The weather this morning was amazing.  Just as I left for work, the first rumbles of thunder were heard overhead and the rain came gushing down.  I quickly swapped into my skull-print wellington boots and headed out into the storm.  By the time I got to the station (4 mins) the rain was pelting down and the thunder overhead was AMAZING!!!  We must ( Read more... )

A friend of mine just called me to see if I was okay.

"I just read on "Let's Japan" that teachers didn't get paid," she said, "so I was just checking on you."

Now, there is an element of truth in this.  Two months ago some of the managers were late being paid because money had to be brought in from a different part of the company, be that overseas ( Read more... )

It seems like a good while since I actually made a proper post about anything other than what my favourite colour is, or what kind of mythical creature I may be. I'm not going to promise one now. More a brief summary ( Read more... )

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 ( Read more... )

I've been in a bad mood for about 3 weeks now. Much of it is related to money. I don't really want to go into the whole situation, but I discovered in this month's paycheck that I now have to pay residence tax every month to the tune of about £75. This doesn't seem like a great deal, but when (after various obligations including loans, bills) ( Read more... )

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A good thing I got out of bed and "jacked-in" this morning, otherwise I would have missed the email from my sister offering my super cheap flights home in March. So my details are winging their way to her right now. I also got to have a brief chat on Skype with my mum. Which makes for an unusual start to the day ( Read more... )