grammar lesson

ことになる。koto ni naru. it was decided (by someone else)
ことにする。koto ni suru. I decided
ものだ。emotional content
→したものだ。 shita mono da. I remember doing fondly
→するものだ。 suru mono da. you should do
→するものか。 suru mono ka. it's better that...
→いいものだ。 ii mono da. i wish that...
→してみたいものだ。 shite mitai mono da. want to...
ように、、、。you ni... the purpose; to indirectly tell; "I told him to..."
なくてもいいだ。nakute mo ii da. you don't have to
わけだ。wake da. because of that / for that reason
のに、、、。no ni... in spite of... (emotional connotation)

things that are on my phone's todo list that shouldn't be

When I walked into Advanced Math today, I saw this written on the chalkboard:

Lonely wanderer thinks
by proof of contradiction
that he can not exist
                — nonexistant

I have been told by my Japanese Literature in Translation teacher to rent "The Twilight Samurai." Apparently, it's... good. Or something.

Alas, I cannot remember the code to my ETH classroom, so I had it on my phone. But it's taking up space. Oh well. Not like I plan to come in when no one else is around. (DELETED!)

I need to buy various books for my Japanese Lit class, still. The one I have written on my phone is Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by the (apparently) marvellous Murakami Haruki (translated by Alfred Birnbaum into English, thankfully). However, I have a much more pressing need to buy Oe Kenzaburo's The Silent Cry.

I'm fairly sure I no longer need my course abbreviations, as I'm no longer buying textbooks, and, more importantly, I've memorized them all already.

Lastly, I have made a reminder to cancel my SMS.AC account online, as I was getting a lot of pesky text messages (friend requests from weird people, etc.). However, they seem to have stopped and... I'm lazy.