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Things I have done:
Yeah, Friday evening after work I was feeling a bit off (perhaps some of you may have noticed ;P) and bussed over to Aruru (I refuse to call it 'Diamond City' on the account that it sounds like a destination in Pokemon) to see if Narnia was still showing. It was, so I picked up a ticket for the next showing, which started at 21:40. And then I just wandered around the mall to kill time. The movie was good - not nearly as hit-you-upside-the-head-with-the-bible as I remember the book being, but I haven't read the book in rather a while. When the movie let out at 12:15, I went outside, realized that I really didn't want to call for a taxi (what with me being cheap and afraid of phones and all), so I walked home. Across town. And of course it decides to start raining. Took nearly an hour, 'cause it was coldish and I was gimping, but overall it wasn't so bad.
Earlier in the week, Andrew mailed me to say that his oldest was entering kindergarten, and wanted to know if we could meet up for lunch sometime. So on Saturday before he had to slave away at Gak I went up to the Daij Starbucks and got lunch and just talked about stuff. Was a lot of fun. I'm so bad at keeping up with my Nova friends... part of the problem is the schedule thing. Now that I'm on a normal schedule, I have very few friends from my first job that I can hang out with, as they all have days off on weekdays. Plus I'm just bad at keeping in touch with people. ANYWAY. Had fun, and we're going to try and make this something of a monthly thing now. I'd like that. :)
(Hehe, this is where I'm going to show my geek colors.) One of the things I have tacked up to my wall, right over where I sleep, is the Time magazine obit for Henri Cartier-Bresson. When I'm in one of my 'i'm going to take my cameras around and shoot everything in sight' moods, I try to look for what he called the decisive moment - "There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative." I'm shit at it, all told, but it's something to reach for. So when I found out mid-week there was an exhibit of his work in Osaka, and that it was ending on Sunday, I knew where I'd be spending my weekend. It was fucking brilliant. I saw every photograph of his that I know by heart, from the one that DEFINES decisive moment to the kid with the wine bottles, and about a zillion I'd not seen before. I sooooooooo need some prints.
Not much more to be said here, really... except that I completely lost my voice, we had way too much fun shouting out 'Baby Got Back' and attempting songs in languages we didn't really speak. Oh, and some stupid-ass punks with mullets tried to steal Laura's keitai.
Sunday evening Alyson got her stage debut as an extra in a conto show at Base. Of course Laura, Vanessa, and I were there to see her in all her shining glory! Unfortunately, most of the conto sucked. There were only two good ones (out of EIGHT) and ALL OF THEM were WAY TOO LONG. (I was doing the math in my head by the end... the average was about 22.44 minutes!) Fortunately, Alyson was in the best of the bunch. Yay! Oh, and the audience had some of the worse manners EVER. Several girls around us were mailing the entire time, the chick next to me out and out fell asleep, Vanessa saw girls IN THE FRONT ROW applying their make-up... not to mention the countless comings-and-goings of people. Afterwards, we met up with Alyson and she told us all about her day as we got dinner.
Apparently the locks got changed on the building Saturday, and the workers failed to leave a spare key with anybody who, you know, WORKED IN THE BUILDING. So when I arrived at work this morning at 9, I found the shutter rolled down over the main entrance, and everyone hanging out in the garage. And by everyone, I mean all the teachers and several of the kids who'd been dropped off early. Eventually the worker-people came and gave us a key, and we all went inside to start the day.
And now, randomness.
One of my babies - Koki (the twin) has a MAGICAL BELLYBUTTON! Normally, it looks like a perfectly run-of-the-mill innie. But if you poke his tummy right below it, IT TURNS INTO AN OUTIE. When I showed this to Suzuka (my co-teacher), she was properly owned and rushed over to see if the same phenomenon existed with Mayu (the other twin). And yes, that was my first thought too, when I originally discovered it. But sadly, Mayu has a totally futsuu bellybutton.
Yeah, Friday evening after work I was feeling a bit off (perhaps some of you may have noticed ;P) and bussed over to Aruru (I refuse to call it 'Diamond City' on the account that it sounds like a destination in Pokemon) to see if Narnia was still showing. It was, so I picked up a ticket for the next showing, which started at 21:40. And then I just wandered around the mall to kill time. The movie was good - not nearly as hit-you-upside-the-head-with-the-bible as I remember the book being, but I haven't read the book in rather a while. When the movie let out at 12:15, I went outside, realized that I really didn't want to call for a taxi (what with me being cheap and afraid of phones and all), so I walked home. Across town. And of course it decides to start raining. Took nearly an hour, 'cause it was coldish and I was gimping, but overall it wasn't so bad.
Earlier in the week, Andrew mailed me to say that his oldest was entering kindergarten, and wanted to know if we could meet up for lunch sometime. So on Saturday before he had to slave away at Gak I went up to the Daij Starbucks and got lunch and just talked about stuff. Was a lot of fun. I'm so bad at keeping up with my Nova friends... part of the problem is the schedule thing. Now that I'm on a normal schedule, I have very few friends from my first job that I can hang out with, as they all have days off on weekdays. Plus I'm just bad at keeping in touch with people. ANYWAY. Had fun, and we're going to try and make this something of a monthly thing now. I'd like that. :)
(Hehe, this is where I'm going to show my geek colors.) One of the things I have tacked up to my wall, right over where I sleep, is the Time magazine obit for Henri Cartier-Bresson. When I'm in one of my 'i'm going to take my cameras around and shoot everything in sight' moods, I try to look for what he called the decisive moment - "There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative." I'm shit at it, all told, but it's something to reach for. So when I found out mid-week there was an exhibit of his work in Osaka, and that it was ending on Sunday, I knew where I'd be spending my weekend. It was fucking brilliant. I saw every photograph of his that I know by heart, from the one that DEFINES decisive moment to the kid with the wine bottles, and about a zillion I'd not seen before. I sooooooooo need some prints.
Not much more to be said here, really... except that I completely lost my voice, we had way too much fun shouting out 'Baby Got Back' and attempting songs in languages we didn't really speak. Oh, and some stupid-ass punks with mullets tried to steal Laura's keitai.
Sunday evening Alyson got her stage debut as an extra in a conto show at Base. Of course Laura, Vanessa, and I were there to see her in all her shining glory! Unfortunately, most of the conto sucked. There were only two good ones (out of EIGHT) and ALL OF THEM were WAY TOO LONG. (I was doing the math in my head by the end... the average was about 22.44 minutes!) Fortunately, Alyson was in the best of the bunch. Yay! Oh, and the audience had some of the worse manners EVER. Several girls around us were mailing the entire time, the chick next to me out and out fell asleep, Vanessa saw girls IN THE FRONT ROW applying their make-up... not to mention the countless comings-and-goings of people. Afterwards, we met up with Alyson and she told us all about her day as we got dinner.
Apparently the locks got changed on the building Saturday, and the workers failed to leave a spare key with anybody who, you know, WORKED IN THE BUILDING. So when I arrived at work this morning at 9, I found the shutter rolled down over the main entrance, and everyone hanging out in the garage. And by everyone, I mean all the teachers and several of the kids who'd been dropped off early. Eventually the worker-people came and gave us a key, and we all went inside to start the day.
And now, randomness.
One of my babies - Koki (the twin) has a MAGICAL BELLYBUTTON! Normally, it looks like a perfectly run-of-the-mill innie. But if you poke his tummy right below it, IT TURNS INTO AN OUTIE. When I showed this to Suzuka (my co-teacher), she was properly owned and rushed over to see if the same phenomenon existed with Mayu (the other twin). And yes, that was my first thought too, when I originally discovered it. But sadly, Mayu has a totally futsuu bellybutton.