So, I think I’m going to achieve some sort of sticker-based goal before I head away. Which is nice. Yes, the target number of gym/running sessions has been reduced, but have thrown myself into it head-first for June - hoping to come out of it with better fitness and a reward of a nice out with Rish. Which I’ll earn if I do today, Friday and Saturday. Doesn’t have to be running, or a particular exercise, but I do have to get myself going pretty much every day. Thursdays don’t count - Japanese in the evenings makes it a long enough day without tacking a morning gym session on. Maybe if it was summer I could cope.

Maybe if I wasn’t staying up way past my bedtime chatting online, I could cope, too :p

I don’t know my blood type.

This revelation was such a shock to my Japanese tutor in last week’s class. We were continuing with basic conversation things, and got to horoscopes, and then to “blood type” and personality based aorund this.

I tried to give blood once, and passed out. It was hoped that I would find out my blood type then, but since that was a failure, I haven’t gone back.

This morning I went for the blood tests reccommended by my doctor when I was sick the other week…. skipped breakfast, because fasting was required for one of the tests, and proceeded to black out… didn’t fall off the chair, it just all went black. I could still hear the nurse saying to me “just one more” as she took the blood for the fifth tube… just one more I repeated back as it went black…

I made it though, drank a foul-tasting Coles orange popper…. and then drove to work.

Just finished my first Japanese lesson since year 11 (1999)… it’s starting to come back to me! And I’m feeling so tired, but exciteable… kinda like I’m doing somehting new, but at least I know that I can be capable at it if I keep trying!

The tutor was talking about whether we need to get text books or not - she suggested that if we want to know the grammar etc, then texts are the way to go, and if we just want to travel, phrase books are better. But I’m a nerd/ speech pathologist who NEEDS TO KNOW exactly what each little particle is for… then I can manipulate it more :) I want to control my language, not be restricted. Long way off, I know… but yay!

Oyasumi!