August 26: One Good Surprise, One Less-Good Surprise
I woke up this morning and, lo and behold, there was HOT WATER!!! YESSSS!!! Taking a hot shower was sooo nice... Short though, because I slept in a little longer than usual. D: (still got to work on time)
Dorm breakfast was various pork mixtures (pork and green onions, pork and konnyaku, maybe another I can't remember) with miso soup and rice. I took my HOT SHOWER!!! after eating and left for work and caught my usual bus.
At work, Kabutoya-san wasn't there, as he usually isn't when I arrive (he typically leaves after me), which was fine, because I had a paper to read. The paper went pretty smoothly, for a first-thing-in-the-morning read. I found that clenching my leg muscles periodically while reading staves off sleepiness! Could this be the secret to reading papers!? It doesn't work perfectly, as the act of doing so distracts me from reading the paper, but it was much better than having to fight off sleep to be sure. I actually managed to read the paper in a semi-respectable amount of time, which was unfortunate, because Kabutoya-san wasn't in at 10 either. And so I read over all three papers again briefly, and then looked up some relevant stuff on Wikipedia until 11. Still no sign of him. D: I asked Nishida-san if he had seen Kabutoya-san today, and he said "No, he has some Ph.D entrance exams (or something like that) today". Oh, lovely! "And tomorrow he has a friend's wedding to go to, so he won't be in then either." I was laughing by this point. >_< I told Nishida-san that I hadn't actually been left with any work, and so he said he'd call Kabutoya-san for me after lunch and try to get something for me to do.
At lunch I ate Java curry again, because nothing looked appetizing. There was hiyashi tan-tan ramen, which I recall being more tepid than properly cold, and also rather salty, so curry it was. D: Oh well at least it's quite cheap.
After lunch I played handiball. We have new interns in the PIG group, and they played handiball for the first time today. On a completely related note, I can only now sort of understand why my coworkers were praising my rather embarassing handiball skills when I started. >_< Oh well, it was all good fun anyways, and there was an added "random" element to the game this time haha.
In the afternoon Nishida-san got Kabutoya-san to call me, and Kabutoya-san gave me some work that is incredibly far outside my ability, but was a very concise assignment to communicate over the phone. D: I'll see how it goes, but I don't forsee it going well, as it is to derive the equations for and implement a recommender using an estimation method I don't know, that uses math I don't know to deal with probability distributions I don't know. O_O Maybe I should have left him alone on his day "off" (writing exams is hardly "off") and farted around on Wikipedia until Sunday... (just kidding)
That kept me occupied until 6:30, when I left so that true and deep despair couldn't settle in haha. I liked my comfortable little-fish pond, where there the scariest thing was Collapsed Gibbs Sampling, but alas, it is no more... D:
I walked home in the light rain and ate dorm dinner of MORE pork (at least it tastes good), some kind of chikuwa salad with a coleslaw-esque sauce on it (the flavour was kind of... tricky...) and cold soba noodles with broth (yum). I retired back to my room, where I ended up watching clips of comedians on YouTube for the better part of the evening. I started to make another vocab sheet for Japanese, but my left elbow is going a little wonky today, and so it was really hard to hold the paper still haha. D:
Anyways, I'm a little shy on sleep, so I'd best get to bed now. Night!
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