It's happening again...

Brain is overworking again.  I have struck upon the goldmine that will be my Arashi!baby fic and did some research tonight and now I bubbling with ideas.  I also got the major urge to start writing my book.  I came to the realization that I should start and get some solid stuff down on paper before things start blurring too much.  Thank god for blogging; I can at least go back and refresh my memory about things but that's only so helpful.  I should reread On Writing Well (or at least the relevent chapters) and make notes and motivational signage to post around.  It's probably very much too early to start hunting out publishers but I should dig up a few of those sources I had to look at in Claire's class and once i get something maybe I can submit to those magazines and if gets published there, I would have something concrete to show.  Where do I even start...

One thing I do know for sure, one chapter will be titled Nippon e Youkoso for all the glorious connotation it brings to me.

I wonder if I could get Claire to help me when I get something concrete written.  Let's see if she emails me back after my random 1:30am-I can't sleep-email update I just sent.  Am I tired enough to sleep yet?  I fucking hope so.  

Tomorrow's schedule isn't as terrible as today's was at least: free, 3-2, 1-3, 3-3, lunch, 2-2.  And then probably another crap load of tests to mark.  Yippee!  So much for being able to be productive in my extra-ciricular writing/activities at work. 

Posted a vieled "do something, you useless pricks" message to the mods at arashirabu saying there needs to be something done about the tags and I would be willing to moderate (since they obviously don't).  Not that mods need to be all present and stuff on a community like that, but seriously.  I haven't seen any posts (mod or otherwise) in that comm from any of the mods except for some rants about tag usage from a year ago.  If you created a group for fanfiction... don't you think you would be a writer?  Not necessarily, of course.  I hazard to guess that maybe 10% of the members actually post fiction but still.  I don't know.  It would be totally pointless to create a new comm when that one is already so established.  Should I just straight up say, "Hey, can you hand this over to me?  Kthnx."  When I look at other comms, ours just looks so forelorn.

日本では、それは迷惑ですよ！おじさん！

Nihon de wa, sore wa meiwaku desu yo!  Oji-san!  In Japan, that's troublesome, gramps!

Fuck... I am baffled by Japanese people sometimes.  I ran into one of the teachers from Daini elementary at Edogawadai station after teaching Keigo today.  She was waving to me as I came down the stairs and it took a few seconds to place her face.  She's one of the nice ones who joins in and "learns English" too when I go to her class. :D  She does grade... 5 I think?  Anyway.  We were chatting about our vacations, she went to Guam and I told her about Kansai.  We sat next to this old man who I thought looked a bit passed out whose phone kept ringing on the train.  I don't care, personally, but it's not something you see often and it was loud.  That was fine... but then he moves across to the other side and fucking is watching me talk to the sensei!  My Japanese isn't that terrible, god.  And she was pretty much just asking me questions cuz I was sleepy and not really feeling chatty but still.  And here I was complaining about not having any meiwaku Japanese stories (except for my crazy neighbour).  At least he wasn't leering at me.

Wrote about 50 words at work today.  We freaking exhausted again and busy.  My free first period was eaten up by a earthquake/firedrill.  Although I was smart and brought my book and/or marking to all my classes and read while the teachers did homework review and stuff.  Two first year classes tomorrow first thing and it'll be pretty much the same I think.  And then a break third but I need to make cards and prep stuff for elementary on Friday.  I also told Kaneko-sensei I would make example sentences for the new words because it's painful watching him try and think of stuff on the spot that half the time doesn't make sense or he doesn't bother to explain to the kids.  I don't know why he bothers... just go through the words and the definitions.  It's not like Nova where they can't use Japanese and you have to explain it with example sentences.  So I told him I would do that.  

I am so stuffed... Keigo's baachan gave me pears today.  One is nearly as big as my head.  O_O