Well, this week marks the longest I’ve had insomnia for a little while. Usually it’s gone after a week. Hopefully it will clear up this coming week so I can get to all my classes since I think they start in earnest now instead of just being organisational stuff. In any case, it has sideswiped me a fair bit, making me miss a couple of morning things and generally just leaving me very tired and more than a little brain-dead. Makes it very hard to work effectively. I tend to watch tv shows or read or something when I can’t sleep… I know that if I work, it’ll keep me up, but if I’m up anyway, maybe I should work? But that would keep me up… well this gets me nowhere. Clearly.

I also didn’t go to basketball this week. Wasn’t feeling up to it in the slightest, but I probably should have just forced myself, I know it would have made me feel better. Even if it was just for a bit. One day this week I managed to get all the way to the station before realising I had left my wallet and phone at home. Back I trudged. Sigh. I didn’t see Kyoko this weekend either, she was busy.

This week I did a bunch more organisational busy-work. Paying bills, planning things, going to organisational classes, translating course names to see about which classes I should take to fill up my credit requirements… actually, the first class for the technical writing (in English) course was pretty ridiculous, they weren’t very organised at all (I got the Japanese edition of the textbook, although they assure me I’ll get the English one soon). Should pick up next week, though. I also did some domestic stuff, groceries, dishes, cleaned the couch, laundry and shifting things around, that kind of thing.

In an effort to avoid my post title, here are some good things that happened this week! I had a catch-up dinner with Paul at a chinese place in Sendagi (his favourite monja place was closed) and since we’ve been dancing around trying to meet up for a while, it was good to finally connect. I also talked to Ian a bunch this week, passing back and forth some gaming ideas and helping him bounce some work stuff off of me. I did a little work on my banking system, adding in a few little features… it’s gradually getting more and more useable, which is a nice feeling. At some point I should be able to do away with my spreadsheets entirely, although that’s quite a ways off yet. I also managed to talk to Anastasia a little bit this week, although she’s pretty busy. Getting to talk to her always helps. I spent a bit of time making my website more standards-compliant and copied it over to my personal server instead of my Dad’s one… now I just need to get the databases and so on and I should be set. I wrote the basics for my lab profile page (that link will work next week). I got caught up reading Sinfest (which is an awesome webcomic) since I haven’t read it in a little while. I highly recommend… pretty much all of the strips, actually. Start from the start and go mad. I played a couple of missions of Heroes V that I’d been meaning to do for a couple of months. I found a new anime that combines basketball with robots. Awesome. I watched the pilot for Bones and thoroughly enjoyed that – I know, I know, behind the times more than a tad. Sadly in the same breath, I found out that Boston Legal had finished, which is a shame. I’m only up to season… two? I think?

Also on an un-mopey note, I did some work on my LeithComics system for my Dad for his birthday. Happy Birthday Dad! ^^