Vicious Things

I was bad today.

Number One: I ate ice cream. It was a single scoop, not a mini. I was bad, but it was yummy.

Number Two: I wasted my time watching comedies. It was not my fault, but it was Hulu's fault. I watched a couple of "The Office," "Family Guy," etc.

Number Three: I haven't started writing a summery of the assigned reading yet. It will cause a serious trouble. I'd better do it NOW.

Cockney ...

I like Britain, and actually I'm missing my days in the U.K. Why am I here?! What am I doing here?! Well, I have trouble in the TA thing for a couple of days (I hate this in-between work!), and that's why I'm whining.

Anyhow, SA and I went to see "The Bank Job" tonight. Yes, SA is my $1 threater (and entertainment in general) buddy.

The movie is based on a true story (I like this kind of sotry!) about the notorious bank robbery in London in the 1970s. Because it is set in Londong, English in the movie is of course British English. And what is worse, robbers are commoners (not eduacated people). That is, they speak Cockney. Man, it's not English to me at all! Even SA, a native American English speaker, said that he didn't understand what they were talking.

The movie itself is slightly more than OK though I wonder myself how much I understood the movie. It's about the bank robbery but the politics (and the Royal Family, too) is also intertwined. It's kind of complicated, but simply put, it's abotu sex and the politics, as always.

Come Back

My lovely phone came back to me. P brought my phone to the office this morning. Thanks, GM, for finding my phone and P, for bringing it back to me. I'm so relieved now.

Then, I remember that my cell phone gave me terrible times in Cardiff (and after I came back to Japan!). Yeah, I dropped my phone while biking, and my phone died spontaneously when it was run over by a bus. It was kind of OK because my lovely friend gave me his old phone. But when I left Cardiff, I tried to cancel my contract and I realized the cell phone carrier was evil, evil, evil. Oh, I don't want to recall it. It took so long to solve the problem.

Anyhow, my phone is back. I just want to appreciate that!

Panic!

I lost my phone! I remember I kept it in a back pocket of my jeans when I was in class this evening. And I touched the pocket a couple of times to make sure that it was there during class. Call me a nervous person or whatever, but I've sensed something strange about my phone today. That's why I brought my phone to class, though I usually leave it in my office. And a consequence is this. What's the hell!

After class, I went back to the office to email someone. And I realized that I lost my phone when I left the office. I went back to the classroom and frantically looked for the phone, but I couldn't find it. I visited another office, expecting someone from the class stayed there. Yes, someone was there. No, she didn't see my phone. As next move, I picked up a sheet of paper, wrote a quick note to the instructor, again expecting she might have found and kept it (because I was sitting next to her) and slipped it under her office door. As next move, I emailed everyone in class to ask if they saw my phone.

I'm now waiting for someone replying my email ... Come on, someone! Answer me! Say that you got my phone! Please ...

Out of Panic!

Yes, P keeps my phone! Thank Buddha. Actually, GM found it on the chair where I was sitting, and P keeps it for me. Oh man, I really appreciate my cohort's teamwork if you call it teamwork. Yes, it's kind of teamwork, isn't it?

I'm so relieved now. In other words, I was so nervous that I lost my phone because losing my phone means losing a lot of contact information of my friends. That idea scared me.

Now, another problem came to me. Damn it, I was so unlucky tonight. Well, I was lucky in a sense because my friends found my phone. But another problem is about tomorrow's class. The instructor is not satisfied with questions which our team (different team than my cohort) brought to her. Jeez, I emailed my team members. They were good enough to reply me faster than I expected, but they were more easy-going than I expected. Hmm, I don't want to disappoint the instructor though my team members said we should be OK. I need to go through those readings one more time.

Too Much Fun

I'm working on , well, almost done with, compiling a corporate profile of the Register-Guard. But I needed to confirm my assumptions. Because you know the paper is owned by a family and they don't open the financial reports to the public, all I can do is presume what is going on from peripheral information and data.

I asked MT for help. I needed specialist's opinions about properties which the paper owns. MT moved fast, and she introduced me to someone who she said the best commercial real estate specialist in town. Wow, that's great!

MT gave me his office phone number, and I called him in the morning to make an appointment. The specialist moved fast, too, and he set our meeting in the afternoon today.

I visited his office in downtown. His office is modern and neat. He is also neat and nice, and he gave me his opinions to back up my assumptions. That's great! I appreciate both of them. They are very busy business people, but they spared some time for me. Thanks, MT and JE!

Anyhow, I've been having so much fun with the Register-Guard stuff. Because of that, I think I've been doing extra work which may not be important or useful for my future papers and ultimately dissertation. Well, I'd better refrain myself a little bit in terms of the Register-Guard.

Double GMs

Tonight, there was a long-awaiting get-together with GM and GM! We went to 19th Cafe to grab some beer (wine for one of GMs). GM treated us, a.k.a. poor GTFs, or a.k.a. cheap labor of the university. Thanks, GM!

I love GMs. They are candid, and therefore, they are easy to talk and share with. This is very important to me because I can ask them to hang out in a casual way. On top of that, both are political economy people who take the same line with me. I respect their perspectives and learn a lot from them.

Anyhow, I love both of them, and I appreciate that I'm lucky to have someone like them here.