Day 145(Osaka) : Back on the wagon

I'm back to the blog a few days alter. I took a little hiatus from writing because I was on an extended summer vacation and writing about how I was doing nothing but watching tv was boring the crap out of me. Coming back to school was full of surprises like how there is a NEW strand of flu running around that has already killed 3 people in Japan. The funny thing is they have already started throwing around the word "epidemic" which despite my best efforts scares me. They even put a no holds bar exemption on people who have any signs of the flu, so that they can skip school with no marks against them. The problem is if you skip school you can't stay alone because you might literally die in your sleep from this new strain of the flu... or so they say.

Doom and gloom aside, going back to school was about what I would expect. One homework assignment was collected with a ton of leniency for people who "forgot" or the four students who simply didn't come back to school today. So the difference between me who struggled to get the work done in time and the students who blew it off = 0, nothing, notta, zip, zero, zilch. It's craptastic but what can you do about it. At the very least it should affect their attendance record which puts me for students closer to receiving one of the national scholarships which would give me a legitimate opportunity to attend a graduate school after this is done.

I went out for a few drinks after school but it was fairly lame. There is something about people who weren't in the military not being able to hold their own when it comes to drinking. It's really disappointing too, especially when I get all worked up going out for a night of drinking to have the only other guy cash in after a single beer. How is that too much? Worst part is that I recommended the giant beer for the same price and he specifically turned me down for the smaller half sized beer that he could barely finish. Slash sigh.