Every so often, I have off days - days where things aren't particularly great or just boring and annoying. Then I have Bad days - Days where I not only feel as though I'm not improving at what I do, but actually get worse at the simple things I could do before, and those failures make me doubt the stuff I thought I knew perfectly, until it all piles up into one huge spiral of crappy feelings. Today was one such day.
First thing I was given this morning was 100 questions in Japanese that I had to answer. They weren't even particularly tricky questions (actually they were downright bizarre some of them) and it was all for the sake of improving my Japanese. After 4 hours I had answers to less than half. Never mind the fact they were all in Kanji that I had to spend time looking up the meanings of, the real issue is that when the sempai corrected the answers, most of them were wrong on some of the simple issues I thought I understood. I don't know if it was that coupled with the tiredness, or just his "unique" teaching style, but like I said, the self hating spiral piled up a bit. The last time this sort of thing happened, well, lets just say it wasn't my proudest moment.
I managed to keep my cool this time though and just ploughed into the next lot of work, which ended up being a simply and easy to handle bit of illustrator work. Going back a bit to lunch time, met some new people who took me to the same authentically Japanese restaurant for lunch. They were really nice people, and very interested in England, which gave me some new material to try and translate (badly).
Ah well, maybe tomorrow will be slightly better.
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