My Google Search History Now Contains Some Questionable Things
Trying to get all the mixes burned to my computer and setting up the playlists with the correct songs in the right order. It's taking a long time, but it also functions sort of like a mini time machine that takes me back to various years in college, high school, and even earlier.
Also, if you read this, Meghan, you are a goddess when it comes to mixes.
Packing is going at a really good clip, except I'm having to borrow some clothes from my mom to get through the week.
I'm feeling so anxious and so full of dread. I know that it's partially my ambivalence toward leaving as a result of having to leave behind what I have here, and that I'm worried about my job (the "living in Japan" part is the reward, and doesn't really concern me that much--I just want to like teaching and, more importantly, do a good job of it). Also, I'm being realistic about what it'll be like for the first few weeks/months. I won't be able to make friends immediately, and knowing myself, I won't feel comfortable for a little while with everyone. That's how it worked at Soka, at UD, at Lieberman's, at Temple. Just gotta trust myself to take my time and get to know people, because eventually, I'll love all of them just as much as I love all my other social circles.
But it'll be a little lonely at first.
Thankfully, I have a couple of friends in Osaka, and a few more if I expand my radius out to all of Kansai. Then, I've got a shit ton of peeps in Tokyo, as well as Leslie in Kyuushuu. So it won't be total isolation or anything. Besides, I'll be so busy and caught up with life and work and all that I hopefully don't have to deal with long bouts of being lonely.
Basically, this will be a challenge of my will and fortitude, not to mention my ability to process delayed gratification. As Inoue-sensei said, I am rather good at challenge.
Also, if you read this, Meghan, you are a goddess when it comes to mixes.
Packing is going at a really good clip, except I'm having to borrow some clothes from my mom to get through the week.
I'm feeling so anxious and so full of dread. I know that it's partially my ambivalence toward leaving as a result of having to leave behind what I have here, and that I'm worried about my job (the "living in Japan" part is the reward, and doesn't really concern me that much--I just want to like teaching and, more importantly, do a good job of it). Also, I'm being realistic about what it'll be like for the first few weeks/months. I won't be able to make friends immediately, and knowing myself, I won't feel comfortable for a little while with everyone. That's how it worked at Soka, at UD, at Lieberman's, at Temple. Just gotta trust myself to take my time and get to know people, because eventually, I'll love all of them just as much as I love all my other social circles.
But it'll be a little lonely at first.
Thankfully, I have a couple of friends in Osaka, and a few more if I expand my radius out to all of Kansai. Then, I've got a shit ton of peeps in Tokyo, as well as Leslie in Kyuushuu. So it won't be total isolation or anything. Besides, I'll be so busy and caught up with life and work and all that I hopefully don't have to deal with long bouts of being lonely.
Basically, this will be a challenge of my will and fortitude, not to mention my ability to process delayed gratification. As Inoue-sensei said, I am rather good at challenge.