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[rinlin]

Life has certainly been full of ups and downs and eventful things these past couple of days.

I, just as I feared, was not able to test into the correct level of Japanese that I would have needed for this semester. So, I have to go a semester without Japanese. I have been quite depressed about this and trying not to think about it too much, because it makes me start feeling lost and panicky. It's my major and I can't take a class on it this semester. I'm so worried that I'm going to forget too much if I can't consistently keep up with my Japanese. I have to see about getting a tutor for this semester.

Kristi, Greta, and Nicole are all moved into the townhouse. I actually think it's going to work out fairly well. We've had a talk with Kristi about keeping things clean. She's asked us to tell her anytime something in the house bothers us or if she needs to clean something. I think with all of us living in the house this semester we will be able to make sure that it stays reasonably clean. Much of the house has already been cleaned and we're in the process of organizing it.

This then brings us to last night. We got a good chunk of our group together for dinner at TGI Friday's. We met up with Amy and Emilia (aka Payne and Blaser), Kristi's friends who I knew in passing. They're now members of the Dog Lovers' Society, our cosplay group that my friends started last semester. Unfortunately, we were having the dinner because it was Amy's last night in Bloomington. She had to leave Bloomington this semester, which left Emilia without a roommate and unable to pay her rent. Emilia was having trouble finding someone to room with, so we agreed that she could move into the townhouse with us! We're getting rid of our dining room table, so that we can curtain off the area and Emilia can use it as her room (because we have no more room in the bedrooms). It all happened so fast! We decided she could move in with us last night, and now we've already had her name put on the lease to our place and she's been moving some of her stuff into the house. We'll have a full house, but it should be a lot of fun. And I like Emilia. She seems like a very sweet person. I'm definitely looking forward to having all of us living together this semester. The rent will be super affordable too, since we're splitting it five ways.

Classes start tomorrow. I'm not quite ready for them to begin though. Tomorrow I've got Intro to International Studies and Intro to Gender Studies. I hope they'll be interesting.

Comments

[meepalicious.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about the Japanese thing. That's a real pain in the ass. In addition to getting a tutor, can you see about tutoring someone in the level right below you? That should help you to keep up your Japanese, and you might even be able to get paid for it, too.

I'm glad you've got stuff worked out with the townhouse, and it's neat that you've got another roommate. That should help keep the rent down, too, right?

Also, gender studies and a class about fandom? I want your class schedule!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_yaten_kou_/]

I'll have to see what I can do about Japanese.

Our rent is super cheap now (under $200 per person, plus utilities)!

So far, Gender Studies seems like a promising class. I'm super looking forward to the fandom class tomorrow!