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Hi Everyone.
Update from scotland... Well not much has been going on. I am working three days a week now, which is still more than I can handle. Work is a giant stress pit. Last week they introduced a system by which if your son or daughter is absent or late for school, a text message is sent to the parent's cell phone. When this text is sent out, havoc ensues. Angry/Stressed parents then call for the next several hours. See at the beginning of school students register for the morning classes, and this happens over a five minute period. And that's it. If you miss it and bypass the office and your late slip, your parents are sent a message that says you are skipping school. Out of 800 students we regularly are missing between 200-300 of them per day. It is all very inefficient and based on a firm grounding of paranoia.
My new roomates have arrived from Poland. Annetta and Gregorz are fitting into the house very well, bringing a breathe of fresh air into my dull life. Unfortunately, our house has been under construction for six weeks and workers are still coming in daily causing more havoc and stress. I need a vacation...Speaking of which, toofareast is setting up in Istanbul. I'm hoping to have a chance to visit her in April. I was going to island hop the Hebrides but doing it on cycle by myself sounded a bit morose. I'm looking forward to hiking the Speyside way (autumn), a week long hiking trail along the River Spey which wraps by such lovely places as Glenlivet, Tomontoul, etc. :-)
Toshifumi and I are in the midst of calling it quits after three years. I'm really bummed out about it, but I can't do anything about it...the guy has been backpacking around Asia for six months and has called me twice. I would like to have a talk or something but since he doesn't call me we can't. So basically we can't date or break up.
Update from scotland... Well not much has been going on. I am working three days a week now, which is still more than I can handle. Work is a giant stress pit. Last week they introduced a system by which if your son or daughter is absent or late for school, a text message is sent to the parent's cell phone. When this text is sent out, havoc ensues. Angry/Stressed parents then call for the next several hours. See at the beginning of school students register for the morning classes, and this happens over a five minute period. And that's it. If you miss it and bypass the office and your late slip, your parents are sent a message that says you are skipping school. Out of 800 students we regularly are missing between 200-300 of them per day. It is all very inefficient and based on a firm grounding of paranoia.
My new roomates have arrived from Poland. Annetta and Gregorz are fitting into the house very well, bringing a breathe of fresh air into my dull life. Unfortunately, our house has been under construction for six weeks and workers are still coming in daily causing more havoc and stress. I need a vacation...Speaking of which, toofareast is setting up in Istanbul. I'm hoping to have a chance to visit her in April. I was going to island hop the Hebrides but doing it on cycle by myself sounded a bit morose. I'm looking forward to hiking the Speyside way (autumn), a week long hiking trail along the River Spey which wraps by such lovely places as Glenlivet, Tomontoul, etc. :-)
Toshifumi and I are in the midst of calling it quits after three years. I'm really bummed out about it, but I can't do anything about it...the guy has been backpacking around Asia for six months and has called me twice. I would like to have a talk or something but since he doesn't call me we can't. So basically we can't date or break up.