Day 92 - April 8

So today did NOT start out well.  Though, while starting off poorly it also started off strangely.

Apparently I had left my phone on vibrate last night, and this cell phone doesn't vibrate with the painfully loud noise that my US cell phone vibrates with, so I slept through my alarm at 8am and didn't get up until 11:15am.  I had my last Japanese class at 10:20...  Fortunately, all we were doing was the remaining two skits (which we did ours on Tuesday) and exam review, though I do wish I hadn't missed the review...

So on to the strange part about waking up this morning.  My biological clock does weird things.  Once, I went to sleep at 12:15am and got up at 1:30am feeling as if it were 7:30 (when I was supposed to get up), stopped my alarm (which wasn't going off), took a shower, and then out in the common room realized it was more than 5 hours before I was supposed to get up.  I think that happened sometime last semester.

This morning I was having a dream about something or other, when I get a text message from Tsuki (in the dream).  I take out my phone and look at it, and the message says, "It is time for you to wake up."  As soon as I see that I instantly wake up.  Of course, I know instantly from the look of the room that I definitely missed my alarm, and a quick glance at the clock tells me just how badly.  I had 45 minutes until my next class started and I still needed to eat something, gather my stuff, and make the 50 minute trip to school.

I managed to get to school at about 12:20, so I wasn't too late to my 2nd class.  After that things were pretty normal.  I had my 1-on-1 debate in Public Speaking today, which went alright.  Our topic was "violent video games make children more violent" and I was on the Affirmative side.  I could write a dissertation on the Negative side, so this was extremely difficult for me and I felt dirty afterward.  At least I was able to get through the whole thing using mostly-intelligent arguments and not once invoking the name of Jack Thompson and the circus he brought with him everywhere (until he finally got disbarred, HA!).

After Public Speaking I was officially done with classes for this semester.  OK, not really, I still have International Marketing tomorrow and on Monday, but no one is going to go Monday anyways.  So today was my REAL last day of classes.  As if to celebrate that for me, there was an event in Akihabara that we noticed last Friday was going to be happening today.  It turns out that this was a celebration at Club SEGA for Little Busters! selling over 100,000 copies.  I think.  There were too many kanji.  Anyways, over half of the 2nd floor of the new Club SEGA building was full of Little Busters! stuff in UFO catchers.  Unfortunately, there wasn't a lot that interested me.  There were a lot of goods for Kud and that Tsundere-looking blonde girl from the EX expansion, and I'm not a rabid fan of either of them.  I did like, and manage to win, a Rin Natsume microfiber towel and a Rin Natsume tumbler, which I am rather pleased with.

Once I felt satisfied with that Club SEGA I decided to go roam Akiba for a bit.  Remember, this was my first time in Akiba without someone else there to attempt to stop me.  THIS IS A BAD IDEA.  Quite surprisingly, however, I managed to exhibit a very high degree of self-control and prevented myself from buying anything despite going into several stores and other arcades.  *proud*

The remainder of the night was the usual:  Gundam Kizuna at the arcade next to the 'baba station, win something easy from the UFO catchers there, and then head back to my room.  Since then I've been talking to Tsuki and writing this.  Now I think I'll eat dinner while watching Lucky Star and actually go to bed early (before 2am, hopefully at 1am).  I really want to get my normal sleep time down to midnight before Tsuki gets here so that I won't end up wasting the mornings sleeping while she's here.

Which reminds me, in LESS THAN 3 DAYS Tsuki will be here!!!  I'm really looking forward to it ^_^.