I still find myself adjusting to living back in the UK. It is weird. Like, today I was just doing a little tidying in the room I'm renting in this house with the wacky landlady and I noticed a small crack where part of the wall meets the ceiling. And my thoughts upon seeing this, having lived in Japan for four years? "That's where a mukade might ( Read more... )

A few things of note:

Was woken up at 4am by the cat going crazy (crazier than usual, anyway) in the living room. And then, I don't know how, but I just knew... So I turned on the light and sure enough she was playing with a medium sized ORIENTAL KILLER CENTIPEDE, aka. mukade. [Tim, weren't we just talking about a Cat/Centipede death match?] That ( Read more... )

Had first mukade of the season in my kitchen last night. Wasn't too horrified this time around, as last year's 20cm beast was enough immunisation to poisonous-centipede-fear.


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First proper day back at work today, after all the holidays last week. I was a bit zombified for some reason, and kept doing things wrong in the classroom. It wasn't a big deal, I just think some days are like that. And when you're standing in front of 35 bored students reading lines over and over and over again from the textbook, and they didn't ( Read more... )