In case I haven’t made it clear enough in the past, the Japanese professors here at UT are the coolest in the world. Chino-sensei, my first-year teacher from way back, just gave me a copy of the Japanese Aa! Megami-sama! (Oh My Goddess!) manga volume 26. She was also the one who gave me a gold bookmark for my birthday earlier this year. Is that cool or what?
I’m feeling pretty good now. My throat is still a bit sore, and I didn’t get much sleep last night because my mind was still going in circles, and that made the interview I just gave the campus paper about the presentation all the more difficult. All in all, though, I’m feeling well enough that I’m making my normal, moody self pretty damn disgusted. Who knows, though, maybe I’m actually on the way to finding happiness here. Now if only my best friend will get hold of me …