motivation, songs, and the art of dirt management
Well, today I basically had no motivation to do anything. Only getting about 5 hours of sleep last night had a hand in that, I'm sure, as did only having two classes to teach today. I had to show the immigration office something proving that I'd been paid for January through October for my visa renewal. Actually I was supposed to give them something by the 22nd, but I'd been missing a couple payslips and was trying to get my company to send me another copy or something equivalent. I finally got info in the middle of last week that I should just show them my bank book, which would accomplish the same thing. One slight problem with that - I had no clue where my bank book went. Correction - I still have no clue where it went, but hopefully it'll turn up in the next few days. I came home today for an hour and tore apart half my closet, looking for it, of course adding to the giant mess that's become my cleaning project. In a sense it's a good thing because having a clean closet is always welcome, but it's bad because it's more to clean. But, the project was stopped halfway because in the damnedest of places I found my original copy of the January and February payslips (the ones I was missing). They were mixed in with some bubble-wrap of all things - how'd they get in there?!?
Anyway, I've officially finished everything I needed to do to get my visa renewed. And the higher-ups I was dealing with in GEOS told me the visa was approved, so hopefully this should be a painless process from hereon out. The bad news is this and going to the 100-yen shop to pick up stuff for the kids xmas party this saturday was absolutely all I accomplished today.
I only had two classes today, one of which being a kids class. And this week is a Christmas lesson, so we just play related games the whole time. Talk about not having to do a whole lot. Was supposed to make a phone call - didn't remember until 10, which is too late. I'll have to do that tomorrow. Was supposed to plan for a special lesson week that's happening in two weeks - info just came in on that this week, but by the time I was done running around this afternoon, I didn't exactly have time or energy. Oh well, I promise I'll be better tomorrow.
In other news, I guess I'm officially singing in a band at a xmas party of sorts on the 23rd. Should be an interesting experience - if you're in the area, definitely let me know and come out (hey, I don't know who ends up reading this thing). Gotta make sure I practice and learn words and such. Never been good at memorizing...oh well.
I'm sure I've got a whole lot more to write about, but I can't process it well enough to put it down on paper. If I can sort anything out, I'll write something - although it might not end up being a public entry due to content. It looks like I've already managed to dig myself a relatively deep (and rather wide) hole lately regarding relationships, and I'd rather not make it grow any wider if I can help it.
Unfortunately, though, from this perspective, said hole has acquired the ability to dig itself wider. And digging is exactly what it's doing. Perhaps it only looks like a hole and it'll end up working to my advantage, but I dunno - I've never learned to play well with these things. Like I said, I really can't sort any of this out - the only conclusion I can come to is that I actually just don't know anything. Yikes.
Anyway, I've officially finished everything I needed to do to get my visa renewed. And the higher-ups I was dealing with in GEOS told me the visa was approved, so hopefully this should be a painless process from hereon out. The bad news is this and going to the 100-yen shop to pick up stuff for the kids xmas party this saturday was absolutely all I accomplished today.
I only had two classes today, one of which being a kids class. And this week is a Christmas lesson, so we just play related games the whole time. Talk about not having to do a whole lot. Was supposed to make a phone call - didn't remember until 10, which is too late. I'll have to do that tomorrow. Was supposed to plan for a special lesson week that's happening in two weeks - info just came in on that this week, but by the time I was done running around this afternoon, I didn't exactly have time or energy. Oh well, I promise I'll be better tomorrow.
In other news, I guess I'm officially singing in a band at a xmas party of sorts on the 23rd. Should be an interesting experience - if you're in the area, definitely let me know and come out (hey, I don't know who ends up reading this thing). Gotta make sure I practice and learn words and such. Never been good at memorizing...oh well.
I'm sure I've got a whole lot more to write about, but I can't process it well enough to put it down on paper. If I can sort anything out, I'll write something - although it might not end up being a public entry due to content. It looks like I've already managed to dig myself a relatively deep (and rather wide) hole lately regarding relationships, and I'd rather not make it grow any wider if I can help it.
Unfortunately, though, from this perspective, said hole has acquired the ability to dig itself wider. And digging is exactly what it's doing. Perhaps it only looks like a hole and it'll end up working to my advantage, but I dunno - I've never learned to play well with these things. Like I said, I really can't sort any of this out - the only conclusion I can come to is that I actually just don't know anything. Yikes.