Don’t feed the beast!

I’m living proof that chocolate is a drug. I actually decided to go on a diet, actually it’s more like I have decided to regulate what I eat. No more eating out of meals and no more chocolate or pastries, no more alcohol - not even sake - but apart from that I can eat whatever I want. As incredible as it seems this is enough for me to lose 5kg in a couple week. The only negative effect is that I’m in the middle of my withdrawal symptom due to my chocolate dependency, just about anything is getting on my nerve right now. So don’t f**k with me!

Even under the actual circumstances I’m writing my thesis. In the end that’s only getting me even more irritated;Let me explain. I got the most fantastic parents; They let me do whatever I want, while still caring for me, as long as it won’t land me in a wooden box, but sometimes they do piss me off. For example, the most classic situation, let’s say the light-motive of the 2007/08 academic years : whenever I’m finally concentrated on studying for an exams, writing code lines for my projects or writing my thesis ,someone, automatically, comes to me with “I need you to go buy …” or “I need your help with …”. While, just last week, this would have just made me calmly explain to them, that, even though I look like I’m doing nothing on my computer (like usual), I am actually seriously working for something really important; or sometimes I would just go and help them when I knew I got time. Right now this would just result in me listing aloud all the most dirty insults I know in at least 3 different languages (that’s a 1 to 2 hours of insults) to anything that dared approach me (dog, bathtubs and walls included).
Apart from that, by working when alone at home, I could get to a decent point in my writing job, and I might get finished in mid-Mars or earlier.

On my “search for school” I’ve some decent-to-good news : Osaka Prefectural U. responded, actually the dean of the department of computer science in person responded to me. The good news is that they already had similar Foreign students as Master’s students and that, incredibly, the CEO of Nintendo is one of their alumni and some (not too many though) of their students have already landed a job there. OPU is more expensive that Osaka U. or Osaka City and I’m afraid I don’t meet the requirements for Fees reduction right after the admission.
I’ve found a good course in Torino (Italy) as another back-up plan, but I really really really do want to get out of Italy - I can not take that much inefficiency anymore.
Some more Masters in France popped up too, but I still don’t have any exact money related infos about french universities courses.
Alas, I have not heard of any good news from the Kanto region so far. Anyone would like to extend an helping hand to me? The JET program seems to be more and more appealing to me if I want to get on boozing trips with Roaf and southofreality; and of course paying my respect to shizuoka’s cuisine will be on my goals too.