Poem

Chapter 15 of the poetry book talked about how poems could be simple or complicated, as in one can take it literally or there can be hidden messages to it. I’ve noticed that I enjoy more of the literal poems. Maybe this is because I’m not really a creative type but rather a logical type of person. Like “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams is very simple, very straight forward and easy to interpret. I enjoy this type of poem, I guess also because of my culture. The most famous type of Japanese poetry is Haiku. Of course not all haiku is literal but most are. The point of haiku is to describe the season and that to me is much easier to understand and I can feel the connection with the author.

Closing up to Finals

With all the trouble with my fiancé’s condition, the semester is finally coming to a close. This semester had been one of the more difficult one considering I am taking 18 hours with tons of absent due to my fiancé’s condition. But just because we are at the end doesn’t mean it’s any easier. I have 3 papers to write, 2 presentation, and final coming up. My senior year was suppose to be my easiest year but ironically I had to take 2 history class (which I dislike history the most) and oral communication (which I get nervous when I have to do public speaking). So in fact, this semester turns out to be the most difficult semester for me. But in a week or so I will be done.

Christmas Carole

Last Friday, my fiancé and I went to see the Christmas Carole at the Theatre Memphis. I am really not the biggest fan of theatre (live theatre or movie theater) because I feel uncomfortable sitting in one position for a long time. But Jason M. Spitzer, the director of the play, did a tremendous job. I especially liked the fact that Ghost of Christmas present was played by a female character, whereas I am used to it to be a large male character. The special effects were wonderful and acting was stunning. I still am not the biggest fan of theatre but I sure will not regret this show.

Procrastination

After the long break, I have a tendency to forget about school works (which I am sure a lot of people share the same problem.). So the night before Monday, around 11:30 at night after helping my boss move, I noticed I had a take home exam in my comparative politics class. Of course this wasn’t just a careless mistake; I knew I had it at the beginning of the break but decided to procrastinate because the test looked rather easy. Well, some wise person said, never judge by look, because this test was just awfully hard. There were 102 questions and it took me 6 and half hours to finish. I think I learned my lesson after staying up until 7 and had to wake up at 8.

Moving

My boss that I work for, one of the professor of the Foreign Language and Literature Department moved to Mud Island, Downtown. Since she lived close to where I lived, I’ve visited her often to help her research and also I worked on her webpage. Anyway, so during this break I spent my whole Friday and Saturday moving her stuff out of her apartment to her new house. This new house of her is just gorgeous. It’s actually a condo but its right by the Mississippi river, and gosh the sunset is beautiful. But the work load was definitely not beautiful, after going up and down the stairs to the 3^rd, 4^th floor, it seemed like I had my work out for at least a month.

Thanksgiving

This year, I celebrated Thanksgiving at my fiancé’s parent’s house. The lunch consists of her family, her aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, grandfather, and couple of my friends. The event was wild as usual with superb feast and lots of drinking (yes, I am legal thank you very much). We decided to play “UNO attack” (typical UNO game with a device that shoots cards at you when button is pushed). That was definitely an experience, especially because the games took average of 30-40 minutes with all those people. Afterward, the niece and nephew wanted to play Pictionary but I had to retire from it.