This week was so long. My students are finished with their term end exam and I've finished grading all of them. I'm not going to any of my visit schools again until after winter vacation. So that left me with fuck all to do at work for the majority of the week (besides making the Christmas lesson, which took very little time). The week goes by so ( Read more... )

I was going to update last night, but LJ was down. There's so much less to do online when LJ is down.

I had a nice time this weekend. I met up with meepalicious on Saturday afternoon. We went to a matsuri at some shrines near where she lives. We didn't know much about the matsuri at the time, but I later found out a bit more online. It was called the Tori no ( Read more... )

I've been dealing with homesickness fairly well ever since of come back to Japan, but I definitely feel homesick today. I'll be celebrating a belated Thanksgiving with Leslie and Anna on Saturday, but it feels a bit lonely and sad to not be doing anything actually on Thanksgiving. To cheer myself up, I let myself indulge a bit tonight by getting ( Read more... )

The interesting thing about being a foreigner here in Japan is that you tend to meet many new people who you otherwise wouldn't under normal circumstances ( Read more... )

This is the first entry I'm typing from my brand new laptop! (^_^) My other laptop had been giving me so many problems recently that Mom and Dad agreed to get me a new laptop as an early birthday/Christmas present. It's a Samsung Notebook. It's patterned so it looks like a dark brown wood grain, but it still has that very shiny laptop finish on the ( Read more... )

I had an ALT skill development conference that I had to attend on Tuesday and Wednesday for JET. Japanese teachers were invited to attend during the first day of the conference, so Akiko-sensei came with me. I went to the post-conference nomikai (drinking party) for a little while on Tuesday night. I didn't stay out too late though because I knew I ( Read more... )

I didn't do much yesterday, but I did finally message Joe to tell him that I only like him as a friend. He had been hinting that he wanted me to come over to his place and hang out, and I needed to put a stop to that train of thought. He was disappointed, but seemed to take everything pretty well (at least he didn't seem upset in the message). He ( Read more... )

So, a couple of weeks ago I joined the Global PS Company Fan Club. I'd been tempted to do it ever since I missed getting GazettE tickets because fan club members can get presale tickets online. Then, PSC announced that they were doing a presale for GazettE's Omega tour final in Yokohama. I quickly made up my mind to register and I was able to apply ( Read more... )

Happy Halloween, everyone! It doesn't quite feel like Halloween to me. Probably because I didn't have a Halloween costume this year and I haven't eaten nearly enough chocolate. I miss American Halloween traditions.

On Saturday night, Eri and I got together in Ikebukuro to celebrate Halloween. First we took Halloween purikura. One of the game centers ( Read more... )