doing nothing
...I think this is the first Saturday I haven't had anything at all to do in the better part of a year.
I slept for 12 hours, then woke to find double packages--both the nice skincare stuff I had ordered and a plurality of the stuff I'd left at Mom's house for Christmas, which she spent a fortune sending off (instead of the prunes she sent fancy popcorn (she probably didn't like it) and protein drinks...), so it was like a double bonus! I even went to the store and succeeded at both not buying a bunch of crap I didn't need AND getting a new shower curtain, since the old one was grody and had a big rip in it. Then I watched the Dog Whisperer and vegged out. Later I get to go back to bed. ...I'm torn between finding it a lonely waste and incredibly calming. Wish the douche next door would turn down his music, though.
I also need to figure out what to say to the people I've been helping out make a textbook; it is based on US TV shows and thus involves some cursing and references to sexual content; it was meant to go to the printers next week but instead the other teacher consultant guy is like "oh, we need to take out this bad language" and they're pushing the print date back to Septemberish. Now, the fact that I was planning on not being here in September notwithstanding, I don't like the idea of whitewashing adult themes out of a textbook made for adults--especially since the book requires you to watch shows that are just as bad. Maybe it's American of me, but I don't want some other person telling me I can't hear or see or read certain things, no matter the reason. Now, I wrote all this back on Friday, but I was busy and am just checking the reply now--'oh, sorry, we are just changing a few references, it's nothing major, blah blah blah.' When it comes down to it, it doesn't really matter--it's not like it's going to teach anyone English, no onr here will ever learn English because they're hoodwinked by society to think that the language is to difficult (though NOT to think that they're too dumb...it is a subtle but important difference). It just irks me, because it's stupid and I cannot agree with it. Maybe that's what I should say?
Being angry in Japanese is hard...
I slept for 12 hours, then woke to find double packages--both the nice skincare stuff I had ordered and a plurality of the stuff I'd left at Mom's house for Christmas, which she spent a fortune sending off (instead of the prunes she sent fancy popcorn (she probably didn't like it) and protein drinks...), so it was like a double bonus! I even went to the store and succeeded at both not buying a bunch of crap I didn't need AND getting a new shower curtain, since the old one was grody and had a big rip in it. Then I watched the Dog Whisperer and vegged out. Later I get to go back to bed. ...I'm torn between finding it a lonely waste and incredibly calming. Wish the douche next door would turn down his music, though.
I also need to figure out what to say to the people I've been helping out make a textbook; it is based on US TV shows and thus involves some cursing and references to sexual content; it was meant to go to the printers next week but instead the other teacher consultant guy is like "oh, we need to take out this bad language" and they're pushing the print date back to Septemberish. Now, the fact that I was planning on not being here in September notwithstanding, I don't like the idea of whitewashing adult themes out of a textbook made for adults--especially since the book requires you to watch shows that are just as bad. Maybe it's American of me, but I don't want some other person telling me I can't hear or see or read certain things, no matter the reason. Now, I wrote all this back on Friday, but I was busy and am just checking the reply now--'oh, sorry, we are just changing a few references, it's nothing major, blah blah blah.' When it comes down to it, it doesn't really matter--it's not like it's going to teach anyone English, no onr here will ever learn English because they're hoodwinked by society to think that the language is to difficult (though NOT to think that they're too dumb...it is a subtle but important difference). It just irks me, because it's stupid and I cannot agree with it. Maybe that's what I should say?
Being angry in Japanese is hard...