Five things, all by themselves

Today was a Good Day.

I had to skip work in order to go to Prof E.'s office hour, but it was totally worth it. Prof E. managed to take pretty much all the fear I had about the Japanese studies part of my exams from me. Quote: "You know, I think these exams are about showing that we taught you well. You'll doubtlessly have other professors who're trying to make your life hard. I'm not into that."
<3

Thus motivated I finally dared to check my e-mails and see what Prof K. replied to my mail about Thursday's presentation. I've been scared of that ever since Friday, because my handout sucked, but all he said was "I assume you'll elaborate and give further examples in the powerpoint?" Which I was planning to do anyway, so yeah.

I also made chocolates. For posterity: Yes, you can totally grind pistachios in a nut mill. If you toasted them beforehand.

Colloquium was ok - got some helpful tipps for properly organised thesis-writing, let's see if I remember them when the time comes.

Best part came afterwards, though. Pretty much on a whim I decided to go to the university choir's "inofficial Christmas concert" because choir! music! and it was lovely. It's so embarrassing how much choir music does for my mood. Listening isn't quite as nice as singing, but still good. ^___^

Yay!