Really too tired; if stress could be shown in some sort of level system, I'd be right below "stressed the fuck out" with "fatigue" status effect preventing it from increasing ( Read more... )

Crying like a baby and generally moping around on Thanksgiving after work made up my mind for me that I'd be going to Keokuk on Saturday evening. My family doesn't get together like that often, and for them to be doing it in the same state? No no no, I couldn't take that. I told Will's family that night at Thanksgiving dinner that I needed to duck ( Read more... )

I didn't really think not going home for Thanksgiving would affect me but the moment I turned on the parade I began crying (=_=) If I didn't have these prior commitments with Will's family I'd be driving home now on impulse. I had to work this morning from 7am to 10am, and that wasn't terrible, but maybe I'm just cranky and tired and I miss my mom ( Read more... )

Really, really crappy day at work. I don't want to go into details but it really threw me off my game, and I have to go through the same bullshit tomorrow. (I normally don't work Sundays.) I'm just happy I have awesome coworkers ( Read more... )

Gonna try to type this up as fast as I can before I have to go to work. I've been pushing my alarm back further and further lately even though I tend to work at 11am everyday! I work at 8am on Saturdays though, and normally I have my alarm at :00. Eventually that got pushed back to :15, and :20, and now it's at :30 and I don't even shower before I ( Read more... )

I have money, actual earned money for the first time since I got back to the States. Turns out I'm making the same rate I did before I left for Japan, which is even better because I've heard new hires get 50c less, and I wasn't sure how the company was going to deal with my rehiring. I've been living off tip money for the past two weeks since I ( Read more... )

I'm back in Iowa City and slowly getting into the groove of my new American life. I got off to a rocky start financially but things seem to be looking up now. I'm going back to my old job on Wednesday and might even already be getting a promotion if I choose to accept it. I need to ask around to see if the added responsibilities is worth the pay ( Read more... )

It was a long day of traveling, but I made it home. Culture shock is coming and going, but being at LAX really shook me up. People there are just...rude. I had a series of unfortunate events and the one good thing that happened to me there was when a man lent me money for a bottle of water after the vending machine ate my money. (ToT) Oh, and then ( Read more... )

Okay not really (just let me make the Nirvana reference!), but MAN, packing sucks. I thought I'd be more prepared for this after beginning sending all of my shit home over the past two months, but fuuuuuuuuuck. I really underestimated the small stature of my second suitcase - it is INDEED small. (ToT) Weight isn't an issue with the smaller one (it' ( Read more... )

Japanese television officially annoys the shit out of me. For the past year they have had a marquee on the bottom part of the screen below the picture reminding viewers that on July 24th 2011, Japan will be switching from analog to digital broadcasting. The marquee made me twitch at first, but I got used to it. Now that it's the month for the ( Read more... )