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Two weeks slip by me again. I've been so ridiculously busy it's not funny. Now I should, in theory, have a bit more spare time to fill - as the exams are starting now/soon my classes are dwindling, so my hours open up and I can finally start sorting out some photos to upload while I'm at school with a decent internet connection.
Otherwise my main time-suck these last couple of weeks has been writing the English exam for my mountain school, doing last lesson plans, and the Shizuoka Chronicle. If I'm stupid enough to take on the ShizChron job again next year I will have a few things to say to the editors about how they do their jobs. I should not have had to spend so much time going through pages and pages of little grammar, spelling, and punctuation corrections. That's what the final edited articles deadline was for - FINAL edits of articles. I was taken on as the LAYOUT editor, not the committee monkey there to be bossed around.
Socially, my next few weekends are looking interesting. This coming Sunday my JTE has invited me to her house for lunch; the next weekend is a possible trip up to the IKEA in Yokohama, followed the weekend after by a trip in the opposite direction to Osaka for an Irish JET St. Patrick's day. Then my mom arrives in Japan on Monday the 25th, so that weekend I'll be heading up to Tokyo to collect her from the airport.
And she will be bringing me a shiny new laptop, hopefully. I think my brain has melted and is just about ready to drip out my ears at this point - laptop specs are so damn complicated to sort through. For every laptop I've looked at the specifications will be just what I'm after until BAM, the snag. And there's always a snag. The first one I hit was the price. Haha. It was a lovely laptop... for &eur;2000. Dx So I've had to reign in my horns. My upper-limit budget is still a substantial &eur;850, but compromises, compromises. At this point I've been looking at getting a customised laptop for only a little bit more than I could get a commercially produced branded one, and at least I'd know exactly what was in there, down to the screw (almost). I'd really like a solid state drive, but that hikes the price up considerably. Surprise!
Now it's time for me to make my daily anticipated trip outside of school to the convenience store to pick up some lunch. Yay!
Otherwise my main time-suck these last couple of weeks has been writing the English exam for my mountain school, doing last lesson plans, and the Shizuoka Chronicle. If I'm stupid enough to take on the ShizChron job again next year I will have a few things to say to the editors about how they do their jobs. I should not have had to spend so much time going through pages and pages of little grammar, spelling, and punctuation corrections. That's what the final edited articles deadline was for - FINAL edits of articles. I was taken on as the LAYOUT editor, not the committee monkey there to be bossed around.
Socially, my next few weekends are looking interesting. This coming Sunday my JTE has invited me to her house for lunch; the next weekend is a possible trip up to the IKEA in Yokohama, followed the weekend after by a trip in the opposite direction to Osaka for an Irish JET St. Patrick's day. Then my mom arrives in Japan on Monday the 25th, so that weekend I'll be heading up to Tokyo to collect her from the airport.
And she will be bringing me a shiny new laptop, hopefully. I think my brain has melted and is just about ready to drip out my ears at this point - laptop specs are so damn complicated to sort through. For every laptop I've looked at the specifications will be just what I'm after until BAM, the snag. And there's always a snag. The first one I hit was the price. Haha. It was a lovely laptop... for &eur;2000. Dx So I've had to reign in my horns. My upper-limit budget is still a substantial &eur;850, but compromises, compromises. At this point I've been looking at getting a customised laptop for only a little bit more than I could get a commercially produced branded one, and at least I'd know exactly what was in there, down to the screw (almost). I'd really like a solid state drive, but that hikes the price up considerably. Surprise!
Now it's time for me to make my daily anticipated trip outside of school to the convenience store to pick up some lunch. Yay!