Archive for November, 2008


Throughly Distracted.

Hello all, as of late I have been slowing down on my updates.

It is not my fault. Fallout 3 and Dead Space have been distracting me from my other duties, and doing a damn good job of it. You can argue the point that no one is forcing me to play, but then again, you prolly don’t own either of these games.

I have some comics pending, so keep an eye out for those. (lies. all lies.)

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Death Note Personality Quiz Results

stolen from daphu:

Your result for The Jung Type Death Note Test…

ENTP

You scored 30% introversion, 64% intuition, 57% thinking, and 43% judging!

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My Japanese Lingual Prison

Tuesdays and Thursdays are more awkward now.

My Japanese class has a interview project which we will present at the end of the semester. We were to conduct interviews with Japanese people to learn more about Japan’s business environment. I had created a Sunday appointment with a person designated to me by my professor, and I went ahead and completed the interview.

Even before the interview began, I was required to speak only humble and polite Japanese to my interviewee. 尊敬語 (sonkeigo) and 謙譲語 (kenjyougo) are used to speak to people of “higher” class. By speaking this way, I was recognizing that she was above me, and I was below. Of course, she was also using the same speech to speak to me, but she’s Japanese so it’s easy for her. Anyway, at the end of the interview, I hoped I did not horribly butcher my Japanese and accidentally dishonor her entire family somehow.
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