Due to the lull I received after finishing part of the web project I had before, I am now concentrating solely on improving my japanese. I’m trying to memorize and understand the numerous japanese sentence patterns. It’s encouraging to read my japanese manga after brushing up on my japanese sentence patterns since I understand more of what I read after learning the patterns.

The effect? I bought several japanese mangas online. Oh, dear. Will I be overwhelmed? Well, at least I know it’ll be more than a month till they get here so I’ll have plenty of time to practice. ^^

I’m also looking forward to translating the mangas for Michan’s manga scanlation site. *rolls up sleeve* I’m ready to polish my nihonggo skills!

Despite the fact that Wordpress released version 2.1 almost 30 days ago, I still haven’t gotten around to upgrading my blog. Why? Well, one reason should be the annoying fact that I upgraded this blog 3 times in the span of two weeks because the WP people released version 2.0.6, 2.0.7 and 2.1 days apart from each other. It was annoying how I’d login to my site and then see the notice up on the Dashboard that a new version is up yet again after I’ve upgraded days before. >.<

But the main reason now would be because on the advent of 2.1, several of the WP template tags have been deprecated and they won’t work with future versions anymore. Most of the tags I use that are now deprecated are:

• wp_list_cats
• wp_list_categories
• get_archives
• and the wonky listing of links in 2.1

Yes, I’m being lazy but I want to see some more changes in WP before I do some remodeling. Or maybe I’ll just wait for new version to come up.

The workaholic is at it again and she’s killing herself with work. I have a deadline on a big project on Monday, then another deadline for that on March 5th. I have my 19 inches tall cross stitch pattern, a pending layout for the Hakkai and Hakkuryu fanlisting, my Japanese lessons, and my normal workload. Yes, I’m definitely on the road to exhaustion once again.

I thought I’d finally have some rest on the 2th since it is President’s Day in the US but it seems our company had other ideas. We’re having communication training on that day so we had to go to work. My reaction? O_O Not that I have superb communication skills, but I can converse in English quite well. I’d rather sleep.

Gah, I need sleep.