18 hours !!

Yeah well I leave in about 18 hours. Last night Jason and I went on our last "date" for a long time and saw Balls of Fury. It was that or Mr. Bean's Holiday. It was actually pretty funny.

I really need to study Japanese before classes begin. I met with one of the Japanese TA's yesterday to review some of the work I wrote as I have been trying to review and there are definitely places for improvement.

Erin took the day off, but had to run some errands. I am hoping she gets home quick so we can go to India Palace and get some Chicken Tikka Masala. I love that stuff and so does Erin surprisingly.

One thing that I have been thinking about, that my advisor kind of confirmed to me yesterday, is taking up some kind of Japanese hobby while I am there. I thought of trying to learn how to play the biwa, a Japanese lute, while I am there. I think more then anything learning something like this will keep me from going insane from studying Japanese everyday and also will allow me new oppurtunities to use Japanese in a settign outside of the Univeristy. But, we will see what happens.

An example of a biwa