Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward.

it is a step up from the last class, but i haven’t reached that 4.0 yet.

tomorrow i exchange all my money for a piece of paper and 1/5 of a little place. here’s hoping its everything i need and want.

Zack and I just had a stimulating conversation over email and I have to admit, he is quite a bit more logical than I. I realized that this was happening when he beat me in some strategy board game a few years ago. I don’t have the discipline to stay the course and quickly become overconfident. Sometimes I feel like such a poor student. Don told me that good students take the wrong paths and I can’t help but feel like I am constantly doing so. I hope that he is correct and that is an indication of a good student but I cannot help but wonder. Anyway, the computer spit this quote at me and I figured it was apt timing:

i’m getting quite annoyed with my belly/weight. it is my own fault, as my horribly unhealthy lunch today shows. so i’m just going to get serious about eating less, eating better, and exercising more.

the more Eriko and I research our marriage, the more complicated it becomes! our current line of thought is we will get a marriage license in December so that we’ll have time for the green card application to process. i find out today whether the japanese class i signed up for received enough enrollment to proceed. i hope so. i don’t have the motivation/discipline to make time to study myself; i need to be pressured into it. =)