over there, on the right, that you should have a look at if you have time.
It's late at and I'm feeling not at all witty so I'll go for now.
Friday, May 27, 2005
Sunday, May 15, 2005
got the link
working-don't know why, but the top one doesn't work. Skip it and go to the next one.
Hiroki is getting (I hope) his last teeth. This leads to the inevitable putting things into his mouth to scratch or to try and stop the pain or whatever but this last week I've constantly had The Snit (I believe it was called) going through my mind (this plus the music). Instead of stop shaking your eyes or stop sawing the furniture, it's been "Stop chewing on the furniture!" I guess that the kitchen table and his wooden chair are just the right height for him to gnaw on...
I should go wake him up as he has been asleep for a record 21/2 hours now, and I want to be able to sleep tonight.
Talk more later!
Hiroki is getting (I hope) his last teeth. This leads to the inevitable putting things into his mouth to scratch or to try and stop the pain or whatever but this last week I've constantly had The Snit (I believe it was called) going through my mind (this plus the music). Instead of stop shaking your eyes or stop sawing the furniture, it's been "Stop chewing on the furniture!" I guess that the kitchen table and his wooden chair are just the right height for him to gnaw on...
I should go wake him up as he has been asleep for a record 21/2 hours now, and I want to be able to sleep tonight.
Talk more later!
Friday, May 13, 2005
today's soundtrack
features Paul Simon and I believe the Greg Kihn Band. Keep the customers satisified and something about they don't write songs like that any more. Really makes me wonder where the hell that comes from. I'm not going to try and fix the link for today. Shitty day, glad it's the weekend. write more later. xox
Wednesday, May 11, 2005
f#@*in computers
ok, I'm having problems with the linking here. It's really pissing me off because it worked before. I think I'm going to have to make this short as I'm typing with 1 eye closed getting sleepy. Ball of Confusion or whatever it's called had some lyrics along the lines of Ball of confusion (x2) That's what the world is today hey hey. At some point it says something like and the band plays on or and the beat goes on. I think it came out when I was in high school. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Duran Duran. I just checked the all music guide-It's called Ball of Confusion-That's what the world is today. Maybe it is L&R?
Hiroki and I got shot yesterday. He for chicken pox and me for mumps. I don't think I've had the mumps yet, and seeing as I go to elementary schools & kindys, I thought better safe than sorry. Also, one of the other ALTs got the mumps earlier this year. Unfortunately, neither of them were free, so I ended up paying more than 14,000 yen for that. Nice. Oh well.
I'm waiting to see if anyone wants to join me in posting here. I thought we could all post a little or even put articles of stuff we are reading. I think it would be interesting.
Here is some info about where I live...ok the other eye is closing now gotta go
Hiroki and I got shot yesterday. He for chicken pox and me for mumps. I don't think I've had the mumps yet, and seeing as I go to elementary schools & kindys, I thought better safe than sorry. Also, one of the other ALTs got the mumps earlier this year. Unfortunately, neither of them were free, so I ended up paying more than 14,000 yen for that. Nice. Oh well.
I'm waiting to see if anyone wants to join me in posting here. I thought we could all post a little or even put articles of stuff we are reading. I think it would be interesting.
Here is some info about where I live...ok the other eye is closing now gotta go
Saturday, May 07, 2005
Shock
Wow, eh? Altho I'm sure that nobody will be reading this as it has been so long since I updated you've probably all given up in disgust, right? Well, anyway...
I have had so many things goingg thru my mind lately, including songs. So many songs go thru my mind in a day, it's unbelievable. Just today, I had The Pursuit of Happiness' Beautiful White, Ball/ World of Confusion by ?(I want to say Love&Rockets but I don't think that's right) and John Prine's Picture Show going thru my head. It's not like I've listened to any of them recently(like within the last 5 years...) Mystifying. And these are only songs that I notice. Of course, there are the songs that I don't know the words to, or even the songs that aren't in English, even more mystifying.
Well we had holidays this week-Golden Week. It's not actually a week of holidays, but it started last Friday, Green Day. (You can read about it here ) I ended up having 2 days off before that as I had lost my voice, and when your job is to be the human tape recorder, it just doesn't work if you can't speak.) This week I went to work on Monday and Friday. Nice!
We spent alot of time with Hiroki's cousins during the break. We took care of Luna on Wednesday. She is about 5 months older than Hiroki. They took a bath together and afterwards, when I was drying them off, we had a talk about various body parts. Luna made sure that Hiroki still had a "tail" and Hiroki, for his part, was pulling on his tail, saying, "Luna, you don't have one of these?" I thought it was pretty funny.
That's enuff.
I have had so many things goingg thru my mind lately, including songs. So many songs go thru my mind in a day, it's unbelievable. Just today, I had The Pursuit of Happiness' Beautiful White, Ball/ World of Confusion by ?(I want to say Love&Rockets but I don't think that's right) and John Prine's Picture Show going thru my head. It's not like I've listened to any of them recently(like within the last 5 years...) Mystifying. And these are only songs that I notice. Of course, there are the songs that I don't know the words to, or even the songs that aren't in English, even more mystifying.
Well we had holidays this week-Golden Week. It's not actually a week of holidays, but it started last Friday, Green Day. (You can read about it here ) I ended up having 2 days off before that as I had lost my voice, and when your job is to be the human tape recorder, it just doesn't work if you can't speak.) This week I went to work on Monday and Friday. Nice!
We spent alot of time with Hiroki's cousins during the break. We took care of Luna on Wednesday. She is about 5 months older than Hiroki. They took a bath together and afterwards, when I was drying them off, we had a talk about various body parts. Luna made sure that Hiroki still had a "tail" and Hiroki, for his part, was pulling on his tail, saying, "Luna, you don't have one of these?" I thought it was pretty funny.
That's enuff.
Friday, May 06, 2005
i suk
I really suck at keeping this updated, don’t I? There’s so much I want to do and write about but in the end nothing gets done. (read too tired at the end of the day to sit down and do this.) I have recently been checking out other blogs of people who live in Japan, and they are much better than I am at keeping it up to date as well as linking things, etc. I’m going to try and write more. I also will try and put more pix in as it would be more interesting.
For those of you who don’t know, I am at the same schools as last year. This was a total surprise to all of the foreign teachers as well as the Japanese teachers. I think it’s the first time that we didn’t get moved around. I still haven’t figured out if it’s a good thing or not, as a lot of teachers got moved and the atmosphere has changed quite a bit. I haven’t been very happy so far this year but I remember feeling the same way at the beginning of the year last year. It’s good that I can stay with some of the same students but now I feel even worse when I don’t know my students names. We have over 300 students at the junior high school and I’m lucky if I get to teach them once a week. (I’m supposed to go to every class once a week, but if I am away at an elementary school or kindergarten that day, or the schedule changes due to something –happens a lot- then I miss teaching them for the week. Also, they have their names on their desks written in kanji, so I mostly can’t read them. Do these all sound like the excuses they are?
For those of you who don’t know, I am at the same schools as last year. This was a total surprise to all of the foreign teachers as well as the Japanese teachers. I think it’s the first time that we didn’t get moved around. I still haven’t figured out if it’s a good thing or not, as a lot of teachers got moved and the atmosphere has changed quite a bit. I haven’t been very happy so far this year but I remember feeling the same way at the beginning of the year last year. It’s good that I can stay with some of the same students but now I feel even worse when I don’t know my students names. We have over 300 students at the junior high school and I’m lucky if I get to teach them once a week. (I’m supposed to go to every class once a week, but if I am away at an elementary school or kindergarten that day, or the schedule changes due to something –happens a lot- then I miss teaching them for the week. Also, they have their names on their desks written in kanji, so I mostly can’t read them. Do these all sound like the excuses they are?
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