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[doreimi]

Hey, maybe this is going to sound like kind of a silly question, but — does anybody have any advice for staying focused while studying for exams? I really don't remember it being this hard! I mean...sure, it's been a really long time since I've had to study like this, but it shouldn't be that tough to pick up again, right?

Though I guess I ought to know better than to try to study during Cordis, but...

Well, my plans to study during Sanguis kind of got...interrupted! So now here I am, going over everything, and I keep getting sidetracked by one thing or another. Half the time I want to get up and eat, and then other times I want to lie down and take a nap...ugh!

But I really need to stop letting so much time go to waste. I made a promise to myself that I was going to do this! And I've worked this hard already for months and months, I can't trip at the finish line now!

Jeez, maybe I ought to borrow some catnip from the cafe and sprinkle it on my books, I bet I'd pay attention to them then.

(This is actually my first time being a cat for Cordis — I guess you could say it's pretty im-purr-essive that it hasn't happened before now! Especially what with owning a cat cafe and all. I just wish it weren't so distracting!)

Comments

[doreimi]

Is Iris a lot worse? I mean, I've heard stories, but...

[tigerpoet]

From dealing with my friends who are Iris, I feel confident in saying you wouldn't be getting any more done than you are now, at least.

[doreimi]

Mm, I know people can sometimes change their moonblessings — that happened to one of my close friends — but I'll just have to keep hoping that I don't wind up an Iris before I finish exams! That'd really be frustrating, when I'm so close!

[tigerpoet]

I had no idea that could happen...

What year are you in, if I may ask?

[doreimi]

Yeah! It was really weird, for a while we were both Cordises, and then one month he changed during Sanguis instead! It was so bizarre.

Oh, and I'm — um. It's...sort of complicated. Back home, I never got to finish high school, so when I got here, I thought...

Maybe this will sound silly. But I thought it'd be nice to know whether I could've gotten into university. You know? Even if I never got to go. At least I'd know I was good enough to have made it. So that's what I'm studying for, is...I guess you could say the equivalent of that.

[tigerpoet]

That's not silly at all. I'm glad you have the opportunity here to do the things in Prismatica that you never got a chance to do.

I'm the same way, really. Except not with studying, but with things like ice skating and such.

[doreimi]

Oh, yeah? Did you want to be a famous ice skater or something?

[tigerpoet]

Nothing as extreme as that. I was very sickly when I was alive, and I spent most of my winters in the hospital and staying inside as much as possible. It's only as a - ghost, I suppose? - that I've been able to try things like learning to ice skate.

I know it's not nearly as important as something like going to college, but it's something I was never able to do in my lifetime.

[doreimi]

...Winters outside aren't a lot of fun even when you're a ghost, believe me. I mean, sure, you don't get cold, but it's still pretty terrible.

Is that what you've decided to do while you're here, then? Have experiences like that?

[tigerpoet]

I fell enough times on the ice to know that my particular variety of ghost can still get cold. But I still had fun.

Among other things. I'm able to teach again - I missed working with students.

[doreimi]

Oh, you mean since being here? People aren't ghosts here, I don't think. I mean, not really. Not the way they are in other places.

What subjects do you teach? I know here the classes are grouped by subject, I think.

[tigerpoet]

Also before. My situation is a little complicated, and 'ghost' might not be the right term.

Languages and literature. I'm fluent in Japanese, Chinese, and English, and I teach students anywhere from college level courses to ones who are still learning to read.

[doreimi]

Oh, wow! That's really neat, it must be fun to know so many languages.

...Complicated how?

[tigerpoet]

It is, yes. It's allowed me to read many wonderful stories.

Let's see... When I was alive, I was a famous author. Because of a threat to literature as a whole, I was transmigrated into a body of ink and magic. So I'm physical and people can see me, but I do still have the memories of a dead person.

[doreimi]

...Into ink and magic? So, like a magic painting?

[tigerpoet]

Magic book, but you have the right idea.