This semester is coming to an end after I finished all my exam. Even though I enjoy roughly two weeks of holidays, freedom is not yet ready for me. Instead, I think my life will be fully scheduled until next year probably near April, where I might be busy again for school work.

Some of you might be curious what I have been up to and why I prefer to be busy and choose not to rest. The reason is that I have jobs offered by teachers and I am willing to take the chance. They will pay me for my services and I believe the salary isn't that low, but these are pretty temporal jobs.

The first one is translation for the drama department. I have to face a lot of exam papers and translate the candidates' answers in written report. It's very tedious when you are actually translating something which is not what you are majoring. But thanks to Google and dictionaries, they helped me a lot in dealing with strange terms. They allowed me to leave out the terms which I really can't translate, so my work here is pretty simple and the payment is pretty nice too.

The second job, oh boy, is one killer, but the payment is promising with good salary and, if necessary, hostel and transportation is provided free (I have to go by train, but they'll pay for the transportation fees) IF I have to stay in another college for the work. This job is a big projects among universities and I am doing the statistic, collecting and very tiring jobs, like download 1GB of early 20th century newspaper and record the information needed. I'll be going through a lot of books that people wouldn't read nowadays and doing a lot of reading...

The salary will be enough for me to buy a Chinese zither, which I wanted for so long. I estimated that there will be sufficient money for me to buy a drawing tablet, which I had wanted for some time. Why? I haven't been drawing for a long time and my enthusiasm for such creation is fading. There's nothing I really want to draw and I think having such a tool wouldn't help me much on creating good art. Sometimes I think I am a bit too old, living in a very unsuitable surroundings and too timid for art. It really depends, I believe...so probably there won't be any drawing or art from me within these months, I am sorry...

I have been trying to earn some money for so long, and these are the chance. I know that it will be harmful for my artistic mind since these jobs are very 'dead' and 'lifeless' (except for the translation part), but in such a world where finding a job is so hard and money just can't support you much, I consider these jobs as 'commission', even though they are not drawing or whatever, but they have more knowledge for me than I could learn on drawings in such a skill.

Also, I don't know why I need a new skin for my journal. As long as my message is clear, this is what I care most. My mind is currently dead for aesthetic thinking, but I still enjoy good arts submitted in this website.