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[yumi]

I want to know why I am late to virtually everything despite my best efforts to the contrary, why I have no fantasies of anything, why I no longer enjoy much save eating, sleeping and reading articles about gruesome plane crashes.

If I choose the words for my JET essay with exquisite care, I may be all right. But we can only see.

Comments

[jai]

JET accepts anyone and anything, don't worry in the least about it.

[flamingophoenix]

Whee! Optimism!

(The one person I know that JET rejected, I'm actually mainly glad they rejected, so it's all good.) (Plus I think Jen is more qualified than he was.)

[jai]

I dunno that I could call it so much optimism as disdain, really. Most of the people I was in JET with were barely qualified to breathe, and I really hope they never have children. For me, one of the hardest parts of JET was putting up with the other ALTs.

[flamingophoenix]

Hahahah....wow.

My boyfriend got rejected this past year--he's an East Asian Studies major and had 3 years of Japanese, so I had guessed they have much-more-hardcore people applying. But eh, whatever.

At least getting rejected because you're capable of breathing is not so bad. ;-)

Hm. You're not Charles, are you?

[flamingophoenix]

That sounds a lot like clinical depression, actually. I'm no psychologist, but I lived with enough psych majors and depressed people to know the signs. Have you thought about talking to a school counselor? They're free, unlike counselors in the Real World, so my advice would be to take advantage of that fact right-now and plunder the system like a Clinically Depressed Viking.

Um. Or something.

(I, for one, want to know why every serious attempt I make to help a friend turns into uncontrolled levity. Maybe it's my way of coping?)

If you want real psych-major facts about it, talk to Chelsea. She's [firstname].[lastname]@gmail.com if you want to email her.

AND you should come see Narnia with me on December 9!!! Except I don't know if it's playing in W'burg or Hampton. Almost certainly Hampton, but W'burg would be easier. And I'll be bringing your fridge that weekend! Squee!

Love.

[yumi]

I'm intimately familiar with depression. It's just not always this annoying. I'd love to see Narnia with you, though.

[fenlings]

As long as you get all the requirements sorted and do everything on time I think you should be fine. All your overseas experience proves that you're not gonna get cultureshocked back to the US, and your linguistics should help with the teaching thing. Just play up your TOTAL ADAPTABILITY. Yes.

::cheers you on like Ouendan::

[hiei]

Everything will be fine for you, Yumi. Just try to keep your chin up, okay?