Returned

School is good, but it keeps me super busy so I haven't been doing much besides school, work, and squeezing in books and sewing and Internet when I can. I really like Chinese, especially, I was worried that maybe Japanese was just a fluke and I didn't have any sort of special talent for languages, but I am learning really quickly and doing really well. To me it seems really easy, except the tones, but that's just the pronunciation and everyone has trouble with those, but the writing and characters and grammar are really easy and I love learning it.

Japanese class is way too easy and I have no idea how some of the students even made it to 2nd year, since they seem to struggle with basic kanji and even read hiragana incorrectly sometimes, and don't know a lot of easy vocab that you learn in 1st year. But the teacher is really nice, I like her a lot, and I'm just studying extra kanji and getting in lots of writing practice. It's nice to be actually studying again.

Math is not too fun, I shouldn't have taken it. It got hard really quickly, and since I have the math I need and I'm not doing anything with math, I should have just taken something else. Too late now, though, so I might be getting my FIRST EVER C. AH NOES. Oh well it's college and as Ross said "Cs make degrees!" Ha. As long as I can get into library school I will be happy.

It is SO COLD in our house. I got a space heater a while back and it keeps the room nice and toasty warm except when the cats run in and out, which they do constantly. They like to whine at the door and wake everyone up and make us open the door and let them out, and then five minutes later they are back. They're so cute though so we have to forgive them, but it makes it even colder. I love my space heater though.

I had to spend some money on warmer clothes since I didn't even have a coat, and a lot of my sweaters mysteriously disappeared. So I got a wool coat (ugh but warm) and a couple of sweaters and warm pajamas for the house.

I need to get a new job. I can only work about three and a half hours a day since I have school, and that's not enough. I want to get a campus job so I can work until six or seven some days, and five or six some, and then work in between classes. It's mostly the money, but also the attitudes of some of the people who work there are really getting on my nerves.

Money, though. .The first check of the month goes entirely to rent and bills and I would starve if I hadn't gotten food stamps, so Brian and Marie shouldn't be condescending to me about it. NO I don't have any money, if I did would I be trying to get food stamps? The government has these programs for people like me. If they didn't, I wouldn't be here because that's how my mom was able to feed us when we were growing up since my dad was a lazy bum who couldn't hold down a proper job. Just because you have such fabulous parents who fed ALL FOUR OF YOU without EVER having to take government assistance, well, screw you. You don't know what it's like to be poor, and since you waste your food money on fast food and junk you don't know how happy it makes me to be able to COOK.

Unfortunately, they all had to sign the stupid paper saying that they lived with me, so I had to tell everyone stuff that I would rather keep private. Jim is great though, he's super nice about everything even though he makes fun of me all the time. I'm glad Brian decided to take the upstairs bedroom next to Marie because he's annoying enough all the way up there.

I really wanted to finish my comic today and read for a while but it's already so late I am just going to bed.