Botheration

[telyanofcelore]

Tried to order a Werder duckie, because this week of training sucketh mightily and I want it ever so much, but they're charging 33 euros shipping to Japan, and so no duckie for me. It's a six-euro duck! I shall have to find another way to acquire it.

Well. I suppose training's really not that bad. Just nine hour days sitting there listening to what

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[nessaniel]

I am so sorry that you are that tired and drained but overall I love your descriptions of your adventures in Japan!
Btw I received the plans for the symposium so if you still want to/have time to meet up in Tokyo after the 15th (till the 18th) that would be wonderful! =D

As for that duck: you only want the duck right? Not the special frog-thingie, right? Because I could search for it in our local shop they have football goodies from every club so perhaps I could bring it to our date? And yes I know that sounds like blackmail XDDD

[telyanofcelore]

I REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT TO! That said, I don't know if I'll have Saturday off - I definitely won't have Friday off. I'll probably get off /early/ on Saturday. Let's see if we can work something out, it'd be too tragic if we were actually in the same country for once and couldn't meet up. Maybe we could meet halfway? Might help a little with trying to get the transit time in...

...duckie... Yes, duckie! I mean, obviously frog too, because the frog is lovely, but duuuuuck. Duckie duckie duckie.

[nessaniel]

Okay, I'll buy one! xDDD

Oh and I am so sorry, of course we can meet halfway! Although I read that you are in Nagoya my mind somehow decided not to proceed that information...xDDD
Is Shizuoka in between both cities? I'm sorry, I really don't have time right now, I need to pack and I need to memorize the presentation and hundreds of other things so hopefully we'll work something out till Saturday!!! *_*

[telyanofcelore]

Hey, no problem, lol. I'll have a look and see where a good halfway point is. (okay, actually I'll probably ask my Japanese friend where a good halfway point is because I am incredibly lazy... but I will find one!) Good luck with all your packing, and I am sure that your presentation will go brilliantly and you will be luminescent.

*grins*

[telyanofcelore]

Yeeeeah. It seems to be a proper Japanese adventure! Down to the staggering exhaustion, actually, it's only a proper adventure if you're three hours away from hallucinations (actually, that happened on the trip out - I ended up falling asleep on the final leg of my flight because after I saw someone's head turn into a giant cat head looking at me, I refused to keep my eyes open, lol).

Yup, Breasts Club Vanilla. It will never not be funny. This is really a very pornographic area - lots of posters of naked ladies, lots of ladies propositioning you (if you're a dude, apparently - all my fellows have been propositioned, it really freaked them out), and for me, a doujinshi shop down the road.

Yeah... in theory, there's a supermarket down the way, but damned if I can find it. Might have another look tomorrow, actually - this morning, as soon as I am done with tea and breakfast, is devoted to the laundromat. NEED SOCKS.

[zatchmort]

Socks and vegetables are very important! I hope you are successful in your quests. Also, I had no idea there were such neighborhoods in Nagoya; clearly I got an incomplete impression of the city by only hanging around Sakae and Oosu.

I'm happily surprised to hear that the textbooks and lesson plans are sound; my impression is that pedagogy in Japan is mostly a bit dodgy by Western standards.

For what it's worth, given my initial impression of you as someone with firmly, hmm, classical sensibilities, I'm always amused when your vocabulary takes a turn for the Anglo-Saxon. ^___^

[telyanofcelore]

Oh, yes. It's like one of those little alleys in Sakae that you turn down and Just Keep Walking. Except it's a lot more of them, and a lot less well-kempt... I am much amused.

Yeah, it's really quite good - I suppose you never had Asai-sensei, but the teaching style is much of a muchness with the way my level of Japanese was taught at Nanzan. It's quite good, actually! Maybe because it's a private company...

*grins* Perhaps it might help to think that I have extremely Classical sensibilities. As in, Greek. Or Roman. It's all graceful statues until you look at the pottery and the frescos.

[zatchmort]

Huh. Maybe I'll check it out when I arrive. By which I mean almost certainly not, lol.

Ah, it being a private company might actually have a lot to do with it. Do feel free to share details; language pedagogy is my primary field of study now (he says as if he were some kind of Adult or something).

Haha, that does make sense. Also, even the Victorians weren't all that Victorian in private, as the experts have told us. XD

[telyanofcelore]

This is what a study of literature nets you: a thorough understanding of just how un-Victorian the Victorians were.