Day 43

Oops.  I clearly set my alarm for 7:30, 7:35, 7:45, and 8:00; I promptly disregarded all four of them, woke up at 8:30, got a shower/shave in, and then arrived at class just in time for the day to begin.  One more day of this term left, then either starting the next level, or doing more of Minna no Nihongo II (which is actually my plan).

I was going to eat lunch with friends at Kitsutsuki ("Woodpecker"), but there weren't any tables left; I did eat from the restaurant anyways, but it was my standard issue bento (which I have recently found out does not differ too much from the set meal at the restaurant, save for the lack of miso soup.  The bento is 150 yen less, but you don't get a drink or soup, and the portions are somewhat smaller.

After classes, a meeting with Declan about the Mt. Fuji trip.  That man seems to be doing anything to get the trip canceled.  He was down talking the climb for the first few minutes, and maintained that air for the rest of the talk.  It's probably because he's been forced to do it so many times, but he just is unnaturally angry (and irrationally so) about many things in general.

On a completely unrelated note, except for a few wind parts and annotations, I completed the first movement of my concerto tonight, and it tops out at roughly 10 minutes.  Many concertos are only slightly longer than that, but I'm not going to laze out at this time - expected running time for the entire piece is right now at 30 minutes.  I've got plenty of work ahead of me - finishing part 1, writing parts 2 and 3 (which I already know how they will go) and deciding how to write part 4.  That will all come in time.