Hard Day's Night.

Well, today's the first of "the" days... the Europeans from ESA are here to finish the acceptance of their multi-million-dollar project. Kinda sink or swim time for the company I work for... although for me it means standing around with my hands in my pocket trying very hard not to look more bored than normal while a bunch of scientists I couldn't give two damns about babble about stability and uniformity and sensitivity and lord only knows what else.

I'm really in the wrong line of work.

No, I'm serious... I hate this crap. I honestly don't get what my father (also a physicist, of course) sees in this stuff... it's so boring...


Ah well. At least I can practice my French a little... my Japanese practice is coming along pretty nicely, in the grand scheme of things. Starting to work on the easy kanji again... although I didn't realize there were so many pronounciations for them (for example, the number "one" can be pronounced "hito" or "ichi"... and there are a lot of sub-voiced "tsu"s that I can't account for just yet... maybe it's a regional thing?). I still have to figure out how to make $10,000 by July so I can go to Japan... I have about $4,000 figured, but that still leaves me half-out. Gotta start thinking about that more.

Of course, no such work will be completed until the French leave on Wednesday. I sorta hope everything goes okay. Only time will tell...

Dun-dun-dun!