Entries this day: Dark_matters Letter_to_Francois Shinpei_lesson

Dark matters

11:25am JST Saturday 18 November 2006 (day 13387)

Holy crapa. The screen on my laptop is not lighting. Like at all. It's working and I can see (sorta) that all the windows are fine and happy (and closeable as I'm shutting the machine down to see if rebooting it will help), but the brightness is simply dark.

11:30am JST

Rebooting helped.

Letter to Francois

11:31am JST Saturday 18 November 2006 (day 13387)

My homework is to write a letter to Francois (in Japanese)

Shinpei lesson

1:01am JST Sunday 19 November 2006 (day 13388)

Tonight I wasn't 100% genki with Shinpei at our language exchange, and I decided buying a new book and starting from "scratch" was just the thing I needed to do. We headed to Book First in Shibuya and I decided on Minna No Nihongo, even though I didn't like the book when I first started studying, but perhaps this time with the workbook and CDs to go along with it, I'd enjoy it more. I can listen to the CDs at night; they contain only spoken Japanese and no pesky English translation.

Totaly price for the two books and 4 CDs: $95.

Didn't take the plunge. Wanna try to get some of dat shit used.

Just looked on Amazon and found basically the same prices and 4 to 6 weeks delivery. Sigh.