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// October 16th, 2009 // Enter your password to view comments. // Blog

What’s new?

// October 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

I hate having protected entries at the top.
I don’t know, it looks kind of unfriendly.

Typhoon came, everything is fine. It just kept me up until the wee hours of the morning on Thursday. My mornin class was cancelled that day, so even though I was at work early, it gave me time to get some paperwork done. So that was kind of nice, even though I really do enjoy teaching that class.

It’s getting cold, and I’m getting a bit sick. Although, I do feel better today than I did yesterday, so that’s a bonus.

I feel like lately I haven’t really talked to that many people. It’s kind of disappointing, in a way, because there are a lot of people I enjoy talking to. I always get worried that I’ll message someone or e-mail someone and be annoying them, so I generally don’t do it.

I also really hate Bob.

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// September 29th, 2009 // Enter your password to view comments. // Blog

Backstabber

// September 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

For some reason, every time I think of the word ‘backstabber’, I feel like it should be said like Peter says, ‘BUTTSCRATCHER’. (For reference, click here). I don’t know why.

But yes.

Bev sent me a letter the other day. I feel really bad that I haven’t called her or anything recently. She sent some photos of the festival, of Chayan. Oh my god is he tall now, haha. I think I still see him as a little boy, like when I first met him. But he did really well at the festival! So I’m really proud at him about that.

But, Bev also told me something interesting. One of the teachers (we’ll call her H) left the conservatory. Okay, it happens. But when she left, she tried to take as many of her students with her as she could.

THAT IS AWFUL.
It also goes against the unwritten ‘rule’ I guess. Maybe it’s in the contract, actually. I’m not sure. I never signed a contract there or anything. It was more, hey, you’ve been here forever, wanna job? Haha.

But yes. So, H left the conservatory, and is trying to take as many students as she can. That’s just so low and disrespectful. She was so sweet too, and I thought she was a really nice lady. But… guess not. I guess you really can’t tell who you can and can’t trust.

It just majorly sucks when you go out on a limb for some one, by offering them a job (and anytime you do that, you are doing just that… wow redundancy) and they turn around to bite you in the ass. It’s happened to me a few times… not on the same level, but it definitely is not cool.

*sigh*

// September 10th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blog

It’s only Wednesday, but it feels like it’s been a long week.

I haven’t updated for a while, because… I guess, I don’t really have that much to say. Things at work are going well though, and I had a talk with my boss and he said the same. So, I was definitely relieved to hear that. I get paranoid that they won’t want me to stay, or that the students or parents will complain about me. I try my best to make classes fun, and to make sure the kids learn what they’re supposed to, but you know… what you think you’re doing, and what you’re actually doing don’t always end up being the same.

Oh! One of my three year olds made some origami and drew a picture for me! Haha. It’s super cute, and I was so touched. I also have another who always goes, “Adrienne先生, 見て見て！！” (LOOK AT ME!) and then she’ll twirl or something, haha. It kind of makes me think of Stuart from MadTV, except she’s like… super cute and Stuart (as awesome as he is) is kinda creepy.

Things at S-T are a bit crazy right now, but luckily we’re going to get all the wrinkles smoothed out. Let’s just say the site has greatly veered from the path it originally started on, and because of that we’ve been kind of in this weird limbo for a while. We’re fixing that up. There’s (hopefully) lots of changes coming up soon, so I hope that our readers will enjoy it! I love S-T and I think we all work really hard, so I hope we can make it live up to its potential. Mija and I have been working, I’ve been talking a lot to Inka and Shintomo about what we could do, and Hitomi and I have been working on stuff on this end. So, that’s something to look forward to.

This isn’t it, but FINALLY the weather isn’t trying to kill everyone living in Nagoya anymore (yay). It’s actually cool tonight! Well, cooler. This evening walking home from work I was actually kind of cold… and after wishing for coldness for so long, I kind of wish it wasn’t going to turn cold. Typical, right?

On a random note, my shoulder is peeling. O_O
Like, sunburn peeling.
No, for real. Because I know you’re doubting me right now, haha.

Oh, I also called Grammy tonight. She’s doing well, so that’s good to hear. My family never has much drama, so there’s never much to report, haha. It’s usually oh, the house looks good, the flowers are doing nicely, the dog ate a pound of butter… you know.

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// July 29th, 2009 // Enter your password to view comments. // Blog

Holy rain batman.

// July 26th, 2009 // No Comments » // Blog

I can’t believe how hard it’s raining!

Both yesterday and today it was sunny one minute, and pouring the next. Today we got thunder and lightening to accompany it as well. Nice. What a lovely day.

Other than that, not much is new. My bed came, so my apartment is almost all set up.

Tomorrow we’re going to the mountains for the day… which means I have to get up super early. I have to catch the 7:03am subway, and I have to stop by the conbini on my way, so I’ll have to leave at about 6:50am. Okay, some people don’t think that’s super early, but I do! I go to bed at around 3:00am, so 6:00am comes pretty damn fast.

In a couple of weeks, Kat will be here! I’m really looking forward to that.

Then we have Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
I have decided that’s what I will call them.
For no other reason than I can. Except I haven’t quite decided who’s who.

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// July 14th, 2009 // Enter your password to view comments. // Blog

Productive.

// July 13th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Blog

So today was quite productive as far as getting P-S.net up and going was concerned.

I’ve added a bunch of photos to the site — both in new galleries, and in old. (And Kat, I stole some photos from your FaceBook…). The photo section is a lot more organized, and I went from having eight galleries to twelve. If you have some spare time, I suggest checking out the ‘Random Photos’ one (the one with a sign) because there are some pretty funny images in there.

Like the Acid Milk truck and the instructions on how to sit on the toilet.

Hopefully within the next few days I’ll be getting the links section and the profile section all done. I’m still not sure what I want to put in the profile, so any suggestions would be appreciated.

In addition to my productivity on the site, I also got laundry and grocery shopping done, making it a pretty good day indeed.

And on that note, it’s 2:40am and I should get to sleep. I went to bed at 5:00am yesterday, and woke up around 8:00am so I’m pretty tired.

So, I have this thing…

// June 20th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blog

Where I don’t like answering the phone. I mean, my phone. If it’s a phone at work or something, that’s one thing. But my own person cell phone, I do not like answering.

I don’t know why.

I never have. As long as I’ve had a phone. Which really has only been about five years. Landlines, I’m okay with answering. But cell phones… I get really weird about. I don’t have any sort of odd paranoid thoughts about it, I just simply don’t like answering it.

SO. That brings me to today.

This morning, bright and early (at eight o’clock) my phone rings, waking me from sleep. I had to work at 9:30, so it’s not like it was the worst time to be awake. However, I didn’t recognize the number, so I didn’t answer. I do not want to talk to someone I don’t know at eight in the morning. It rang again. Different number, which seemed weird, but I didn’t answer.

It turns out, I have voicemail on my phone. WHO KNEW. BECAUSE I SURE DIDN’T. Not until I got some this morning.

From my mother.

Naturally, I called her back right away beacuse I thought maybe something was wrong. Why else would she call me at eight in the morning and on my cell phone no less, especially when I just talked to her on Tuesday.

Long story short, she just wanted to talk. Nothing was wrong, which is a relief. I also don’t know why it gave me actual numbers for the long distance call. O_O Like, it looked like a regular cell phone number… weird.

Cut to this evening after work. I get another call, but it’s “Blocked Number”. Again, I don’t answer it. It rings again… from the “Blocked Number”. So I figure, oh what the hell, I’ll answer it and see what happens. It ends up being Hideko, calling to make sure the number I gave her worked. Good thing I did answer it! It was really hard to hear her for some reason, because it was all muffled, but she’s on her way, so I’m excited.

I need to get over this not wanting to answer the phone thing though. I have no idea what it is. It’s not that I don’t like talking, I just really… hate answering. The same with things like Skype. I do not want to answer if people I’m not intending to call, call me.

Hm. This may come off sounding more crazy than I intended.