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Absinthe. Tried it once, wild night, almost assuredly will never try it again. Luckily everything turned out fine after that crazy night of partying. Rest of the weekend was pretty enjoyable, it was a school festival here so we did all kinds of things with the bunkyo students. Could have been better, but could have been much worse. One thing really bothered me though, but nothing will seem to come of that no matter how I try. Really ticks me off that my two buddies just antagonized me for no apparent reason. infuriating to say the least. Sort of put a nasty raincloud over the rest of the weekend.

I also did a report about the guest lecturer who refused to answer questions that we posed to him, and he dodged the others. The paper is nice and inquisitive on its surface, but critical underneath. I was able to slide my criticism through due to the "lack of an appropriate question and answer session" so I was forced to come to conclusions about the topic that was discussed. These conclusions could not be refuted by the speaker due to the "woefully inadequate" Q and A period, so I wrote them on the paper. So I feel like my butt is covered in that case. There is only one politically sensitive issue in the paper. I said that the Japanese culture will never die out unless it fails to keep the attention of the Japanese people. Therefore, if it dissapears, the Japanese will have no one to blame but themselves. I suppose this could be seen as an insult, but to be honest, you could slap any countries name in that slot and it would still be a universal truth.
Regardless, chances are slim that anyone will actually read the paper, and it will just get marked as a 'completed' on whatever grading mechanism the teachers are using.

I have two papers due wednesday, one that will actually have to be a real paper, and another that is a very simple assignment. Who knows what the literature professor expects, considering his suggested topic was extremely vague. Anyway, if his assignment is a suggested two pages, he can't honestly expect a good assessment of any of the books. I guess I'll just have to have fun with it.

Went to the Ghibli museum today, which was enjoyable. Some really neat animation things inside, although we couldn't get in the (in)famous cat bus.

I'm feeling despondent lately, for reasons that probably shouldn't really bother a normal person, but bother the christ out of me for some reason. I can't get them out of my head. Really seemingly trivial stuff, even I can understand that, but for the life of me it wont stop bothering me or hurting me inside.