So, here it is, 0530 hours, and I'm awake. -.- I had gone ahead and forgotten there was a time such as 0500, seeing as I'm up until about 0200 or 0230 every night studying or doing homework. The latest is usually 0330, but that's only if I'm working after school. Currently, the cause of my wakefulness at this unremembered hour is sickness, namely a cold that doesn't want to let me sleep. Fortunately, with payday tomorrow (well, technically TODAY -.-), I'll soon have medicine. ^_^
Well, 5 weeks into my journey and I've figured something out. I need a Korean tutor. Even devoting one to two hours a day to learn doesn't work so well when everything you're using to try to help you learn works at a different pace or teaches differently from the others. With mid-terms coming up in the next two weeks, the temptation has been laid to back off my Korean studies. I'm having none of it, though. So, I've opened the floodgates of e-mail, and my request for assistance is now out there somewhere, floating around in-boxes all over the net. Hopefully, someone will respond. ^_^
I'm trying to figure out if I should panic before exams now. I panicked before my first Religion in China exam, as it was rumored to be exceptionally hard. I did well. I panicked before my Chinese mid-term and also did well. I studied very hard for both exams before taking them, but worried I didn't study enough. Mid-terms are coming. If I panic now, I wonder what I'll be like when finals come around. o.o
I have been battling a homework problem as well. It's called cat gravity. For those of you unfamiliar with cat gravity, it's when you are trapped in one position because a cat has taken it upon themselves to use you as a bed/perch/lookout point/etc, and you don't want to move for fear of disturbing the cat. Sometimes it's because they look so comfortable, other times it's because you didn't move them before they fell asleep and they will claw you to ribbons if you wake them up. It usually happens without me really noticing it. I'll be doing my homework and move to adjust my seating, (I can't really sit in one position for long periods of time,) only to find my lap has been annexed by at least one, if not both, cats. Trying to adjust with them on my lap leads to my legs looking like lightly-used scratching posts. And if I happen to be eating at any point, not only is there cat gravity, there is also a tiny, self-righteous, loud kitten proclaiming that my food has become her's in its trip from kitchen to desk. Fortunately, both of these problems are easily solved by doors and headphones.
Roommates, however, are not so easily deterred by doors, and headphones have no meaning to them. I'm not exactly sure what specific words I have to use, and in what order, to get them to leave me alone when I'm doing my homework or studying. I will specifically ask to not be bothered for the next two or three hours, only to find one of them poking at my shoulder a half-hour later with the wonderfully oblivious question of: What are you doing? -.- I understand that neither of them are going to school, but they know perfectly well that I work two jobs and have 15 credit hours, and therefore have barely ANY spare time. They know that when I come home from school, my time is completely taken up with homework, studying, answering the e-mails from my professors and my conversation partner, working on my research project, or taking a short break between subjects to maybe watch something on Youtube or whatnot. I'm debating between installing a trapdoor that drops into the basement or posting a sign that says 'If there is a Korean music video playing on my screen, do not disturb.' (I study while looping my K-Pop Youtube playlist.) I suppose I'll try the sign first. If only to be nice. ^_^ However, the first time I get interrupted studying for mid-terms and someone is not actively dying...basement trapdoor.
I've rambled on enough for this morning, I think. I believe I'll take another try at this 'sleeping' thing and see if I might be able to succeed. ^_^
Good night
안녕히 주무세요
おやすみなさい
晚安
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