On the advice of many people, most lately by a_lifestyle, I bought the Zombies, Run! App about a month ago and have been happily using it every morning while I do my elliptical.  While the Zombie Apocalypse is not particularly at the top of my list of favorite genres - I'm generally far too squeamish for those types of stories - I’ve found it highly enjoyable ( Read more... )

So it’s been a couple weeks since my last status update so I thought I should do another one - if for no other reason than to set everything down in one place to make it easier for me to plan out my future free time. >.First off - I AM EMPLOYED! Job isn’t all that great, pay stinks & commute is a bit longer than I’d like but, everyone seems ( Read more... )

So Christmas has come and gone - not a spectacular even for my family though we celebrate it a good half-dozen times. ^^;; (Oddly enough only one of those is actually on Christmas - go figure ( Read more... )

So my state is one of the few that offers state health insurance - a good thing, right? However, this afternoon (a month after I applied) I was denied. The reason? Apparently not having a job doesn't make me unemployed... O.o Mind you, when I was in college my state also 'disowned' me when I applied for something or other (darned if I can ( Read more... )

Nothing all that important, have gotten restless and can’t seem to settle to sit and write anything of substance - danged company policy about vacation and anniversaries (can’t take time off after my anniversary until it actually happens so the days I took for Christmas, even though they are after my anniversary, will count as this year’s vacation ( Read more... )

So I know that the Japanese ‘salaryman’ is legendary for his drinking habits, and up until recently my only experience with it has been playing dodging the drunk Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening on my way home after work. Unfortunately the ‘nightlife’ district is basically right on top of the shopping arcade so the drunks are ( Read more... )

So I know that they mean well, but I’m not really all that sure what I should think about the fact that some of my students have started to pry more than usual into my personal life. In other words my love life, they seem rather offended by my (in their eyes) staunch refusal to develop one. (Geeze they’re almost to the point where I could say ( Read more... )

So after the Nagasaki Lantern Festival with its Chinese Emperor’s Parade and the recent Obon Shoro Nagashi I had thought that my teaching would remain uninterrupted until next year’s Lantern Festival… Sadly I seem to have been mistaken ( Read more... )

What I learned today is that I don’t like it when my lesson topics seem to be trying to tell me something. Today I was surprised to see in one of my lessons for the day (and Saturday) involved ‘do, make, take and have’ verb phrases. This particular text has six months worth of lessons so once I hit my six month mark I’d planned all my lessons for ( Read more... )

That is what my manger told me this evening after we handed out fliers in the shopping arcade. I told her she didn’t know the half of it. Of course she didn’t understand, but that’s not the point of this particular entry. Even though attracting attention from the strangest people in the area has been a rather unwanted talent (put me in a room ( Read more... )