"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle.

That quote's on at least two walls at my school. I thought of it when I realized I'm starting to get into a habit of posting when I don't really feel tired but know I should be sleeping. Right now I'm listening to the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue soundtrack off of youtube and trying to find something to keep me from being bored. I suppose being bored would lead me to sleep though, maybe I should try less hard.

I went out of my way today to buy a book. It's called "An Innovative Approach to Speaking and Reading Japanese: Japanese Step by Step" by Gene Nishi. I've got about 15 pages into it so far, and I feel like I've already learned a lot about the language. My goal is to practice kana tomorrow when I have a huge two hour gap between my 3rd and 4th class. I figure if I never get started I'll never learn anything. I feel every little bit helps. Although, I'm already wishing I had a way to listen to how words are pronounced. Particularly ame. Which can mean two things depending on the pitch of the 'a' or 'me'. Low to high means candy, but high to low means rain. I know I've heard the word Ame (rather than aME) in anime a whole lot before, but I'm having a hard time remembering exactly how it is, and then trying to think of how it could sound as aME is difficult. Furthers my thinking that there really is no way around trying to get into a class.

I have a history test today. In 6 hours and 45 minutes, actually. I feel like I can do pretty well on it. But I never get enough sleep on school days, and too much on off days. I like history. I like listening to all the stories. They're interesting. I'm just terrible at remembering specifics. I also have a tendency to remember relatively useless information. Like that France was known as Gaul to Romans. This class is American History though, which I have more or less taken before in high school though, so hopefully that works in my favor. We'll see how much I remember. We've already glanced over a ton of things that I remember taking days on in class then. I forget if that was a yearlong course or not...

One last note. I changed the title of the blog from LOST FOREVER to Wasuremono a bit ago. I'm sure you noticed by now, or at least that it was changed. Wasuremono is Japanese for "something forgotten", which I find to be a far more interesting and meaningful title, particularly since it refers to things (ie objects) being forgotten.

Maybe I can sleep now that I've been awake for 13 and a half hours...

Adion is currently listening to: When the Rain Comes [5:14]

I can't sleep. I keep randomly thinking of Japanese phrases that are unimportant, like... sumimasen. And the lyrics to FLOW - WORLD END. And then when I'm trying to think of nothing so that I can hopefully fall asleep, something occurs to me and I think about that and forget I'm trying to sleep, only to catch myself again.

My most recent thought pattern is wondering how cool it would be to work in one place just long enough to buy a plane ticket to someplace else and maybe live for a month. So basically. Work here long enough to afford a ticket to Japan and live for a month off of that money. Between now and the trip I'd spend time learning the language. Then, when I got to Japan the goal would be to pick a new country, work in Japan long enough to make enough money to get a plane ticket to that country, and between entering Japan and leaving it, learning that country's language.

Hectic. But I'd be pretty proud of myself I think. The question is how interested am I in learning other languages? I'm pretty sure I want to learn Japanese anyway, not really part of the question. But other languages... I think I'm good with 2 and a half, for the German that I still remember, English, and soon enough Japanese.

God. Time is a bitch.

Adion is currently listening to: FLOW - WORLD END [3:48]

Well. I've been trying to track down a solution to my cars problem for a couple days now... I had the transmission flushed about 6 weeks ago now and it's been having issues since. The weird thing is there is a chance the problem it's having isn't really even related to the transmission at all. I don't know. It might have something to do with airflow motors, or maybe it has something to do with the transmission fluid they used when it was flushed... I have no idea. I wish I knew more about cars.

Going downtown to a Sox game today. Should be good times. Don't care much for the sport as a whole but that's okay 'cause I'm going to hang out with friends.

Been trying to catch up on my backlog of anime I've downloaded but not watched. Kinda upset that Anime-Planet isn't as good as it used to be yet. It's much more difficult to use right now. I think it's only being coded by one guy though so I guess it's bound to take some time. I forgot how much I liked Code Geass.

Adion is currently listening to: Deftones - Street Carp [3:41]

I suppose I should update more often. It's been a while. School started, I'm back home.

Classes are alright. 13 credit hours. Nothing too major, not much in the way of homework yet it seems. I need to get a job again so I can pay for gas and all that junk.

Last night I had a dream that I went out on a date with my first crush. Was interesting. I wonder how she's doing. Haven't talked to her in at least 4 years.

Need to change the oil on my car tomorrow.

Think I've mentioned this on my LJ, but plans are roughly moving forward on getting an apartment for maybe the beginning of 2009. The goal is to take a couple week vacation in Japan around Christmas in '09 as well. Which is another reason I need to get a job again. Interested in joining us Senpai?

This should be my last semester at community college, and I'll have an associates. Maybe I should look into taking Japanese classes at a 4 year school for the trip? That would be pretty amazing I think.

Exciting stuff. Wish I knew what the hell I wanted to do with my life.

Adion is currently listening to: stochastic - blistering thumbs and a broken heart [2:52]