Greetings from Friday night. Thursday was my second to last day of classes, and it was one of those nice days where all the classes are lined up right up until lunch, and then I was done for the day. I enjoyed eating my lunch and then did some studying before heading home.
The big deal at school lately is all the sick people. Not just the students, but teachers have been taking sick days, and that’s a big deal. Lots of people have reported having the flu. I’m not one of them, luckily. The second year students have close to twenty people out, and two teachers. We lost two first year teachers today – they both went home right after classes with high fevers. Everyone else was gargling and scrubbing their hands with soap and hot water.
A while back I loaded some new vocabulary into my handheld computer, and today I realized that I screwed up some of the data accidentally when I entered it. Tonight after work I went into the data and tried to get it all fixed up, and ended up making a big mess of it. To make a long story short – I lost the week’s learning, and I’ll have to go back and do it again. The good news is that everything else is still there, and for a little while it looked like I had erased it accidentally. That would have been more than 6000 words down the tubes.
Another good thing is that even though the software won’t have the records of me memorizing my words this week, the fact remains that I did memorize them. They’re still in my head, and when I redo them tomorrow I should be just fine. The point of the whole exercise is to keep them fresh in my head, all the time, and so this is just a case of a technology crutch temporarily malfunctioning. I hope.
My evening was spent in front of the computer cursing while Kuniko worked out her aggressions on the Wii. We had a simple stir fry for dinner that turned out really nicely, and then hit the bed pretty late. Tomorrow is Friday, at last.
