iadorespike ... Thank you for the tulips! You are such a darling ( Read more... )

I feel like my life has been sucked into this job and nothing exists outside of it. I haven't swum in 6 weeks! Losing my train pass and gym card may have something to do with it *g* I just need to go there and tell them and fork out money for a new one ( Read more... )

Yay! I have backed up my graphics folder! Boo! - that I haven't had any time to actually do anything in ages. I did just make this icon though as I am very pouty about v-gifts only lasting a couple of weeks.

Er, I hope bluespirit_star and berlinghoff79, you don't mind I incorporated your work - I wanted to put all my 51st gifts together in a happy icon ! This birthday was ( Read more... )

I had a pretty quiet day today - It was nice though. This evening I went to see a play - All I Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten - a good performance and quite touching in places, although the message is a bit too direct (I prefer my deep and meaningsful meanings to be subtler!) and dare I say didactic in style. Script wasn't inspired, but I ( Read more... )

I went to Tokyo with two colleagues on the weekend to attend JALT CALL - Japan Association of Language Teaching Computer Assisted Language Learning. It was interesting, although it varied in the quality of the presentations. It was wonderful to just GO somewhere different from Nagoya! And I have always loved riding the shinkansenIt was great to ( Read more... )

After work I went to the dentist, who was aghast at my story of fighting fever for two days without painkillers or antibiotics for the infection left after my tooth was pulled and my wild gesticulations demonstrating degrees of pain experienced and my utter bravery in the face of it. When I realised, Doh! I SHOULD have been given a script for some ( Read more... )

Tooth extraction hurts! Well, after the fact. Got an upper right molar that had broken off extracted this morning. I feel a bit spun out from it all. *reminds self to down some pain killers before work today*

Work has been incredibly time consuming. It has eaten up all my evenings in this first week of lessons, not to mention all the behind the scenes work associated with admin and meetings before classes and that is only going to increase from here on in. I'm afraid I haven't had much more than an occasional peep at the flist.

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I just heard the kerosene (parrafin oil) truck song - it drives around the street delivering oil - and I went down to get my 18L drum topped up ( Read more... )

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