I know things in my life are totally up in the air right now but I can't help but feeling this is exactly what I am supposed to be doing and where I am supposed to be going.... the church really has no idea when and where they will be able to do all the things they want to do, and I have a feeling even if they started building it now it wouldn't be ( Read more... )

I hate being so indecisive.  There are a million reasons for me to just LEAVE this job and yet I find myself loving every day at work.  It's hard when there are so many people to care about.  I know it's going to be insanely hard to leave ( Read more... )

So, last night.... I was killing time rather than doing chores...... and then I stumbled upon a poem I wrote in May..... it described my life as it is right now perfectly.  About how I have so much empty time and I hate it.  There were more poems that were similar.  And it was just.... dang it I cannot spend another year of my life here.  I have to ( Read more... )

I have just been looking online at bilingual English-Japanese work in the US and Japan.  Basically with my current level of Japanese I'm probably going to be doing interpretation or translation work (and translation is only if I get lucky).  I'm not certified level 2 yet, so I can't call myself fluent.  And while level 2 is considered fluent by ( Read more... )

Guess whaaaaaaaat I played shiritori for the first time today during lunch with 3-2 ^_____^

3-2 is the most adorable class on the planet.  Their teacher is new this school year.  He's in his 30's I'm guessing and also has a shaved head.  He's super genki and good with the class.  Like, all the other classes send me back to the teacher's room by ( Read more... )

Got a mysterious form on my desk today for physicals.  I could read like half of it.  Glad I learned the kanji for things like blood and stomach... I have to get to work tomorrow 30 minutes early for a physical :( I will probably have x-rays and blood tests.  Boo.  After that I will be teaching a regular day of classes.  I heart Satosho though so ( Read more... )

Got a call from Aya about tomorrow and we are set to go.  She'll pick me up at 1 and we'll go rent the movie and get snacks, then come back here and enjoy.  Should be fun ( Read more... )

I don't know when it happened, but I realized today that I am kind of over the homesickness that has been bothering me for so long.  Perhaps it's just a false alarm :P but I do feel better.  Maybe it just takes time to get used to something like this.  Even though I was technically away from home at Western it wasn't tihs extreme.  And even during ( Read more... )

Is it just me or does this article seem to be on to something?  I don't think it's totally right, though.  It's only based on the main demographic, and his assumption about women also seems one-sided.  I think he has completely ignored a very large subgroup of nerds, geeks, and dorks (my kind of people!!).  Also he seems mystified as to what is ( Read more... )