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May. 9th, 2005 05:33 pmUnfortunately, I'm working at the UN again. I really wish I wasn't. This time around I'm doing something a little different -- working for Juha and Miguel in M&E (Monitoring and Evaluation). They have me doing CV analysis into database form. (Anyone who knows MS Access is more than welcome to give me tips/advice/etc.) If they were paying me less, I would have been able to resist taking the job. But I need the money, and with me, logic always outways emotion -- even if it's my own emotion. =( I'd really rather not be working here -- with my hair boring black, and dressed like every other yuppie who works in midtown. What I really need is a job that's at least semi-interesting, pays decently, and allows me to wear casual and/or rock-style clothes, dye my hair unnatural colors, and have piercings.
I've gotten back into reading again, for which I'm eternally grateful. I'd stopped in the middle of Jacqueline Carey's Banewreaker and was unable to pick up another book for a few months. But then I was telling Maryann about LKH's Anita Blake series and realized that I hadn't read the latest installment. So I rushed home to read it! It was better than the last couple of books, but LKH has really dropped in quality of plot lately. It's disappointing, although I still have (some) hope. Her Merry series is only slightly better.
Mercedes Lackey, on the other hand, is just as good as she ever was (if not better). Co-written with James Mallory, To Light a Candle, the second part in her Obsidian Trilogy, is even better than the first book. I'm trying to restrain myself as much as possible from racing through the 500+ page book.
I've been thinking a lot lately about having visited Japan a month ago. I'm really missing it -- I had so much fun being there and hanging out with Yoshi. And I think Yoshi's friends, Scott and Stephanie, made it even more fun than it would've been. I know that I'm definitely going to go back before Yoshi comes back to the US for good; it would be really nice to see them again, though. I don't know about Stephanie, but I do know that Scott won't be in Japan at the time. =(
I had this conversation with Maryann about speaking the language while in a foreign country. She said that while she was in Germany, she really picked up a lot, and it was easier to pick up stuff. Makes sense; you never really learn a studied language until you've immersed yourself in it, ne? I think I'd like to do the JET thing sometime in the future. Not right now, though. I found that while in Japan I was a lot more willing, and comfortable, speaking (or trying to speak) in Japanese than I am here in the US. It's weird. Even if I had to ask Yoshi for help in saying something, I just felt less pressured to... get it right? I dunno. But it was really nice. I really want to go back, but I'm going to really try and take some lessons before I do. I'd like to have a little more foundation in grammar, and some vocabulary first.
Awww. I really want to be back there with everyone!
On a side note: Maryann brought back an album by a German band, Oomph!, which I've completely fallen in love with -- they play the type of music that I consistently like -- somewhere between rock and Industrial. ::sigh:: It's sooooo goooood. I've been listening to Varheit oder Pflicht nonstop. I mean that literally (and I've been learning some German because of it, which is cool). She brought back one of their older albums, Defekt, but I don't even know if how much or little I like it because I can't stop listening to VOP!
I've gotten back into reading again, for which I'm eternally grateful. I'd stopped in the middle of Jacqueline Carey's Banewreaker and was unable to pick up another book for a few months. But then I was telling Maryann about LKH's Anita Blake series and realized that I hadn't read the latest installment. So I rushed home to read it! It was better than the last couple of books, but LKH has really dropped in quality of plot lately. It's disappointing, although I still have (some) hope. Her Merry series is only slightly better.
Mercedes Lackey, on the other hand, is just as good as she ever was (if not better). Co-written with James Mallory, To Light a Candle, the second part in her Obsidian Trilogy, is even better than the first book. I'm trying to restrain myself as much as possible from racing through the 500+ page book.
I've been thinking a lot lately about having visited Japan a month ago. I'm really missing it -- I had so much fun being there and hanging out with Yoshi. And I think Yoshi's friends, Scott and Stephanie, made it even more fun than it would've been. I know that I'm definitely going to go back before Yoshi comes back to the US for good; it would be really nice to see them again, though. I don't know about Stephanie, but I do know that Scott won't be in Japan at the time. =(
I had this conversation with Maryann about speaking the language while in a foreign country. She said that while she was in Germany, she really picked up a lot, and it was easier to pick up stuff. Makes sense; you never really learn a studied language until you've immersed yourself in it, ne? I think I'd like to do the JET thing sometime in the future. Not right now, though. I found that while in Japan I was a lot more willing, and comfortable, speaking (or trying to speak) in Japanese than I am here in the US. It's weird. Even if I had to ask Yoshi for help in saying something, I just felt less pressured to... get it right? I dunno. But it was really nice. I really want to go back, but I'm going to really try and take some lessons before I do. I'd like to have a little more foundation in grammar, and some vocabulary first.
Awww. I really want to be back there with everyone!
On a side note: Maryann brought back an album by a German band, Oomph!, which I've completely fallen in love with -- they play the type of music that I consistently like -- somewhere between rock and Industrial. ::sigh:: It's sooooo goooood. I've been listening to Varheit oder Pflicht nonstop. I mean that literally (and I've been learning some German because of it, which is cool). She brought back one of their older albums, Defekt, but I don't even know if how much or little I like it because I can't stop listening to VOP!
