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Lately time seems to have flown away from me. Somehow it's almost the end of September and I'm not sure what I've done over the past few months to account for the passage of time. Obviously, I've done a few things - I've been to Ina, had a few nice trips to the beach, and... done some other stuff, none of which I can recall at the moment.
An interesting attempt to test my Japanese ability was exercised a couple of weeks ago when I went to see Detroit Metal City at the cinema. Here's a trailer:
I rather enjoyed it, and the music was not bad either.
Today is a national holiday and I'm planning on doing little more than popping to the supermarket to get some food. I might attempt to scrapbook some of my odds and ends. I still collect random bits of paper and ticket stubs and they've started to pile up somewhat.
I've been mulling over "the future" recently. I'm not sure I can hack much more time at my current company. They drive me slowly mad with their money-making obsession, though that's what you get for working for a psychopathic corporation. They've recently started to "downsize" schools, and our regional office will be moving into the big classroom in my school because they're cutting costs. I also heard at the weekend that the rest of the Head Office staff are moving to Ikebukuro to cheaper offices. All of which sounds rather worrying. I may need to start putting aside more money just in case I find myself jobless.
Anyway, I've been mulling over the PGCE option. I could come back to England and endure 2 years of purgatory teaching at secondary schools and then be able to teach in international schools, which would net me a little more money and a better quality of life. England sounds (from the news and radio reports I've come across) like rather a nasty place to live at the moment, with the whole boom-bust thing going on, shocking energy bills and too much debt. With the bursary and funding I'd get for teaching I would still need to find extra money every month, which would entail getting a job, in addition to teaching and studying. Sounds a little hellish.
Anyway, I'm going to plan my lunch for the week (it's going to be brown-rice and miso for the rest of the month after a mysteriously large phone bill - money I wanted to buy a new winter coat, or save for the approaching job-apocalypse) then go shopping, cook a bit, study Japanese, and attempt to figure out an idea for an SF story my student requested. Or I may sit on my sofa and stare into space, which seems to happen a lot lately.
I might try to cheer myself up, but I've started the day listening to Joy Division, so I don't foresee much cheering going on.
An interesting attempt to test my Japanese ability was exercised a couple of weeks ago when I went to see Detroit Metal City at the cinema. Here's a trailer:
Click to viewI rather enjoyed it, and the music was not bad either.
Today is a national holiday and I'm planning on doing little more than popping to the supermarket to get some food. I might attempt to scrapbook some of my odds and ends. I still collect random bits of paper and ticket stubs and they've started to pile up somewhat.
I've been mulling over "the future" recently. I'm not sure I can hack much more time at my current company. They drive me slowly mad with their money-making obsession, though that's what you get for working for a psychopathic corporation. They've recently started to "downsize" schools, and our regional office will be moving into the big classroom in my school because they're cutting costs. I also heard at the weekend that the rest of the Head Office staff are moving to Ikebukuro to cheaper offices. All of which sounds rather worrying. I may need to start putting aside more money just in case I find myself jobless.
Anyway, I've been mulling over the PGCE option. I could come back to England and endure 2 years of purgatory teaching at secondary schools and then be able to teach in international schools, which would net me a little more money and a better quality of life. England sounds (from the news and radio reports I've come across) like rather a nasty place to live at the moment, with the whole boom-bust thing going on, shocking energy bills and too much debt. With the bursary and funding I'd get for teaching I would still need to find extra money every month, which would entail getting a job, in addition to teaching and studying. Sounds a little hellish.
Anyway, I'm going to plan my lunch for the week (it's going to be brown-rice and miso for the rest of the month after a mysteriously large phone bill - money I wanted to buy a new winter coat, or save for the approaching job-apocalypse) then go shopping, cook a bit, study Japanese, and attempt to figure out an idea for an SF story my student requested. Or I may sit on my sofa and stare into space, which seems to happen a lot lately.
I might try to cheer myself up, but I've started the day listening to Joy Division, so I don't foresee much cheering going on.