i stayed up reasonably late on thursday night working on my final EDIT project. i didn't stay up until 5:00am, or something, nor did i have to be up early. i decided that if i didn't wake up at a decent hour (i always have the best intentions, let me tell you) i would skip class to finish the project which was due at 4:00pm friday (submitted over the internet). i slept in a little bit too much, as expected, so i ended up missing class. no big deal, though, i'm not too worried. i've been skipping my EDIT lecture for the past two weeks, and my japanese class on fridays is only one hour instead of two, plus i didn't miss anything worth any marks. so, yeah, all my big projects are over!! i'm so happy.

i was told thursday in astronomy class that i could make up one of my observing logs (i've only done one out of the required three so far) by attending a talk at the U of A about the new telescope being launched eventually, supposedly bigger and better than hubble (it's literally bigger, plus it incorporates infrared, unlike hubble which uses visible light). i don't want to get out my notes that i took of the event, but i think he was the head guy in charge of optics for the telescope. which is… the entire thing? i can't remember. i'm tired right now and don't want to think too hard. >_> anyway, yeah, that was actually interesting to go to.

today after work i went to the national japanese speech contest. it happens to be in edmonton this year, so i figured it'd be a great opportunity. the first place winners in each province/region participated in each category. my japanese teacher was there, along with one of my classmates. it was really fun, and i enjoyed it quite a bit. there were some really good speeches, and i had a couple freaky moments where i realized that i wasn't trying to analyze what they were saying… that i was just taking in what they were saying as regular language. i guess that's a good sign, right? :D

right now i am really tired. i only got a few hours sleep last night. :( i'm going to eat something, play audition, then pass out. what an exciting saturday night…