Tao of McKay

I don't usually lj-cut spoilers. Well, that's mainly because nobody usually cares and the fact that I don't really spoil all that much either in this journal. That also the fact that usually the stuff I talk about have already been out there for a while and most people would have already known about it already. But since this is a special case and because I really adore this episode so much, I think I need to cut it. I mean Tao of McKay is incredible. So if there are SGA fans on my flist (who knows, there might be a couple) who haven't seen it yet, they really should see it without being spoiled about everything.

( Spoilers, just in case. )

Okay, a little meme that I saw someone doing... I thought it was cute so I thought I would do it too... It's cut for being a bit lengthy...

( Year in Review Meme )

Okay, back to studying. I'm getting kinda sleep so I don't think I can stay up for too much longer (hopefully I'll last an hour or two more). Tomorrow is the last day of classes(!!!) and I'm mixed about it. I don't want to go to Genetics or Physics but I will end up going. Comparative Politics has been cancelled so yay for that -- more Japanese studying time. I do have my Japanese final tomorrow so that kinda sucks since I know I can't get anything right in that class anymore. It's stopped making sense to me so we'll see how I do. I kinda need to pass that with a high grade because I fucked myself over with the kanji today... :\ But that was partly due to the fact that I had a Genetics exam on Monday so... Yeah.

But after that, our entire class is going to meet up for dinner! ^^ Social event with classmates -- very cool. It shouldn't make me so excited but we're a small class of only seven people and we've gotten to the point where we all hate Japanese and we've bonded over that. Oh, and we hate the professors as well. We did course evaluations on Monday and they were brutal. We stayed and wrote these paragraphs. Everyone's was like five inches long of text and considering most of the time we write nothing or a sentence, that's a lot. That just shows you how much we hate that class. We left that class dissing the professors. I think dinner will just be a venting, hatefest and I just can't wait. I think we've all built up a lot of hostility towards Japanese now. Either way, it'll be cool to just talk about stuff in a nonclassroom setting. ^^

Okay back to studying. Must study. Must pass Japanese somehow and get to Intermediate 2...

The exam

It wasn't good. It wasn't good at all! I am so distraught over this that I don't know what to do. I didn't know the vocabulary. I fucked up on my verbs. I conjugated my "you," "sou," "rashi" wrong. The more I think about it, the more I think about what I did wrong and the more I identify how much I did wrong. I try to tell myself to put it aside, to not think about it and to focus on other stuff but I just can't seem to get my mind off it. Hopefully everyone else did craptastically like me and there is a huge curve and I can somehow manage a B in that class. I really don't want a B but the way it's going, I think I'll be lucky for it. And I studied for it too! I think I studied way too much for things that I shouldn't have. Instead of focusing on chapters 1-3, I should have just studied the vocabulary for chapter four since that's where it really was all about. Damn it. I hate this.

But the dinner after the exam was good! Trang-san and Heiman-san couldn't make it so it was only the four of us... Um, let me think. Trang-san's name is Laura and Heiman's name is Zach, I think... :\ We always call everyone by their last names so that's really all I know them as.

We met up at Starbucks and went to Menkui-tei over 3rd Avenue and...fifth? Well, it's just off of Saint Mark's and it's like a ramen type of restaurant. Kondo-san (Jason), told us that it's what the Japanese people would consider "chuka." I had the Menkui Ramen that was roast pork, scallions and Bamboo shoots and it was pretty good. A little heavy on the salt but it was not bad at all. I think I might shoot over there for lunch or something along those lines later. Me and Lin-san (Sherry, first time I've ever met anyone named Sherry spelled the same way as me) shared an order of gyoza, of which I'm still tasting in my mouth. It was made with chives so it's strongly flavored but they were pretty good. And since I positively adore chives, I totally loved it.

We talked about hating Japanese, of being wrong in Japanese, of how much we hated the teachers... We talked about our lives, our likes, about music and J-dramas and how much I love guys and I enlightened them about the different types of Johnny groups. It was fun and I wish we were all going to be in the same section next semester but we aren't... :( Jason, Sherry and I are all in the same section -- 11 to 12:15 Mondays through Thursday... Erika is in the earlier section and Quiones-san (Norma) is dropping the course because she hates Japanese now. :\ It'll be sad but Sherry and Jason are cool so it should be okay. It'll be weird being in a large class though after being in the "small" section the last two semesters. We had five people last semester and this semester, seven. It was cosy.

Anyway, I do want to go there again. Apparently they have this special where you can get a small curry rice for an additional $3 and that would be pretty cool I think. And I want to try their deep-fried octopus. No one wanted to share it so I decided against getting it.

And speaking of curry, I made some beef curry last night and am desperately fighting myself not to eat it. I'm kinda hungry, kinda not, but I ate like seven hours ago because we met up around four-ish for that very early dinner... :\ I don't know. I may decide to toss some noodles in some boiling water and heat up some curry later on.

I really need to study for Physics... I need to go into campus to get stuff printed off, need to study for Politics... Genetics would be easy since it's based off our old exams and I have all the answers but Physics need time and I need time to study it. And Politics will not be easy. :\

Okay, all this talking of food has got me hungry now... Maybe I will make something to eat...