End of Hiatus – I Have Slain Some Weak Demons

Hello, hello! I’ve missed everyone. My blog-reading pattern has been sporadic recently, but I’m looking to catch up on all your recent posts soon, and will start responding to tags hopefully by tomorrow.

Where I’ve Been

Well…technically, mere finals are supposed to be even weaker demons than entrance exams, right? It appears I underestimated my enemies…

• Exam #1: Stuck in a traffic jam for 2 hrs and very nearly missed the start of it. Became that obnoxious student who ate during the exam and couldn’t help but make lots of noise. Submitted without proofreading.
• Exam #2: Studied for the wrong exam and went in without having finished three of the course readings. Read only about 10% of the scholarly articles… Submitted without proofreading.
• Exam #3: Oh boy this youkai was tough. There were subjective fill-in-the-blank questions. Like, you ask me to name one unifying feature between Jane Eyre, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and Hard Times, and there’s only one right answer? Actually proofread this though!
• Exam #4: This was a take-home one and it was fine. 🙂

After submitting four term papers in the same week, I think I was a little too exhausted to care when it came to four finals in the very next week, so I just ended up trying to wing everything. I totally should have tried harder, but I don’t think I did as bad as I expected in all but Exam #3. Hey, perhaps I’m really getting better at timed writing! Final season always made me question why I went into arts instead of sciences, considering how much more I love memorizing things than improvising.

For anyone who’s considering summer courses, please do evaluate how much the course load is going to be, for your own good! It never occurred to me that taking four summer courses concurrently would be like taking eight courses in a regular term, and living 1.5 hrs away from school so doesn’t help! Not that I’m allowed to complain – Rose-senpai lives even farther away.

Aside from demon-slaying, I’ve been interning. I’ve been taking on a few new tasks. They involve the regular interviewing + article-writing, putting together a book, getting exposed to play-writing, and doing research on the benefits of walking in the forest. Yup, it’s a pretty enriching experience! I might have been slacking off somewhat for the last two weeks though… And if you’re wondering about the blogging community mini project I’ve been working on, I haven’t had much time to work on that one, but am getting to that soon! Feel free to add more responses to the Google doc any time you wish.

Technically…I did have Time for Blogging?

Well…even though I’m technically supposed to be busy, I did finish a manga and start another (Liar Game, thanks to rossiroad‘s recommendation). And translate some lyrics. And get to that disturbing scene in Doki Doki Literature Club. And finish the summer event on FGO. And take long walks, fantasize while hugging my pillow, and sing so many songs to myself while I work that I accidentally forget that I’m trying to be productive.

So yes, I could have carried on with my weekly posts, but I didn’t, because I didn’t feel like adding another thing to my schedule. Besides, you lose a bit of your enthusiasm for writing when all you do is that for weeks straight and everything you write has to sound smart. Ah, I wish I didn’t try to do so many things at the same time.

But Anyways, I’m Back Now!

On the backlog:

• Continue Toradora! collab with Primes
• Finish up my Kalafina posts
• Respond to the Write-A-Story tag
• Respond to the Tanka tag
• Do some amount of award posts
• Feature a guest blogger?
• Start a new collab series?

I’m dying to watch some Summer shows and to check out synopses of Fall shows, but I doubt I’d have the time, when there are so many more things I want to do. Yeah, I’m the type of person who just can’t settle on a reasonable amount of hobbies and wants to do everything during the summer, even though I only really have two weeks before school starts again.

Outside of Blogging To-Do List

Hey, might as well make one! You probably don’t care, but you get to read it anyways. To-do lists always make me so excited.

• Go to cool places and try fun food.
• Meet up with friends (^ Can be combined with above)
• Get fit(ter) (Idk, I’ll do yoga or something. Swim? Sounds unconvincing…)
• Go climb a tree.
• Read two books. (The Kazuo Ishiguro book I bought from Rose?)
• Bake blueberry-flavoured desserts.
• Watch more movies.
• Watch the Monogatari series. (Yes, Edgy, I’m finally getting to it)
• Finish re-watching Shiki with mom.
• Watch Game of Thrones with brother.
• Be more consistent with keeping my dream journal.
• Keep a diary in Chinese.

Oh, and I’m going to watch a play! It’s Macbeth, and I’m so thrilled. Better go and read that over too!

Think I can manage so many things in two weeks? I have doubts, but who cares. Anyways, bye now; I’m going to go work on my to-do list right away! And catch up on your blog posts sometime soon~

Hmm…do I sound much more hyper than usual? I think I do… I just feel so happy and free…