I'm Back!

It has been a while hasn't it? First of all I would like to thank Vaso for finally figuring out how to use Dvorak with the Japanese IME in Windows. Now I can stop using QWERTY forever!!! With just a simple registry hack, you too can enjoy the wonders of it...

So anyway, today I woke up really early considering I didn't have any classes. My host mother and father were very surprised to see me stumble into the kitchen at 8 in the morn. I ate breakfast, grabbed my bag, and headed off to school. Besides a brief visit on Thursday, it was the first time I had gone to school since the 2nd of May! I had Ayumi sign put my name down on the attendance sheet in my anthro class. I just hope that none of my other classes took attendance! Also, Tuesday was a holiday and Thursday my Japanese class had an outing which I attended, meaning that I only missed the Friday class.

Anywho, I spent all morning in the SILS library with a book for my anthropology class. By this Wednesday we are supposed to have read 3 books about anthropology that the professor selected. This one was just a bunch of stories about how people went on with their research. Some of the stories were interesting, but most of them were not. Furthermore, I couldn't piece together how this was supposed to help us. I find it really strange that an Anthropologist (or Ethnologist) spends years doing research on a particular topic and finally writing a dissertation or book about it. I feel like that takes a ton of work, but I also feel like there is bound to be a lot of down time. Especially in that field of work, you need to have good connections to get interviews, as well as find time for all of them. I do not think I would be able to pull something like that off for a career. I need something less people based...

I was originally going to meet Kyle for lunch to loan him the Heisig.cbds book file for his DS. We met... Along with 8 other students! Among the crowd were Mike, Vaso, Steve, Michael, David, Daniel, John, and even Mieon. We all bought bento and ate in the 22 lounge. It was cool to see them again.

After lunch I got together with John and we worked on our matsuri presentation for Thursday. We spent 2 hours in the computer lab and whipped up a powerpoint and a short script.

Then I headed back to the library. I spent the rest of the day reading the 2nd book which dealt with how to do "visual" research. It gave tons of advice about taking pictures and video footage along with first hand experiences. This was a much better read than the previous book. Finally, I got the last book (which was about Tokyo architecture) and checked it out because it was already 6pm. I wanted to go to Igo club and play a few games, but I figured I should read the book instead... So I went home.