Monday Morning

I'm currently waiting for the supercomputer to get done analyzing my 3D tire models. Nothing else to do, but blog. Friday I was informed that I could NOT have cable internet at my apartment. Apparently the cable company called up my dorm maintainence people to schedule the installation and the maintainence people told other people who decided that since Toyo does not have a contract with the company, that I could not get internet. I'm glad it's taken 2 and half weeks for them to finally figure this out.

I miss the internet. I purposely have no TV. I just recently bought an IDE to USB converter so I can listen to my many MBs of music files off my old HDD, but I still feel pretty unconnected. Another disturbing fact is that I've received a fair share of calls at the house and most of them have been from people who do not speak English. Still weird. All I do is mumble some things and apologize and then they eventually get it and hang up. What's funny is that the only words I understand when someone speaks are the filler words and people's names. In English, we use "um" and "ah" a lot, especially when we're nervous. Japanese has its own fillers and because people are always nervous around me, they get used a ton.

Last note: My english has gotten really bad since being in Japan. Making full sentences instead of broken phrases is becoming more difficult everyday. I am also getting worse at spelling. I am recognizing Katakana, though, so at least I will be able to pronounce anything foreign (as Katakana is the second phonetic alphabet created so that people could pronounce foreign words).