This week started off with my being on Vampire Standard Time. I didn’t manage to get to sleep all night, then slept all day and I missed the lab seminar that day. Thankfully that got corrected to a more normal pattern during the week.

I think I lost my bankbook. It’s bound to be around here somewhere, but since most of my stuff is still in bags or piles, I’m not sure when I’ll actually get around to finding it. I’m sure it’ll be soon… that or I’ll have to go to the bank and fess up that I lost it. Speaking of banking, I did a little bit of work on my own banking system, and put in some more back-entries from my spreadsheet. Boy is that going to take forever to get those back-entries in.

Things at uni have been mainly working on the survey system for my research, which is somewhat slow going. Certainly slower than I expected it to be. Other than that, it’s just been talking to a few of my labmates and the usual weekly meeting.

This week a few interesting things happened. I started to have a play around with Blitz, a programming language (and interface) designed specifically for making games. I’m not sure how much time I’m going to be spending on learning it as I go forward, but since my friend Ian has used it before, I figure it’s easier for me to learn that and work with him on a project using that than it is for both of us to learn something new. Anastasia is in LA at the moment, which has been a bit weird on the time difference for getting to talk, but we’ve managed to connect pretty regularly this week, which is good.

I went to see Defiance with Kyoko this week, which I enjoyed despite it being a war movie which isn’t usually my cup of tea. Apparently I also didn’t turn into a foreigner this time when the movie ended! We had a bit of a chat about it afterwards and she thinks that since we went to see Iron Man (months after the rest of the world), I’ve gradually been turning into a foreigner less and less! ^^ I do find it rather hilarious that she tends to think of me as Japanese in a lot of contexts. We also had a look around the area around my house a bit as well – the local ramen shop is pretty good, actually. We played pool at a place near the station that was ridiculously cheap… although I am still in utter disbelief over how many times I managed to sink the white ball in one session. I ended up losing 3-5, but learned that Japanese people do tally counting by gradually writing the kanji for “correct” – interesting, huh?