So much for faster updates, sorry. It's not that I've been that busy either, just lazy again.

School started a couple of weeks ago and I'm only now starting to get my first real homework assignments. I'm not sure which way I prefer more, the WWU method of giving lots of smaller bits of homework with only a few days to complete them or the Finnish way that gives me bigger projects with more time to complete them. Usually I think I'd prefer the latter option because it leaves me with a lot more free time, but I've noticed that it's also more stressful, because I tend to leave my homework until the last minute and until I finally do start working on it, I keep stressing about the deadline approaching. At WWU, even though I had more work, somehow I wasn't as stressed out because I learned how to do things at a steady pace. I wonder where all those new time management skills I learned disappeared to?

I'm finally taking that Swedish speaking course that I've been putting off for the last three years, and as I had guessed I seriously hate it, even though it's a lot easier than I had feared. The teacher lets us talk to each other in small groups and only occasionally listens in, so it's not that bad even if I keep making mistakes and forgetting my whole vocabulary all the time... I'm trying to refresh my memory by reading Harry Potter och Fången från Azkaban and I think it's somewhat working. Because I already know the story by heart, I don't have to check the dictionary as often.

I'm still getting along well with my roommate, but I'm getting slightly annoyed by the fact that she has visitors almost every night. It's not that they're being really loud or breaking things, but since they tend to hang out in the kitchen, it's a bit awkward for me to go cook something when I want to. In her defense, she did ask me if her constant visitors are bothering me and I said it's okay with me.

In other news, I have serious plans to start writing fanfic again. I haven't written almost anything in eight years (not since my Harry Potter days when Lily/James was my OTP), but I've been trying to work up the motivation to start writing again. I suppose one of my biggest problems has been the fact that nowadays I have so many fandoms (different manga/anime series) that I never stop in one of them for long enough to get any decent fic ideas. Now I've finally come up with an idea for a multi-chapter Kyou Kara Maou fic, which I really want to write. I'm a slow writer in general so it'll probably take me a long time to finish, but I seriously need to do it if I want to get rid of my 8-year-old writer's block.

 This is my third try at keeping a livejournal, if memory serves. I first tried it about three years back, but I never had anything special to write about and I quickly lost interest. I ditched my old journal because it only contained a couple of really old pointless posts and I wanted a fresh start. This time I'm hopefully going to make this work.

This lj is probably going to have a lot of rants about anime and manga in it, because they have been my addiction for the last three or so years, and it doesn't look like I'll be loosing interest any time soon. I used to write a whole lot of Harry Potter fanfiction back in my early teens (that time is long gone by now), but after that I didn't write anything for many years. Now I've finally been getting back into fic writing again, and I will hopefully post my finished fics here. I currently have some fic ideas for xxxholic, and it's likely that I'll write fics for other fandoms as well.

I intend to write this lj only in English, but some entries may be in Finnish if I'm feeling particularly lazy or I have some other reason to do so. Any comments about the quality of my English are welcome because I'm trying to improve my writing.

Until next time.