think I'm going to take Economic Principles II (P) instead of I since you don't have to take them together. I can just switch recitations and I won't have class on TR until 11:00. That sounds good. So I work three days a week for a total of 13.25 hours a week which is about how much work now anyway. This sounds good. I'm more happier with this I think...