lowdivergence

As has been impressed upon me many times by schoolmates past and present, I go to sleep far too early for a youth. However, apparently upon moving past youth, which I do consider twenty and up, I am still expected to stay up late and sleep in because I am a University student.

Such a thing hardly makes sense with so many morning classes offered, but they do say it is better late than never. Therefore, I am attempting to stay up late.

But considering I find no reason to do so, having scheduled to make sure I had everything done by a decent hour...

...I find myself bored. What is supposed to be done late at night that cannot be accomplished during the day?

It is interesting to see how people can still treat something said in the most usual, serious manner as a joke. I am less inclined to wonder why 'nice' people suddenly find themselves beating children or shooting passers by in the streets. They were never nice at all.

I had a conversation in the library today. Someone noticed I'd been reading a lot of crime and mystery novels. They asked me if I was studying to be a detective.

I replied that no, I was studying to become a murderer.

It seems they took it as a joke, although my tone was no different from normal. But what if it hadn't been a joke? What if there was someone planning to become the head of the next wave of crime. And yet even if they had told someone they were going to do it, no one would have stopped them. Are we of such a belief as a people that no one could actually do such a thing?

As for me, if I were planning to become a murderer I would be rather put out at the lack of seriousness given to my venture. As it is, I am not a murder, nor do I plan on killing anyone.

Or do I?

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."
-Michael Korda

If Korda is right, then I would assume myself to be on the correct track. However, I suppose it is only natural to find you hating yourself sometimes. And while I do not hate myself exactly, I do sometimes find myself disgusted with how easily I fall into the same things that I condemn others for. This is probably my fault for actively looking for examples, but it is disconcerting. Especially when I try to separate myself and the self in society, and find that myself is the one to blame for such thoughts.

Business and career fairs are, while not exactly summer festivals, what are keeping me busy through the summer months. Though I suppose if given a choice there is not much else I would find to entertain myself.

While normally not one for quizzes such as this, I found this to be surprisingly accurate. I did not expect something so impersonal and judgmental to hold any sort of truth, and yet there you have it. Of course, it is something of a fortune cookie idea, where it is vague enough to be applicable to most anyone. Though I do resent the thought of living in a cabin in the woods. I am not Thoreau.

I feel I should reacquaint myself with the definition of talking.

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"The true gentleman is friendly but not familiar;
the inferior man is familiar but not friendly"
-Confucius

fa⋅mil⋅iar
informal; easygoing; unceremonious; unconstrained: closely intimate or personal

I can see why this man was considered the supreme editor of Chinese culture. He is truly wise beyond his time. According to the teachings of Confucius, I appear to be a true gentleman.
And yet that leaves me no sense of accomplishment.

I regret not being able to spend the entire night at the Rikkai sleepover, but I thank you for the amusement all the same.

The classes at Hajime are surprisingly competent, and the professors have been very helpful in working out credit transfer and helping me to pick up where I had left off. As I was on an accelerated course schedule, I was close to graduating from my last business university, but Hajime has complexities in their program. These focus on some aspects I had not previously covered, while not teaching other types of classes I have already completed. It will likely take yet another week before everything is officially transferred over and credits settled into compatibility, despite the willingness to help I have found in the faculty here. I now understand some of the reason many people I know, or know of, have gathered here.

( Screened to everyone except Niou-kun )

Though it is a regular habit of mine to keep a journal already, I suppose one viewable by many will provide a useful communication system.

I am Yagyuu Hiroshi, a transfer student intent on studying business and economy. Though it does not feel like I am a new student, if only because of so many recognizable names. I understand that the school is on break right now, so many of you are not here, however it should be the best time to settle in and become familiar with the school and surroundings.

De wa, yoroshiku onegai itashimasu.*

( Private )

(ooc: *Please take care of my humble self (See why I didn't use English? XD;) BTW Gakuto-mun here)