Ahhh. Curses. Another month and no updating. I'm sick with a cough and throat like a plague of frogs, which will do no good on Monday when I'm meant to be doing a voice acting job. Have been working my lady-balls off, and yet feel like I'm not doing enough. Also, went to my first Bikram yoga class and made it through the entire 90 mins without ( Read more... )

Happy New Year to everyone!  My New Year didn't actually start until January 2nd as I allocated January 1st as an official day for doing absolutely nothing constructive whatsoever, so I stayed in bed until 1pm and then watched movies the rest of it.  Although, if you take into account that for the first 7 hours of January 1st, I was actually ( Read more... )

It's cold and raining.  Boo.

I was a little rushed off my feet the last week.  Despite coming up with the grand plan to reduce my working week to Tuesday-Friday, I've ended up working 6 days straight, having taken up a short-term contract teaching at Waseda University.  It's quite fortuitous that I was offered the job as I had just worked out my ( Read more... )

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 big shout out to hils who was wonderous enough to send me a lovely bunch of postcards of York, along with a `The Odyssey` which I need to read for a story I have planned. The postcards have been an excellent source of conversation in class. `The Odyssey` got: "A little pretentious, aren`t we?" as a comment when it was spotted on my desk ( Read more... )

This week has been one of pain. Recovering from snowboarding took about three days. I had a very uncomfortable yoga session on Wednesday, but it did the trick. By Friday I felt quite normal so I went swimming. I wasn't even going that hard yet I still managed to pull my inner-thigh muscle. It's still a bit tight so I won't be going crazy with ( Read more... )

Well, I's still unemployed thus have no money BUT ( Read more... )