I hate busy work.

I hate busy work.

I hate busy work, and I hate classes that are full of nothing but busy work.

My Shakespeare survey course feels like something I could have taken in high school. I have a paper due on Thursday that is pretty much a rehash of what we've talked about in class, though we are free to "expand" on the ideas. I don't feel like rehashing what we've discussed in class. I wish I felt like reading the material, but that's another story entirely.

I'm getting very excited about my honeymoon. You may not realize this, but I love Japan. I love Japan! Did I mention I love Japan? Because I do.

We haven't finalized any details yet, but we're looking at Tokyo, Nikko, Kyoto, Nara, and Hiroshima. I would love to go back to Hakodate, but that's way up north, so it might not be possible. We'll only have nine days to do all of our traveling. That seems like such a short amount of time, but then I remember that I covered many, many cities in just two weeks last summer, so maybe it'll all work out. Then again, I don't want the honeymoon to be hectic like the school trip was. I'd like it to be comfortable and relaxing, but still allow us to see lots of sights. I hope it all works out.

Today, I'm going to begin the agonizing process of ripping all my VHS tapes (except the copyrighted stuff, of course) to .avi. I will then compress these nicely and burn them to DVD. It will be a joyous occasion, full of trumpets and streamers and other joyous things that joyous people use on joyous occasions. (I don't know; I don't go to parades.)

My Japanese textbooks are leering at me from across the room. I really need to get them out and start working with them again. I did a little bit over the summer, but not very much, really. The card table they're sitting on is currently full of VHS tapes that I need to rip; I'm promising myself that once that's done, I'll dig into the Japanese. It's such a daunting language, though. Three writing systems...oy. And it doesn't help that the grammar rules are totally different from those of English. Still, if we're going to be in Japan in March, I really should bone up on my m4d sk1llz, so I can at least order dinner.

すしをお願いします！ (switch your encoding to Japanese, if you haven't already)

I want to watch a DVD, but not any of the ones I own. It's a sad state of affairs. I should write my Congressman.