Well, I’m back at my parents house in Renton and have been since Saturday. James and I have spent the whole week here to go to a friend’s wedding (with a codename I dare not write on the internet) and we decided to stick around for Thanksgiving. It’s been kind of nich, though I feel like I cheated the working world getting yet another week off for Thanksgiving like I did at WSU. But if it makes the working world feel any better, I had to buy a $130 dress that I’ll never wear again.
I’ve been doing my usual technical voodoo at home for my parents: uploading photos from their digital cameras to the computer (yes they still don’t know how to do this), Adding and Removing programs and defragmenting their dinosaur computer that they got when I was in 9th grade. After my technical witchcraftery was done, James and I spent our days going to downtown Seattle and Renton for fun and shopping. I’ve been taking advantage of the sagging economy and using all the coupons I found in The Seattle Times to get some early Christmas shopping done. I took James to the newly renovated Southcenter Mall and we didn’t get shot so I consider the trip to be a success. On a sad note, some of my mom’s students were at the mall the day of the shooting and they’ve had to bring in trauma counselors to work with the kids.
Work has been fine, we’ve made it through a “rough” period financially and are now back on track. Apparently all the departments are getting budgets and one of the items on the list is a new Mac for me. And not just any Mac this Mac. It’s so beautiful I want to fall asleep next to it.
Also everyone at work is equally stoked that Flash CS4 will come with bidirectional language support. I.E. We can do Arabic Flash presentations. We already were doing Arabic Flash presentations but now I don’t have to do the neat trick I learned that makes the presenations take twice as long to make, but it got us mucho dinero for our efforts.
I’ve been doing a lot of independent study of my Japanese. I’ve busted out my old Level 3 (my current Japanese level) textbooks and have been trying to work my way to understanding my Level 2 (a really freaking hard level) textbooks. I’ve been spending a lot of time brushing up on the basics. I changed my WordPress and Facebook default languages to Japanese (sorry if that’s confused anyone) to get some practice while I’m internetting. I’m also going to be taking some Chinese classes come January, which should also be a lot of fun and I’m hoping the readings will be easy since I already no a lot of the characters.
Well, that’s what’s been going on with me. I’ll try to be better about updating this more so I can keep in touch with everyone.
P.S. Kaci, if you’re reading this, we need to get together and soon. For realsies.
