Sons of Loki

Useless skills you can learn in an afternoon #1: The Coin Walk.

Today’s been a day off – National Foundation Day – and as usual on days off, I have achieved absolutely nowt. Well, I did a tiny bit of Japanese work, I suppose. And learned to coin walk, if that counts for anything. And poached an egg for the first time (delicious!)

I’m a little worried for our upcoming spring break. Okay, Rob’s said we might go hitchhiking with his friend (which will be absurdly fun if we do) and Katie and Chris are coming over for a few weeks, but that leaves the best part of February 17th to April 5th completely void, and I have no idea what I’m going to do. I should just revise kanji in preparation for the Leeds test, which has been dated for May 7th. I could spend lots of money exploring Japan and getting into exciting adventures, just like the old days. I suspect, however, that I will spend it in a coffee-fuelled haze, occasionally writing a page or two for my great unfinished novel (coming in the year 201x) and staring at the walls and occasionally going out and regretting it.

But it’ll be nice to have some time off. It’s just I need a certain structure, a certain regularity to my life, and without it I lose all … whatever it is that I usually have.

I do wonder if I perhaps have something like adult ADD. That’s a big thing to self-diagnose, I know, and everyone would be well in order to tell me to buck my ideas up and get my head down and all that. It’s just … I find it hard to concentrate. I get distracted easily. A lot of things I’ve read about ADD ring bells for me. I ain’t saying that excuses bad grades, or that I don’t need to work hard. It just helps to realise that I possibly have something that means I work a little differently to most people, is all. And, knowing that, I can work around it. Because it’s not like I want to fail. It’s not like I don’t want to be fluent in Japanese.

But I forget what I was thinking about. Back to flashcards.