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2006-03-31 12:31 amI really hate myself at the moment.
I did not get anything done during the past two months. Well, not necessarily "anything". I did get a lot done. Just not the things I wanted to get done or have to get done. I went to Italy, got a new haircut (I wonder how many stares I will receive, because it's so totally different from my former haircut.), finally got glasses (I wanted to get that done two years ago, but, well, apparently I never get things like that done in time.) and so on.
But I neither had any time left to work on my stories, nor to work on my essay about a book for my Japanese history course. During the first one and a half weeks, I did have time, but I did not have the book. And now I have the book, but no time left. Not because I am a slow reader, I am not, but because I really want to get most details the first time, so I make excessive use of my four textmarkers (I have not done that since tenth grade. And that time, I really enjoyed colouring the whole book.) and summarize the paragraphs on the sides. Oh, and I look up every word that I do not understand, which are thankfully not that many (about one word per page). So I managed to work through 30 pages today so far (about labour policies in the first four years after the First World War), which means I have about... 180 pages (five of the eight chapters) left.
But I admit, I actually do like the book, which was not the case with the book I first wanted to write about. That's why I decided to change the book last minute, and now I am reading "The State and Labor in Modern Japan" by Sheldon Garon. The "o" is important, on the list our professor has given us (for those who can't find a book on their own), she said his name was "Garn". I really wonder where that woman left her mind sometimes. It sure as hell is not inside of her head.
And because I love the night shift so much (and read about 10 pages about the struggle of certain individuals to prohibit working during the night for women and children), I am going to spend the next few hours with the endeavours of the social bureaucrats during the Taishou era.
I did not get anything done during the past two months. Well, not necessarily "anything". I did get a lot done. Just not the things I wanted to get done or have to get done. I went to Italy, got a new haircut (I wonder how many stares I will receive, because it's so totally different from my former haircut.), finally got glasses (I wanted to get that done two years ago, but, well, apparently I never get things like that done in time.) and so on.
But I neither had any time left to work on my stories, nor to work on my essay about a book for my Japanese history course. During the first one and a half weeks, I did have time, but I did not have the book. And now I have the book, but no time left. Not because I am a slow reader, I am not, but because I really want to get most details the first time, so I make excessive use of my four textmarkers (I have not done that since tenth grade. And that time, I really enjoyed colouring the whole book.) and summarize the paragraphs on the sides. Oh, and I look up every word that I do not understand, which are thankfully not that many (about one word per page). So I managed to work through 30 pages today so far (about labour policies in the first four years after the First World War), which means I have about... 180 pages (five of the eight chapters) left.
But I admit, I actually do like the book, which was not the case with the book I first wanted to write about. That's why I decided to change the book last minute, and now I am reading "The State and Labor in Modern Japan" by Sheldon Garon. The "o" is important, on the list our professor has given us (for those who can't find a book on their own), she said his name was "Garn". I really wonder where that woman left her mind sometimes. It sure as hell is not inside of her head.
And because I love the night shift so much (and read about 10 pages about the struggle of certain individuals to prohibit working during the night for women and children), I am going to spend the next few hours with the endeavours of the social bureaucrats during the Taishou era.
