Juggling, hostess bars, and the end of March
My accomplishment of the week - I can swap two skittles (clubs - but isn't 'skittle' cuter?) from hand to hand pretty reliably, at least starting from the right (I'm so disgustingly right-handed, it's terrible). I'll work on the left tomorrow, if my arms don't fall off after S.E.T. (and hopefully kickboxing, unless my body wimps out on me like last week). There are too many creepy people that loiter at the park by my house. I think I'm going to have to find somewhere else to practice. ^_^;
And now, a cut full of boring philosophical introspection.
As I've gotten older, there's something about myself that I've come to stop hating and start kind of appreciating. I am, and have always been, drawn to things that I'm absolutely terrible at. For example - I am graceless and suck at directing others, but I love to dance, and especially to lead. I get debilitating stagefright and I have no talent whatsoever, but I absolutely love acting, and I love entertaining people...perhaps even especially groups of people, much as they terrify me.
To the issue at hand: I am horribly uncoordinated, but MAN, I love juggling. It took me an hour to be able to pass one skittle from hand to hand reliably, although Roy could do it as soon as I handed one to her, and anybody else prolly could too. But I still love it. And I like that, for all the good it never does, at least I go out and challenge myself, sometimes.
Maybe the appeal lies in doing something that doesn't come naturally. When those damn skittles come back down into my palms, it just feels so..."TAKE THAT!" and for once I can feel like I'm not the kind of person who drops things and runs into doorways all the time. HAHA~ Lame, but true? Maybe.
...On another note, still no word from the Land of the Rising Sun. Friends of ours are taking a ridiculously awesome, and ridiculously expensive, class at Cal State to get their TOEFL certification. It sounds cool, but so much money. And I've been full-time teaching for almost TWO YEARS. -_-;;; So I really don't know how much of that $3,000 it'd be worth.
All my students are going back to Japan from the summer. I've got two classmates and a friend (GO GO GO, hughes_maes, you're awesome<3) in JET, and another going over on a trip...ugh. Don't know what else I can do to make myself hire-able. Apparently work experience counts for exactly nothing.
Today in a fit of frustration I looked up some hostess bars - yes, they employ foreigners, and no, nobody has yet quite stolen my idea of a real Eikaiwa/Hostess hybrid. Haha! Although, it would be better if it was more maid cafe and less hostess bar, since I don't know how much English you can study when you're piss-drunk. (Although to a point, I think being intoxicated/tired/otherwise impaired can make a foreign language easier.) If I had a little more business acumen and a lot more Japanese proficiency I'd set something like that up over here - can you imagine how much the burgeoning weeaboo population would pay for Asian maids to teach them Japanese?! AHAHA. YOU'RE SITTIN' ON A GOLD MINE, TREBEK!
...However, like selling lolita clothes, I talk big, but the thought and business sense that goes into actually taking such brutal advantage of the weak and wealthy is beyond my moral and mental capacity. (If anybody better suited goes out and makes a billion dollars stealing that idea, could you send me $3,000 so I can go get my TOEFL certification? ^_~)
...Thanks to Starbucks, I bet I'd be a pretty good hostess. I have a great memory for names and faces and I'm BOMB at pretending to be interested. Yuuuuuuup. That's the job for me.
Now if I just didn't hate men and cigarettes. Any English-speaking jobs for crossdressing hosts?
...And so anyway --- now that I'm done babbling and griping about whatever (forgive me, I'm always grumpy when it's hot), here's the rest of March! On into April, and ZOMG, I have actually written up a con report for poor Conji, can you believe it?!
03/27: Lunchtime at the Nijiya. Oh, veggie bun. How I miss thee.
03/28: The next Death Note movie??? LOLOLOL~ (You can thank Roy for this awesome joke ^_~)
03/29: Kimmy! So that's what you've been up to...
03/30: HAHAHAHA~ Should have just left it like that.
03/31: And then, Jero! This was my first time being in the beautiful theatre they have over in Little Tokyo. O_O~ And the show was super cute~~~ But I think I babbled about it already. ^_^;
...And with that, the end of March! O_O OH MAN.
...I should delete something like 85% of this stupid post. Ah well. That's what LJ-cuts are for.
And now, a cut full of boring philosophical introspection.
As I've gotten older, there's something about myself that I've come to stop hating and start kind of appreciating. I am, and have always been, drawn to things that I'm absolutely terrible at. For example - I am graceless and suck at directing others, but I love to dance, and especially to lead. I get debilitating stagefright and I have no talent whatsoever, but I absolutely love acting, and I love entertaining people...perhaps even especially groups of people, much as they terrify me.
To the issue at hand: I am horribly uncoordinated, but MAN, I love juggling. It took me an hour to be able to pass one skittle from hand to hand reliably, although Roy could do it as soon as I handed one to her, and anybody else prolly could too. But I still love it. And I like that, for all the good it never does, at least I go out and challenge myself, sometimes.
Maybe the appeal lies in doing something that doesn't come naturally. When those damn skittles come back down into my palms, it just feels so..."TAKE THAT!" and for once I can feel like I'm not the kind of person who drops things and runs into doorways all the time. HAHA~ Lame, but true? Maybe.
...On another note, still no word from the Land of the Rising Sun. Friends of ours are taking a ridiculously awesome, and ridiculously expensive, class at Cal State to get their TOEFL certification. It sounds cool, but so much money. And I've been full-time teaching for almost TWO YEARS. -_-;;; So I really don't know how much of that $3,000 it'd be worth.
All my students are going back to Japan from the summer. I've got two classmates and a friend (GO GO GO, hughes_maes, you're awesome<3) in JET, and another going over on a trip...ugh. Don't know what else I can do to make myself hire-able. Apparently work experience counts for exactly nothing.
Today in a fit of frustration I looked up some hostess bars - yes, they employ foreigners, and no, nobody has yet quite stolen my idea of a real Eikaiwa/Hostess hybrid. Haha! Although, it would be better if it was more maid cafe and less hostess bar, since I don't know how much English you can study when you're piss-drunk. (Although to a point, I think being intoxicated/tired/otherwise impaired can make a foreign language easier.) If I had a little more business acumen and a lot more Japanese proficiency I'd set something like that up over here - can you imagine how much the burgeoning weeaboo population would pay for Asian maids to teach them Japanese?! AHAHA. YOU'RE SITTIN' ON A GOLD MINE, TREBEK!
...However, like selling lolita clothes, I talk big, but the thought and business sense that goes into actually taking such brutal advantage of the weak and wealthy is beyond my moral and mental capacity. (If anybody better suited goes out and makes a billion dollars stealing that idea, could you send me $3,000 so I can go get my TOEFL certification? ^_~)
...Thanks to Starbucks, I bet I'd be a pretty good hostess. I have a great memory for names and faces and I'm BOMB at pretending to be interested. Yuuuuuuup. That's the job for me.
Now if I just didn't hate men and cigarettes. Any English-speaking jobs for crossdressing hosts?
...And so anyway --- now that I'm done babbling and griping about whatever (forgive me, I'm always grumpy when it's hot), here's the rest of March! On into April, and ZOMG, I have actually written up a con report for poor Conji, can you believe it?!
03/27: Lunchtime at the Nijiya. Oh, veggie bun. How I miss thee.
03/28: The next Death Note movie??? LOLOLOL~ (You can thank Roy for this awesome joke ^_~)
03/29: Kimmy! So that's what you've been up to...
03/30: HAHAHAHA~ Should have just left it like that.
03/31: And then, Jero! This was my first time being in the beautiful theatre they have over in Little Tokyo. O_O~ And the show was super cute~~~ But I think I babbled about it already. ^_^;
...And with that, the end of March! O_O OH MAN.
...I should delete something like 85% of this stupid post. Ah well. That's what LJ-cuts are for.