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I had to defrost my fridge last night because the door wouldn't close properly and ended up dropping the eggs. Three cracked so I made tamagoyaki with my (relatively) new tamagoyaki pan tonight and it was a huge failure. I guess it wasn't hot enough or there wasn't enough oil (even though it's a coated pan it still stuck!) or something but it kept tearing and wouldn't roll properly. I scrapped the first two attempts and managed to make a good third one but it only had two layers. :< The recipe from my new cookbook is good though--not so sweet.

Chapter 12 word count: 1,130

As I was saying to

trivialaffair today, it's probably a good thing this is the last chapter because I'm getting reluctant to write it. I don't hate Eq (yet) but I am not so excited to write it anymore? I'll be glad to finish it and move on to something else. Though I have it all planned out already so I don't know why it takes so much effort to get to it. It might have something to do with the heaviness of this last part. I've never written someone dying before.

I didn't have any classes today due to finals but I hardly got anything written. I did some research for Tomoko and talked to Jun. He said he might come back to Toyochu next year but he doesn't know yet; the BOE will make their annoucement in March about placements. He might get moved back to high school. Then I went out for lunch with the 3rd year teachers to this awesome pizzaria. Set lunch included salad, pasta and pizza, a drink and dessert for ￥1550! It's near Basha Michi, where we went last time, on the #1 bus route.

I will write a bit more before Himitsu at 10. I'll try to hit 1,500.

Current Mood: exanimate

I either need to eat less rice or drink less milk or go for a walk or something after lunch because this drowsiness business is not cool. Tomorrow there is no school lunch so I'll go out with the teacher for lunch. I heard talk of everyone going for kaiten sushi but that might have just been the 2nd year teachers. Last term they asked me but I'd brought my own lunch so I stayed back by myself. :(

Today Kaneko had to ditch out of class to have a meeting with the principal and a student's mom. I don't know why they couldn't have scheduled it during a free period or after school but they probably bend over for the parents and that's when she was free. As if she has a job. Whatever. So he left me with the class alone and they just did their worksheets as usual. Half of them didn't do anything but that's normal for the course. Nagase... I love that kid. He tries sometimes but he's kind of bad. Half the time him and his friend (Ito? Sato? I can't remember) just go and wave me over. Then they just point at their blank sheet and expect me to tell them the answers.

N: Miss Heather Teacher! Hint! Hint! Give me hint!
H: Which one?
N: Hint!
H: どっち？
I: どっちって。
N: Here. (Points to the top of the page. Which wasn't what they were assigned to do.)
H: No, it's wrong. Do 1, 2 and 3.
I: Noって。
N: I don't know! Hint! (Continues pointing.)
H: それじゃねぇ！こっち！

And then they proceeded to laugh at me (or with me?) for my manly Japanese. I need to watch less Arashi/male talent. Although Imai-sensei speaks like that too. XD Sigh... Half of the time they just guess words until I tell them it's correct. That was my highlight of the work day.

I found my book. :D Takeru is so pretty~ It's actually his second book and I almost wish I'd gotten the other one because it looked like it had more fun pictures in there rather than him just tromping around in nature. But it might be the only glimpse of Hokkaido I'm going to get and I'm suddenly nostalgic for home. It looks like it could have been shot in Alberta.

I've been waking up later and later. What happened to the days when I got up at 6am just to fuck around on LJ before work? I will make myself get into bed by 11 tonight; it was nearly 1 when I turned in last night. Maybe that's the root of all this.

Oneemans was hilarous. Kame has been hitting the gym hard. It was like his head on a different body. You can't see the nice arms at all in those suits in Kami no Shizuku though. Shame.

I asked Kaneko sensei if he was going to come back to Toyoshiki next year (and the first time, he answered when the first day of school was... -___-;;) and he said he would unless he gets fired by the principal. So even he knows he's on the chopping block. That's kind of good to know. I am a horrible person for hoping the knife comes down but it's really in the kids' best interest, if you ask me.

I really missed Blue Chip coffee right now. You never realize how much you miss a good cup of coffee on the go until you can't get one anymore. And Starfucks isn't good coffee. But at least they don't put your coffee in a paper bag when you ask for it to go.

I want a new mood theme. Maybe I should work on my own. :/ Shukudai theme?

Current Mood: sleepy

I don't know what it is. Dissatisfaction maybe. Mee goreng didn't turn out as well as I would have liked. I bought fresh noodles on sale yesterday but I think they needed to be boiled first because they ended up just sticking together in a doughy lump. :/ The flavour was fine; I loved the burst of sourness of the tomato. I'll be eating left-overs for dinner tomorrow.

My recipe book is awesome. :D I want to try making chawan mushi so badly! I need to get a couple mushi cups so I can try. It's kind of a lot of work though but I want to get the most out of my steamer pot. I will want to take it back to Canada with me because a) there's nothing wrong with it and b) I'll only have to buy a new one when I get there so why not just spend a little to ship it home. Authentic Japanese steamer pot! Or something.

I've noticed my brain has been straying more to "when I leave Japan". Which is still a vague approximation of "next Spring" at best. I am putting more thought into what I'm going to do with myself when I get back and I wonder if I'll really feel satisfied with my life. When I was younger and growing up in Singapore I remember thinking, "If only I was in Canada, I could do/see/buy x, y, z" but then when the time came for us to leave, it felt like back pedalling. Canada is somewhere I'll always be able to go back to (pending funds) and I know it; it's familiar and I'll be able to fit in right away. But going back there... it kind of feels like a downgrade. I didn't really know that's how I felt until just now, I haven't been able to put a label on that. I don't feel that way about Vancouver so much, but definitely about Brampton. I'm actually looking forward to moving "home" and living with my parents again... even if it does mean having to live in one of the seven circles of hell for a few months.

I'm only thinking as far ahead as finishing my B.Ed which, if all goes accordingly, will be 2011. What am I going to do then? I'll be 26. As if that has any meaning or bearing on anything at all.

Picture of the day: Brown Sugar Choco Mushi Pan ♥ Holy crap this picture is huuuuge. o_o;;

I can't get Inoue Joe's "PJ Anthem" out of my head.

Now on the subject of work: I gave the firsties a quiz today about the last chapter of the book (Whale Rider) and basically they just had to copy the answers out of the book. It was mostly to see if they understood the question.

1. Why did Paikea's grandfather want a boy?
Because, "Only a boy can lead the village."

That's what most kids wrote and I told them that you don't put a comma after because.

3. What did Paikea believe?
She believed, "Even a girl can lead the village."

Then they asked me why there's a comma after believed but not because and I couldn't think of an answer that they would understand. I explained that in the 3rd question you could replace believed with said and it still means the same thing and you need a comma in that case. And you know who's speaking. The textbook doesn't specify who is talking (or if it's even a spoken line) for the first question but there's no comma anyway so I don't know why they were putting one in.

Which is more correct?

Because only a boy can lead the village. or Because "Only a boy can lead the village." I told one class if you use quotations, capitalize the first letter of the speech but don't if there aren't any. And we never use a comma after because unless you are inserting something else and that's way beyond their level. That's technical native speaker grammar now. Anyway, it kind of stumped me because I didn't know what best to tell them other than, "Just because." I think I've gone and confused myself even more now.

Current Mood: awake

So I can sit and sift through my flist and read entries before work because the goddamn fucking server won't let me sign in or see anything marked 14+. D<

Aiba looks amazingly feminine is his Frau shoot. It's the eyes. I had to zoom in to see if he was wearing guyliner or not.

I've got at least 4 lessons today, I think, starting with second year right off the bat. Yay. I am. So. Excited. (SHOOT MENOWPLSS.) I can't even remember what they did yesterday. Dude, the exams are fucking next week and this class was only just starting Program 10. It's only reading so it is just review but still. Most of the first year classes finished last week and third have been done for a month. They are going to be so fucked for the entrance exams next year.

If you like me at all, please send things to keep me from getting grumpy at work. I probably won't have any marking today (since I had so much yesterday).

I had a point but it seems to have gone on a wee walk. I'm going to email K today and say hi. He didn't reply about my birthday last night though. It's one thing to need to make time to see people, but firing back an email does not take that much effort. He could even write it in Japanese if he was pressed for time; it's not like I won't be able to understand it. My Japanese is better than his English, possibly. Or comparable at least. But I can definitely code switch faster than he can. I'm not obsessing.

This is why I either need to stop crushing on people, or get into an established relationship where I know exactly where I stand with him. That's what feeds the crazy, because I don't know. GKludfakjdf. Okay. No more on this subject. At least today.

I want more Voice. Eita's hair bugs me (get a fucking brush, dude!) but Toma looks foxy. I like dark hair on him best. :D The girl bothers me. It's her lips. Looks like she OD'd on the collagen a little.

I don't even have anything interesting or noteworthy to say here but I feel the need to post. That's a bad sign.

I've got 4 lessons today if Kaneko shows up. Only two if he doesn't. I wonder if it's going to be another gongshow like December. I don't want to go through that again. It sounds really awful but... They don't pay me enough for that. And I'm not really in a position to make demands, especially not to the school because I'm not even employed by them. And the company could care less what I actually do everyday as long as no one complains about me.

Speaking of the company... I think Tatsuya is coming today. If not today, then Thursday. Tomorrow is a holiday! And as retarded as I think it is having a day off in the middle of the week, I'm kind of glad for it. I can stay up and watch CSI: Miami after Mei-chan.

I spent the day yesterday making up activities for the firsties. I haven't shown them to Imai-sensei yet. She'll probably give me "Heather time" today in class since 1-3 is pretty ahead of the rest of the classes so I think they are done. I think I'll bring my stuff for Go to Sleep, Wake Up and one of the worksheets I made. Last time he gave me crap for using big words and not demonstrating the instructions. I know I have to do that even more for 1st year but I don't half of the time. But they are picking up my instructions pretty easily now. I hope.

I think these drugs are doing something. I wasn't in a terrible lot of pain last night when I was watching Cashmere Mafia (so good!) and wasn't hyper aware of the tension in my jaw so that's a good thing. I suppose I should write mom and tell her the latest as well. I don't know what she'll say, maybe she'll look up some homeopathic stuff. Or say, "Suck it up, tough break," since nothing can really be done. I don't even know. If it's still hurting by next week, I'm going to ask him to do an x-ray. I want to know what the hell is going on.

Current Mood: grumpy

Work was boring. As usual. LJ decided to do maintainence when I was rereading Arashi Family. :< I need to finish that now! Jun said that Tatsuya called him to set up a time to come watch me. DNW! He didn't come last term so I think he will make sure that he comes this term... I told Jun I wanted him to watch a 1st year class. Hopefully he comes when I said next week.

I sold my camera at Hard Off for 5000 yen. It would have been 6000 with the AV cable but I couldn't find it. I never used it so I don't know where it would have gone. But it's off my hands and I've got a few bucks in my pocket now. :D

I'm going to find a new layout for

kotobayori. This one is bigging me. I hate scrolling down to see the first entry. It's really annoying. To me. But I'm the mod and can do whatever I want.

Well, I'm surprised. I thought I would have to fight a lot more with people to get all my shit reissued but it was quite easy to get everything done. Work had no problem with me leaving early. I got a little lecture from the lady at city hall for not updating my card when I updated my visa but otherwise it was painless. I had to sign a statement about what happened to my card and that was it. I paid for the certificate to show I was issued a card for the bank but they wouldn't take it. I thought they would since they do when you open a fucking account but apparently not so I wasted 300 yen there. They just printed me a new health insurance card on the spot and I also stopped in at my doctors and got a new card there too. I'll just have to wait for my bank cards to come in the mail. Knowing Japan, they will be delivered during the day when I'm not fucking here. Nakamura sensei lent me 10,000 yen until I get my bank stuff sorted out so I can at least eat. I'm really grateful.

I'm going to have my last lesson with the 3rd years this week. Nakamura-sensei said he wanted to do something "fun" with them. If my quiz show wasn't fun, I don't know what else to do. I think trivia is freaking sweet but it took me so long to think of questions and write them in a way they would understand. Any suggestions?

No kitty corpse this morning and the cleaner came today so the guts or whatever outside my door is gone. I'm going to get paranoid everytime I hear a cat now. I wonder if there's some deformed one around the apartment.

Sato Ryuta is the guest on Shukudai tonight. That's worth staying up for. :)

I ate too much dinner now my stomach hurts and I'm bloated.

I finally exchanged that frame I bought for one that fits my Shichi Fukujin picture though it took me fucking 10 minutes to find one because the paper isn't a standard size at all. But it works and you can hardly see the 1cm gap on either side between the edge of the paper and the mat. It's hanging in my kitchen now. :D

And I bought a new camera. There goes 25,000 yen! But it was 15% more (or something) points and if I didn't buy it now, I never would. I'm happy (though sad about the money). I should throw up an add on Craigslist to see if I can sell my old on for a few bucks. Would you pay 100$ for a model from 2 years ago that's in good condition? With an extra battery! Or is that asking too much? Hm.

The meeting was kind of stupid but not completely useless. I already know about the new textbook next year but we got to see the fancy digital version and really cool hardware to play with it. Interactive! But it really wasn't anything I didn't already know. But only an hour and not as painful as the last time Tatsuya talked to us. I noticed that on the entire staff of ALTs at IES, there are only 3 women (probably soon to be 2 because one is preggers). Wow. I wonder if that's indicitive of the field in general or just conincidental.

Finished watching Bloody Monday and dfkjdfdd. I totally didn't anticipate that ending! I'm not a fan of such unresolved endings that obviously lead to a possible sequel but this was okay. I'm glad Otoya was safe in the end (even if he only got like 1 line in the finale episode). :D I really, really enjoyed this drama. So many twists that I did not expect and really great acting. I will recommend this to anyone looking for something good to watch. Not to mention the hotness. X3

I'm going to try and write

Current Mood: full

I finished watching Ouran Host Club in a record time of 26 episodes in about 3 days? 2 I guess since it was technically Sunday when I watched the first couple. It was good but I always am left wanting more from these girly romance animes. I don't think I've ever seen one where the characters actually get together. Nor in dramas either, for that matter. What the hell? Anyone have any recommendations? But, that one disappointment aside, it was quite enjoyable. It was the same staff who did Card Captor Sakura so that pleased me very much. I should watch that again... or, for the first time, rather since I've only seen the English (shit) version. Add it to the list.

Gal Sone is on Arashi no Shukudai-kun tonight. That has promise but do I really want to stay up that late? At least it's on at midnight but still...

Quiz Show was alright. Some of the questions were too hard for them and no one answered the Tokyo Bay Aqua Line question right. They just hear "Tokyo Bay" and "bridge" and ignore the rest of it. There is more than one bridge that goes across the bay, children. Aside from some technical difficulties and time constraints, I pulled it off pretty well. I think. I'll have to get Nakamura-sensei to get some feedback from them for me.

I think I'll do 1 practice test and then go to bed. If I do one every day, I'll be ready for my test. :) I'm still a bit anxious because I haven't gotten my examination card in the mail yet. I don't know when it came last time but it's in less than two weeks!

Except that it kind of feels like Thursday to me.

I finished writing Chapter 10 last night. Even though I want to post it now and come home to a flood of lovemail, I'm waiting for

shourai to give it a once over for me. I edited again this morning and fixed a couple things but I would like some feedback on the mood before I post it. I really wanted to get it done because I'm getting stoked to write this again (yay!) and I need to buckle down and study my brains out for my kanji test that's in 2 weeks. I didn't want to leave it that long. 2,500 words is a healthy sized chapter, don't you think? I wonder if I'll reach the 5,000 word mark again in this fic... possibily next chapter, but maybe not. I wonder if I'm not describing enough in order to get to the action quicker. I don' t know. At this point, I want to finish it. Then I can go back and edit and tweak things and repost it again better than it was. That's the plan anyway.

Elementary school today. Yay. Grade 6 and grade 3 and we're just doing review. I need to photocopy worksheets first thing and I've learned that printing in colour and then photocopying doesn't really work. Best to print in black and white. And then English club today. I kind of really don't like these days. I don't get to go home as early as usual. And today sucks especially because while I usually have 5th period free (to rest haha), today I don't. And I'm tired again today. I slept through my snooze again... it's a good thing I set my alarm an hour earlier than I need to be up. Otherwise it would be very, very bad.

It should be called "Johnny's Epic Mindfuck."

Couldn't sleep last night thinking abou it and now my head hurts now from trying to figure out the system. Because, clearly there isn't one.

I also need more useful tags.

Damn January. 3-4 classes a day is not conducive to writing fic or studying at work. D: 16 more days until my test! Fuckfuckfuck.

At least Nakamura-sensei didn't forget about my epic quiz game for the 3rd years so we're going to do it sometime before graduation. :D

Current Mood: confused

Defintely need to go to bed sooner. Even if only by an hour but midnight is too late. Or I need to wake up later? I kind of like waking up early and not being rushed so that means sleep earlier. I feel so groggy and yuck right now. It's compounded by the fact I don't know what's going on today for the most part. Fingers crossed that the 6th grade teachers have forgotten about me and didn't make time for English today so I can spent the day planning/scheduling or something which is most likely going to be changed anyway. They are putting all their focus on the grade 5 this term who are going to start learning English "properly" next year. I don't even see grades 1-3 this semester and I'm actually glad. Those mosters exhaust me.

Yeah. Not sure what to expect today. Elementary school is kind of a crap shoot sometimes. I really hate that I don't know what I'll be doing. Even if it does get totally fucking changed. They've probably made me a schedule like last time. At least I hope so. :/

Finally watched Odoriki SP5. Does anyone else think the vacuum experiment was a repeat? I am fairly certain they did that on an A no Arashi at one point or another. I love Sho in Oxford shirts and v-neck sweaters. Who else heard him squeek 「分かってる！」 I loved it.

Caught up with Bloody Monday. Otoya (aka Sato Takeru) is my new favourite eye candy. Not to mention Narimiya Hiroki. Mmm. But what's with Otoya!? He can't be on the bad side! ... He's turning 20 this year. ;_; Does that make me a pervy old lady for thinking he's hot?

Haven't caught up on G no Arashi yet but it's the stupid Air Guitar saga which I didn't care for the in the first place and doesn't exactly need subtitles anyway.

It's 11:30... I'm not really sleepy. But that could be due to the half a box of chocolate I ate. And now I feel sick for it. That's a bit of a stupid move on my part... I guess we'll see if I still have allergies or not. Not much I can do if I still do.

There are so many dramas on this season that I want to watch. There's one on nearly everyday and they all start next week! I hope a lot of them get subbed. For the most part, all the primetime ones do. I wonder who's picked up Ohno's new drama? No big buzz about that lately and it starts in a week. I'll have to do some poking around this weekend.

No word back from Bruno about Saturday either yet. I'm getting the feeling nothing is going to happen. Going to Roppongi is really a bust unless you plan on staying out all night. I don't mind going with him, even if it's just the two of us after Tomoko goes home but yeah. I'm losing my ambition to go as always happens when things don't get planned. I don't like leaving things til the last minute.

Bah. Well, I've got a fucking long ass day tomorrow. I don't even know what my goddamn schedule is. I didn't even bother making one and they expect me to teach right off the bat tomorrow. D< Maybe I'll get lucky and they'll have forgotten and not scheduled me anything. Not likely since I even had to teach today. Kaneko is back and as featherbrained as ever. The kids totally have no respect for him. They were never that noisy when I was teaching them. I wouldn't stand for it. They know he will. In any case, I just made a review worksheet for them anyway... and if we go through it fast, then we'll play Alphabet Chain. Even if the older kids like that game. I'm really wanting this semester to be over already. At least for elementary school. I don't really like being the teacher. Or at least, give me a fucking cirriculum to work with. It's one thing to give me a textbook but that doesn't really tell me what they are supposed to learn, especially since there is no way they will finish even 1/10th of the book anyway. Ugh. It's totally frustrating.

I just realized I haven't done my health check yet. That was I supposed to do in April. Oops. If you want me to do it, fucking schedule it for me and tell me when and I'll be there. Fucking retards. I'm going to forget about it again unless they press me for it. Maybe I'll get away with not having it this year~ Or maybe come time to renew my contract they'll dock me or something. Touch wood.

もう疲れた。　寝るよ～　早起きから。　おやすみ。

It's hard to think my three weeks off are over already. It feels like I didn't do any resting but for the last 3 days and well, I really didn't. I was so busy most of the time, I was hardly home at all. But when I was, I didn't even leave the house and now it shows. ;_; Poor room, you look like you were never cleaned in the first place. Sob. I should feel more icky than I do now, but I did manage to get into bed around 11:30pm but still not as perky as I usually am for 7:15am. At least I didn't sleep in which is always my biggest fear after throwing my internal clock off.

Today's To-Do list?

~~Plan 6th grade's lesson for tomorrow~~
Study kanji (23 more days!)
Write Equilibrium (though I'm not quite sure how to move to the next stage)
If that fails, work on Sho/Shige collab (I'm going to find a direction Triv!)

That's it really. I have to do the first thing, or I'm fucked tomorrow, but the others are only what I'd like to get done. If things go as they have in the past, no classes for me today so I will be free to do my planning at least. And then when that's done (hopefully by 2nd period) I can do whatever! :D I most definitely should study a little bit everyday. I want to pass my test. I wonder if I'll see any of my students there. Hahaa. That would be hilarious. I was looking through my drill book yesterday and I do recognise a lot of the words, it's just a matter of learning the fucking readings now. I really need to put more effort into this language. I see my みんなの日本語 textbook staring at me everyday and it kind of mocks me. I shouldn't leave it until I get back to Canada to learn. I wonder if that creepy brown dude is still taking lessons... maybe I should go back.

Need to eat and dry my hair. It feels like it's going to be cold today.

I want a new moodtheme. But the first was a bitch enough to install. D<

Current Mood: groggy

My actually last working day of the year. Finally. I'm substituting for someone... they aren't an ALT but a teacher in the IES school system (English language school). I have to go to some kindergarten in Kashiwa and do two hours of Christmas activities with kids. I thought kindergarteners at first, but its a group of 4-6 year olds and one of 8-10 year olds. It's like every day at Ni Shou! The first session is starts at 2:55 but I was told to "make plans and discuss them with the Japanese teacher". I'm not exactly sure what kind of plans I can make without any materials so I just read through the print outs they gave me and highlighted the good games. I want to get there by 2:30 at the latest and check out the scene and talk with this lady who I'm working with. The company didn't mention anything about pay... I should fire off an email to Tatsuya and ask. I want to dress festive, but I don't have any festive clothing. Or even a hat. The best I can do is a green sweater and red earrings.

I'll be done at 5 and then I'll need to rush home to change for my bonenkai. Well, it should only take 30 minutes tops to get home and the restaurant is right across from the old Nova so it will only take 15 minutes to walk there from home. I know what I'm going to wear so it will just be a matter of getting dressed and doing my make up. And picking up my gift. Tada~ I hope I get something good this year. I still have the random shit (total regift from the kitchen) I got last year. I don't even know what it is. Some kind of foodstuff. From Miyazaki-ken. With that famous governer's face on the package. Higashikuni-something.

I'm kind of rambling about nothing. I need coffee. I should go grocery shopping tomorrow. That will be my only plan of the day. Tomorrow is the Emperor's birthday so some places will be closed. I plan to stay home and do absolutely nothing. I'm going to sleep in and play Final Fantasy. This dungeon is like 10 floors and I keep dying so it's going to take a long time.

This full time teaching thing is great but I want the perks that come with it. It's pretty much solidified what I already knew about wanting to be a teacher -- I can just imagine how much better it will be when the kids will be speaking the same language I am and I can wield absolute power and do things my way. That makes me sound tyranical but I don't really know how far I can go in terms of discipline. But I think they are starting to realize that if you aren't paying attention, I am going to call on you. I show mercy for no one.

It's not really any more work than I do on a regular basis. I got all the planning done in that one day, so now it's just execution but the stress is definitely higher. Not stress, per se, but... responsibility. Makes you more tired. I don't know if anyone gets what I mean. I don't even know if I do. Tajima-sensei gave me some encouraging works when I was doing my photocoping (aka killing a small forest) for my classes next week. That made me feel good. :)

Got an email from Mom mentioning Dad having surgery and I freaked out. She hadn't mentioned anything about it before and gave me no details so naturally I jumped to conclusions. Dad has a kind of... lump? Fat deposit or something on his neck and I'm always worried that it's actually a tumor or something. I called home during work and when Mom answered the phone I started wibbling. "Daddy's having surgery...?" And then she laughed and said it was no big deal. He fell on a tire 15 years ago and had to sit on a donut cushion for a while and apparently after all this time it's turned into a cyst or something and keeps getting infected so the doc is going in to clean it up. Just elective, day surgery. I'm kind of glad no one walked past seeing me crying on the phone in the main foyer.

The boots are working out. No blisters on the walk to and from work today.

Am updating a shitton of fics on OT5... I am not even going to bother with listing "recommeded by" anymore because 90% of them are mine.

Did you know that serif fonts are used in large bodies of text because the little tails make your eye follow the words better and promote understanding? I didn't! The things you learn from Smashing Magazine.

Current Mood: exhausted

I'm trying to throw away my money to order the calendar for next year (the A3 size wall calendar sealed the deal; I'm just hoping to god for a spiral binding this time) and fucking Tsutaya website keeps going in circles. It's not up on Tower yet and I don't remember if I can do COD with them. I'm trying not to use my Visa (not very hard though). I could also go order it from 7-11. Maybe I'll do that.

Work yesterday was fine. I spent most of the day typing up a very detailed plan of what the 2nd years need to do in class and hopefully any one of the teachers can do it. Maybe Imai-sensei and Jun-sensei will split them. I don't know. Even he didn't seem to know. It's only one day anyway. I'm hoping that the elementary school hasn't gone and crammed more classes in on the last day because I need to go teach at Toyochu. I suppose I could just tell them that's too bad and they wouldn't be able to say no. We'll see. I would rather be at Toyochu teaching than going to Dainisho and doing nothing all day if I don't have any classes.

I managed to wake up on time today. :D Have I really made good use of my time? Not really. Damn I didn't put my dinner away last night. Man, I miss full-sized fridges where you can just put the pot in. I despise transfering shit to tupperware. It just makes more dishes.

Current Mood: blank

The first day was good. I hope at least half of them understood what I was driving at. We'll see when I give them a homework assignment next lesson. One day down... 12 to go. It's only 830 and I'm ready to crash. Maybe I should. Worse comes to worst, I wake up at midnight for a while. It's not like I'm going to be doing anything other than reading fic tonight anyway. I should update OT5 (among I myriad of other things) but my brain is slowly turning to mush, soon to be leaking out my ears. I'll be dreaming of solutions for 3 of the class's Friday lessons when I'm not there. Oh fuck. I meant to buy an MD on my way home. Maybe Jun has one I can borrow so I can record their word test on it. I need to write up instructions/my plan for the sub teachers tomorrow. Thank god I only have two classes so I can do that.

So, Kaneko-sensei had another break down. At least that's what I'm deciding has happened because no one will tell me voluntarily and would probably give me a roundabout answer if I asked. In any case, he's been off for two days and no one expects him to come back for the rest of the term. Just great. So that means, I'm teaching. Jun seems to have faith in me (at least someone does) and I spent all day planning a 6-8 lesson spread. I don't have a schedule so I don't know exactly how many classes I'll have or when I'll have them. It really chaps my ass because I spent so much time working on my quiz show for the 3rd years and now I probably won't get to do it. At least not until January and then... I don't think so. I think they don't have any classes come January -- just self-study for exams. D< Jerkface!

The second years are so behind. They should be finishing (or at least halfway through) program 7 but they are just starting. Jun said there's about 8 lessons left til the end of term (per class) so I figured if I plan to spend 2 lessons on each section and 1 on the practice/extra bits at the end, and then have 1 lesson buffer in case things take longer than expected... I should be okay. At least that's what I'm hoping. I'm more afraid of going too fast. Because then I'll have to make stuff up to fill the time. And it's not like Nova where I can just shoot the shit and chat with them if we finish early.

I spent the entire day writing up grammar worksheets and trying to think of how to organize. I figure if I just stick to how Jun-sensei or Imai-sensei do their lessons -- lots of reading practice -- I should be okay. The kids who get the grammar points are going to get it (gerunddd grrr! Apparently one of the hardests things for them to get and I have to teach it to them) and the ones who don't, won't no matter how long I spend on it. Or even if I was a Japanese teacher. They just don't care.

I'm a bit pissed that I haven't heard anything from work. I emailed Tatsuya and gave him a heads up to my situation (and he hasn't come for his visit yet) and I haven't heard anything back. Maybe I'll hear something tomorrow. If I'm lucky. I'm hoping they give me a bonus for working more than I'm "supposed to" but I doubt it. A couple 3rd year girls also asked me to record a couple of English listening questions for their high school exams. Another thing on my plate this week.

Ugh. I'm in a foul mood. This calls for carbohydrates.

Current Mood: pissed off

And then I realized, I'm just slutty.

Where's my parade?

ダンスフロアの中央で会いまSHOW ♥

Don't start bad habits

Cause for concern?

I have a feeling.

This is why I need to actually get my ass up at 615.

Bad habits?

Nothing of interest for a subject today.

Crisis averted?

:X

That was disappointingly satisfying.

TGIF

JE needs a name change.

Most definitely

やった～　ついに見ました！

Well, that wasn't so hard.

Today is the last day

I can't wait until next week is over.

Obviously forces are at work

I survived!

Holy fucking christ. I hope this isn't a repeat affair.

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