Have you missed me?

I’ve been pretty inactive recently and my exam session is to be blamed for that Basically, I’m half-dead right now, having slept for less than 5 hours, four days in a row >_< I should be sleeping right now instead of writing this journal, but I’m too happy that my holidays finally started to simply go to sleep xD

Oh, wait. Before I forget - my birthday is exactly one month from today [25th July] Some of you asked me to mention it in the journal in advance… And did I ever mention how I love getting presents? xD

Another thing – the 200k kiriban. This time the kiriban catcher won’t get a request… but a 3-month subscription Why? Because I’m lazy like that and prefer to spend money on subscription rather than time on request vectors xD If the catcher already has a subscription, he/she can pick someone else to subscribe instead ^.^ Remember to provide me a screenshot of the kiriban. And better be fast – only the first person to note me will count.

Back to the topic - seriously, I’ve never studied so much in whole my life T_T Now I know why Japanology is considered one of the most difficult of all language studies xD

For those always asking for details: I had 5 major exams:
- Linguistics
- Culture of Japan
- East Asia Civilisations [which basically means the history of Japan and China]
- Practical Japanese
- Latin

and three smaller ones [but not easier >_<]:
- Logics
- Japanese Descriptive Grammar
- Kanji

Before even my exam session officially started, I failed Latin and Logics Well, I hate both and didn’t study at all so that was to be expected Eventually I passed them with two Cs [and I don’t need anything better, I’m happy I won’t have to transform sentences from accusativus cum infinitivo to nominativus cum infinitivo back and forth… and perform similar meaningless grammar exercises in that stupid, long-dead language]. And don’t even talk to me about Logics, it’s the most unnecessary college course next to Latin and Philosophy xD

I also had to re-take Kanji test… [and Mullish, don’t you even dare to comment ‘see, I told you…’ or anything similar ] The passing mark was 75%, I had 73% or something like that -_-‘ It’s not that I didn’t know how to write those test kanji – it’s Matsuzaki-sensei who didn’t like how I wrote them xD She’s very strict when it comes to bad writing and I’m having it harder than most because I’m left-handed ==”

Anyways, in the end I passed that test with 86%. Again, it would be well over 90% if only sensei wasn’t that mean xD I won’t forgive her for red-marking some of my favourite kanji, which I practiced with great pleasure… T_T Like the ‘kan’ from kanjiru [this one: 感]. Don’t ask me why I like it that much, I don’t know it myself xD

Descriptive Grammar was a test without a grade, just like Kanji and luckily I passed it without any problems ;]

Last Wednesday I took Linguistic exam, I’ll know the result tomorrow. Apparently the teacher is really strict when it comes to marking our exam papers >_< One month earlier, we were given a list of 89 questions, out of which 8 would appear on the actual exam. Some of those questions were dreadful… Like, who will describe me the American linguistic structural school, give me at least four foundings of transformational-generative grammar or definition of substitution and segmentation in linguistics? I’ll be happy if I pass this one with C xD Apparently many people already failed this exam.

Japanese is whole another story. I took this exam last Saturday… or wait, was it really one exam? No, it wasn’t. Actually, we had two exams one after another, because each of our teachers prepared her own exam -_-‘

First was Uryuu-sensei and her exam consisting of 11 A4-sized sheets of paper [time: 1,5 hour]. I’m sure I got all particles’ tasks completely wrong ;_; Then there was Tatoeba-sensei [called like that because she has to give examples to everything xD ‘tatoeba’ = for example] with another exam, this time only 6 pages long [time: 1 hour]. I was already so tired at that time that I messed the second one up even more than the first xD Passing mark is also 75% but I have no idea how sensei will mark two exams with one grade Well, again, I’ll find out tomorrow.

Yesterday I had East Asia Civilisations exam, which was the only oral exam this year. We knew all the 21 exam topics in advance and had to pick one at random from the envelope right after entering the exam room. I was so nervous that I actually waited for two hours after arriving to the place before gathering my courage and walking into that room xD I knew nothing about China, Ryukyu and Ainu even though I studied really hard But luckily, I didn’t got any of those questions ^^

In fact, I got one of my favourites – ‘the opening of Japan [from encountering first European ships to Meiji restoration]’. I was confident that I’ll get an A, but then the teacher asked me some weird questions about political beliefs of Satsuma daimyō… >_< And in the end I got B+

Last but not least, Culture of Japan. I had this one today and as it was an closed choice test [a,b,c one], it was graded very fast. I got another C xD One point more and it would be B But considering that I opened my Varley book [which is 350 pages long] on yesterday evening, it's quite an achievement xD

To sum up, after a whole month of cramming, it’s finally the holidays Even if I failed either Japanese or Linguistics, it only means that my holidays will be a little shorter [in Poland, holidays of college students last from July to the 1st October - repeat exams are usually in September].

Right now I’m too tired to be angry at myself for not scoring higher It’s a funny experience, ‘cause until now I was usually the one scoring the best, whatever the school subject was Now I’m among the average xD

For those who actually read that far, I’m impressed Have a big glomp I personally don’t feel like reading this entry to double-check for mistakes so if you spot any, feel free to tell me.

Anyways, you can expect new vectors from me soon ^.^ I finally have the time to finish several long-neglected works in progress and maybe start some new projects.

It’s not like me, to post two journals on the same day, but I don’t like having rants/weird topic entries on my front page So here, have some features I remember about suggested features, worry not, but this time I prepared something special [and quick xD]

Today, I want to feature 10 talented artists whom I’m watching ^^ I feel they all deserve much more popularity than what they already get It was difficult to choose only ten to start with *tsuki watches too many people* but I managed to do it somehow

Before you start browsing those awsome artists’ galleries, I have a small announcement If you’re one of my watchers and you started watching me less than 3 months ago, there’s one place I’d like you to visit [if you haven’t done it yet ] [link] It’s an introduction journal entry I made some time ago ^^ If you have a little time, please write a few words about yourself in a comment below this journal [you can also send me a note if you don’t want others to see what you’ve written] ^^ I have too many watchers to remember them all, but I’ll be happy to get to know some of you a little better

Ok, enough talking

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That's all for today, I'm going to sleep

Oyasumi ^.^

First of all, sorry for spamming your message boxes with a meaningless journal entry ^^" I'll probably delete it soon, I just wanted to show you something

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This note left me literally speechless for a minute or two >_< I was all like '... . wtf...?!' I don't know if I should feel amused, irritated, offended, or something else I guess right now I feel a little bit of all three xD What do you think? EDIT: Just please remember that I didn't create this journal to discuss Genkishonen's case - it's not worth the time spent on writing a comment Too many people are getting all worked up because of this guy, I'm not one of them and I don't intend to be. I wanted to share with you a silly note, that's all.

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Of other news, yesterday I found out that I'm not going to take my Kanji exam at the end of June, as I thought, but two weeks from now T_T Apparently my sensei's father is seriously ill and she has to return to Japan as soon as possible... I have two weeks to memorize 500 kanji and around 2000 words that came as the example of using those kanji with other >_< Well, I'm supposed to know all of them by now, but it's hard to remember those less frequently used kanji and their readings Like... it's easy to remember 行く but you can't say the same thing about 資本主義 [capitalism] for example xP I always have problems with remembering all three: the meaning, readings and stroke order...

Oh, well... ^^" I'll pass it Somehow...

I really do. :[

I'm sick since last Monday. At first it wasn't anything unusual, I've been having those frequent but mild infections since I moved to Kraków [I don't know what's in that city that makes my immunity drop so drastically ==" Back in the high school, I was perfectly healthy and never once went to the doctor >_<]. But I started coughing on Friday - so hard in fact that I barely slept during the weekend. There are few things more frustrating for me than going to sleep at midnight and then laying in bed until 5, 6 a.m., almost coughing lungs out, before finally falling asleep. Today I woke up at 8 a.m. after getting like 3 hours of sleep [third day in a row] and finally decided to call and make an appointment with the doctor.

First, I called our college clinic. As I expected, the phone was busy [or should I say 'engaged'? O_o *not sure about the verb*]. I tried several times, the result was still the same. Plus that silly ringtone from the other side that you hear when waiting for someone to pick up the phone was driving me mad.

I gave up and searched Google for a different clinic near my apartment [college clinic is on the other side of the city btw, I'd have to go first by bus, than by tram, than by bus again]. I found one literally by the next corner... but when I called them, I was told that I have to bring something called 'family healthbook' [książeczka rodzinna, no idea how to translate than to English] with me. Don't ask why was that necessary >_< It has something to do with insurance, but I already have a similar document from my college, stating that I'm insured. So why the family one? Sure, we have something like that but as the name suggests, it's quite obvious that it'll be in my parents' home, 500 km away, not with me :[

I gave up again and called college clinic once more. This time someone picked up but guess what? - no more appointments for Monday, doctors are busy up to 7 p.m. [note it was 8 a.m. when I called...]. The lady on the phone asked if I want to make appointment for tomorrow, 1 p.m. Great, why not... the only problem is that I have to meet with the doctor TODAY to get the sick leave for P.E. that my study group is having right now. Sickness certificates don't work backwards ;/ Without a prove that I was sick, my absence won't be excused and I can have troubles with passing that stupid P.E., having that kind of absence in my records.

The only choice I have is to wait until 7 p.m. and go to that college clinic to something called 'emergency service for sick people' where you don't need appointments. And hope I'll get that sick leave - which isn't sure at all, considering that the doctors in college clinics usually assume that you're not really sick, you just want to have an excuse to not to attend classes. Again - great.

You really need to be a healthy person - or have nerves of steel - or lots of free time - to get from Polish healthcare that what you're paying for >_< Otherwise you don't stand a chance.

Ok, I'm done ranting. Someone wants to prove me that your country has it worse?

As some of you may already know, club is holding a contest The contest’s theme is ‘Casual Clothes’. I’ve been asked by one of my watchers, *Klimene to feature it in my journal so that more people would vote.

All the entries are awsome [I found myself four new talented artists to watch thanks to them ] so if you have a little time, please check them out and pick your favourites

You can see all the entries in this journal: [link]

As you can see, they’re divided into three sets, A, B and C. It’s the second stage of voting, so only one entry from every set will make it to the final stage.

Here are the voting polls:
Set A [link]
Set B [link]
Set C [link]

Set B is the hardest one to choose from ^^” It’s the set where you can see *Klimene’s entry [option 3] – but also two other great entries, by ~Aubsneechan [option 2] and ~Eien-no-hime [option 4] who I also watch. That’s why I’m having problems in choosing my favourite one xD Do you? ;]

Anyways, the reason why Klimene asked me to feature this contest in my journal are unfair actions of one of the participants in her set. According to her, this deviant seems to have asked some of his/her popular friends to feature his/her entry and to ‘order’ their watchers to vote for him/her. Example of such journal: [link]

It’s obviously not too polite way of asking for a vote for a friend, is it? O_o

And no wonder that Klimene is upset about those actions, seeing that her own entry [which is much better, however you look at it] is second. Don't get her wrong - she's not asking me to make a journal entry about her entry in turn. All I was asked for is to spread the word about voting and I see nothing wrong in doing that So again, if you like Bleach and the idea of Bleach characters wearing casual clothes, check out contest and I guarantee that you won’t be disappointed with what you see Please enjoy all the entries and vote for whoever you think has the best one ^.^

To do:
- SasuSaku White Kiss: collaboration with *Hybrid22
- [undecided yet]: collaboration with ~Sylwoos
- KakaToshi: collaboration with =outerglow

To finish:
- Konoha High School Style Sasuke [finished, waiting for the background]- Deidara in a suit [lineart done, in the middle of shading]
- Bleach OC: Kaidou Shinya [3 linearts done, waiting to be colored]
- ANBU Kakashi taking his mask off [lineart almost finished]
- chibi L [in the middle of making the lineart]
- Young Tsunade [hair & face already colored, in the middle of making the lineart for the body]
- Itachi in a suit [in the middle of making lineart]
- Naruto OC Hisao waist-up shot [in the middle of making lineart]

I really need some non-Bleach/Naruto related ideas xD