briefly checking in

[solarbird]

Mushrooms and Leaves
For the curious, it finally got above freezing last Thursday, and most of the snow had melted by Friday afternoon.

Assorted milage catchup (probably short): 10.7
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1479.3
Miles out of Rivendell: 1022.3
Miles out of Lothlórien: 567.3
Miles past Rauros Falls: 149.4
Miles to Isengard: 317.3

Japanese this quarter is so far much more difficult than last quarter, mostly because it's moving much faster and I'm not finding it easy to catch up. Thursday was a particularly bad day; I had times in class when I had no idea whatsoever what was going on. I'll be keeping a close eye on the drop date this quarter, I'm afraid. But I'm still very good at guessing; I guessed right... five out of six times, I think, on the last quiz, which turned a potential 70 into a 95. Now, if only I could do that with the lotto. ^_^

Tomorrow I want to go downtown with spazzkat to this nice tea place that I've been by briefly but not actually in, and also to stop at a new store in Westlake which my Japanese tutor recommended. But I'll have to get my lab notes done first, in the morning, and also get Zoe's cage cleaned up, and some other crap like that, mostly because I don't want to be up late working on lab homework. (The lab schedule this quarter, despite meeting at the same times as last quarter, is very annoying. To wit: Gir.)