(Written, ohh, last week sometime. Why do I post hardly anything I write?)Adam's in New York this week for workish purposes. I had originally planned on joining him, but since I'm trying to pay off my student loan by May, and since I'm also loading up my savings account in anticipation of us moving in June, I decided not to go. Seeing as there's an ( Read more... )

Because I told peach_salsa I'd upload this. Also, in honor of hangyourhalo's homecoming:


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Week One of my job is complete. Short and complete, I should say. When they said part time, they meant it. It's a strange sort of letdown to get up at 6 AM, put on business clothes, plow through the traffic, hear my heels clomping down the marble hallway of the lobby floor, press the up button and wonder how many people had touched it before me and ( Read more... )

Sometimes I get the strangest questions at work. I have to wonder how people who are not grammar nerds like yours truly field some of this stuff. On Sunday, my last lesson of the day was with a guy who wanted to know why we use the verb "be." I wish I could have recorded my response. In retrospect, it sounded really philosophical. The guy seemed to ( Read more... )

I'm about 400 entries behind on my Friends page. One of my 108 New Year's Resolutions actually reads, "If you miss over 3 days' worth of Friends entries on Livejournal, don't spend the time it takes to catch up." Yes, friends, I am a big enough loser to make a resolution about Livejournal. Anyway, I guess I should honor the resolution and work on ( Read more... )

As one usually does when one writes a really fucking long LJ entry at midnight and has it unceremoniously EATEN by the servers, I just want to announce that I wrote a really fucking long LJ entry at midnight and had it unceremoniously EATEN by the servers ( Read more... )

Oh, and you know what's keeping me sane on a night like this?

1.) I have the best fiance ever.

2.) If all goes as planned, I am going to THAILAND, next month.

Still must stumble out to kitchen to put away groceries bought in drunken stupor at 2 in the morning. Ugh. Why am I still up? Many apologies for wasting what is probably your daytime.

So, you know that whole stupid-foreigner-in-Japan-getting-drunk-off-wine-and-white-russians-she-didn't-pay-for-and-then-stumbling-to-the-supermarket-and-not-finding-wheat-bread-and-stumbling-home-at-2:30-and-eating-white-bread-on-your-futon-before-waking-up-in-4-hours-to-teach-8-lessons-in-your-native-language feeling ( Read more... )

The Voice room is where students can come for general English conversation. Going in there at the beginning of the lesson period is a little like walking in to a party to which you aren't sure why you were invited, or, further, how any of the other people came to be there, either. There are low-level and high-level students, students who have lived ( Read more... )

Today was a national holiday in Japan. There are so many national holidays here. I forget the name of this one, but it involved all the 20-year-olds dressing up in kimonos. Everyone else in the city, it seemed, was wearing jeans and waiting in line at Mister Donut ( Read more... )