Life Is Good.

[akujunkan]

Because I just registered to take Conversational Chinese and Conversational Burmese through IPFW. I am now closer to my goal of having the three East Asian languages and one or more of the Southeast Asian languages under my belt. (Governments and Foreign Policy Thinktanks of the World, hire me!)

In other news, a bald eagle landed in the tree by the lake a few days ago. It was the first one I'd seen outside of a zoo. Man, do those birds have presence.

That will be all.

Comments

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

mmm. Chinese...scary. I still have Japanese and Korean to learn, but only enough to be a non-helpless tourist.

..belated congrats on finishing the GRE's..hope you got the score you needed for whatever you needed it for.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The schools I'm applying to are all cagey bastards and won't give target numbers for the GRE, but judging by the GRE books, I've done pretty well. So that's a nice weight off.

Chinese is scary, and I'm probably not going to learn all that much in 20 hours (or however long the course is), but it's a start. I think that you're doing things the smart way, by realising limitations at the outset;)

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Yay for classes! Have you ever formally studied Chinese? (And what's IPFW?)

And congrats on surviving the GRE. That's such an annoying test. They took out the only fun part, which was the logic section.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Nope, this is going to be the first formal study, after which I will probably be sufficiently scared off that I can finally give up the pipe dreams;) IPFW=Indiana Purdue University Fort Wayne, which is the local(est) branch of said colleges.

I'm actually glad they took out the logic section, which terrified me in its original incarnation, and replaced it with the logic-via-written argument section, which plays to my strengths. I am, however, happy to have taken the test prior to its next incarnation, which won't.

[dark-waterlily.livejournal.com]

(Governments and Foreign Policy Thinktanks of the World, hire me!)
Hired!.... erm wait, I am not part of any government nor FPTs X(

In other news, a bald eagle landed in the tree by the lake a few days ago
That reminded me of Lisa Simpson... you remind me of Lisa in the fact you both love books and that you are not easily fooled.
As I told you before, congratulations!

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Awesome! (And thanks.) Lisa is my favorite, next to Maggie, who is just adorably cute.