I've just had two exemplary meals and some fresh homemade carrot juice. It's good to be home. Plus, I have big plans for this break. I'm going to go over my French and take the placement test in January, I'm going to learn all the characters from my Chinese textbook (yes, those pesky traditional ones too), I'm going to do something about learning Objective-C and Cocoa (finally?) from the many books I've downloaded. Okay, maybe not all of that because a very sizable week of the already-tiny winter break is going to be spent in the southern reaches of the country. But definitely the French and the characters. I need to do those. The good news is that I have now acquired a whiteboard and some dry-erase markers using which I can practice writing characters endlessly without wasting a single sheet of paper.

The grades situation is looking wonky. Now that I have all my grades for the quarter, it's the fuzzy grades that have significantly outpaced the techie ones and that's not a good sign. I did get the Chinese grade I wanted (yay!) but to keep everything balanced, my CS grade took a dip and has now landed at its first non-A. Sad. I really need to study more. Sigh… why do I hate working so much?! If only I hadn't started so many projects the day before they were due, I might have scraped some sort of an A in CS. Depressingly enough, I think the thing that really makes me happy is good grades and unfortunately, they don't just drop out of the sky. Wish they would…

Still, there's much to look forward to. Like another night's sleep that's not going to end in an alarm clock going off. Gosh, sleeping might be my favourite thing in the world… I'm screwed up.

Also, isn't it awesome how the character for "family" is basically a pig under a roof?

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