I am not particularly crazy about it, but it was the only one I found so far that worked that I kind of liked.
Meh.
;)
I'll turn this into a real blog tomorrow... possibly.
Edit a few days later: Okay, so no, I didn't.
November 28, 2008
November 24, 2008
Ick
I feel sicky today. Pretty much my whole body hurts randomly (especially my arms and legs) and my brain is in a fog. :S
Work is almost over for the day and I am trying to figure out what I am going to do for dinner when all I really want is to curl up and go to sleep.
...of course, what I would probably actually do is curl up with my laptop watching TV shows.
I've been watching the Daily Show and the Colbert Report everyday that there are new episodes up, I've been watching The Office weekly, and I've also been watching a lot of Futurama, Rocko's Modern Life, and Invader Zim. :)
My actual television is neglected. I used to watch the news mostly to get weather reports, but now I check the tv station's website for that. I -should- continue watching the news, but I just haven't felt like it lately.
I finished the Haruki Murakami book and I am now a little over 100 pages into the new Ender book. Just like the other books in the series, it really drew me in right away. Reading it kind of makes me want to reread the other books in the series... again. ;)
Back to complaining about icky-ness.
This morning was awful because I woke up cold with my throat and stomach hurting. I had a really rough night's sleep, too. It made me get to work later than usual, but technically I was still early.
But yeah, it's not the end of the world. I bet I'll feel excellent(???) again come tomorrow morning.
Meanwhile, I've been wanting to change the template on this blog. But, as always, I am picky. I've found a number of templates that look nice already, but none of them I really think works for my blog.
I'm just kind of tired of the dragonflies.
Hmm... right now, I am just tired in general.
Random question- What does it take to make a water heater explode terribly? I watched a MythBusters video on youtube the other day and they made a water heater explode and it was almost like a rocket. I was showering yesterday and I realized that the water heater (which I think has been making weird noises lately) is right next door to me. And then, of course, I had to start scaring the living daylights out of myself. Logically, I would think that the MythBusters probably did something extreme to make the heater explode like that and it wouldn't happen just because the heater simply broke or something. It would be good to know the worse case scenario would be cold water (although that would be TERRIBLE.) Buuuut, I don't know. So yeah. If the sound persists, I am going to try to get word of it to the owners of my building. It's just a pain because Japanese isn't exactly my first language. X(
Work is almost over for the day and I am trying to figure out what I am going to do for dinner when all I really want is to curl up and go to sleep.
...of course, what I would probably actually do is curl up with my laptop watching TV shows.
I've been watching the Daily Show and the Colbert Report everyday that there are new episodes up, I've been watching The Office weekly, and I've also been watching a lot of Futurama, Rocko's Modern Life, and Invader Zim. :)
My actual television is neglected. I used to watch the news mostly to get weather reports, but now I check the tv station's website for that. I -should- continue watching the news, but I just haven't felt like it lately.
I finished the Haruki Murakami book and I am now a little over 100 pages into the new Ender book. Just like the other books in the series, it really drew me in right away. Reading it kind of makes me want to reread the other books in the series... again. ;)
Back to complaining about icky-ness.
This morning was awful because I woke up cold with my throat and stomach hurting. I had a really rough night's sleep, too. It made me get to work later than usual, but technically I was still early.
But yeah, it's not the end of the world. I bet I'll feel excellent(???) again come tomorrow morning.
Meanwhile, I've been wanting to change the template on this blog. But, as always, I am picky. I've found a number of templates that look nice already, but none of them I really think works for my blog.
I'm just kind of tired of the dragonflies.
Hmm... right now, I am just tired in general.
Random question- What does it take to make a water heater explode terribly? I watched a MythBusters video on youtube the other day and they made a water heater explode and it was almost like a rocket. I was showering yesterday and I realized that the water heater (which I think has been making weird noises lately) is right next door to me. And then, of course, I had to start scaring the living daylights out of myself. Logically, I would think that the MythBusters probably did something extreme to make the heater explode like that and it wouldn't happen just because the heater simply broke or something. It would be good to know the worse case scenario would be cold water (although that would be TERRIBLE.) Buuuut, I don't know. So yeah. If the sound persists, I am going to try to get word of it to the owners of my building. It's just a pain because Japanese isn't exactly my first language. X(
November 18, 2008
The winter season, the great everybody-knows-Julia school crossover story, and a book I haven't read yet
I've been liking long titles these days. ;)
(Edit: I decided against two of the topics I was going to write about, so the topic became shorter. Then I decide to add something else.)
Winter started today.
There is really nothing to debate about on that one. Yesterday, the weather was pretty decent and when today it got terribly, TERRIBLY cold. Yes, winter, ALL OF THE SUDDEN, is here.
All of my complaints about cold from before- BAH! They're nothing!
I spent a good portion of today freezing in the gym of one of my elementary schools. Today was a meeting about teaching English in the elementary schools and I attended it with a Japanese Teacher of English from one of my junior high schools. Naturally, there was at least one person from each of my four elementary schools, two middle schools, the whole teaching staff of the school it was hosted at, a few teachers I had met through other ALTs, and people from the Board of Education office where I spend a good portion of day when I am not at schools. It was actually really funny that I knew so many people at this meeting. I was telling the teacher that I went to this meeting with who was from where. I was the only ALT attending, although I heard that last year a few ALTs went.
I have my kotatsu set up, but I don't have it up and running. I am guessing there is some missing cord or something. I emailed my predecessor to ask her about it. So now I am sitting here with a fleece blanket over me next to a space heater that I bought. Maybe I -did- do okay preparing for winter after all. Ugh- it's going to be a pain getting myself to get up in the morning because it is going to be FREEZING. It does seem like my usual wish to be able to hibernate over winter is going to show as normally does.
I got a book delivered to me today. Not just ANY book, though, it's the new Ender book! I am very excited to read it, but I am going to make myself finish the Haruki Murakami book I've been reading first. Anyway, I ordered the book off of Japanese Amazon and, because I don't have a card that I can/want to use to pay over the internet, I selected a pay on delivery option. It was kind of fun to do that because that sort of thing is past dead in the US. It required a special delivery service, although it wasn't someone who directly worked for Amazon (for some reason I thought it would be cool if it was...)
I got the book, flipped through a few pages, and then found myself letting out a very happy squeal. Then I realized I probably shouldn't have done that because I could have startled the neighbors. I -think- the walls are pretty thick because I don't hear them very much, but it just might be that they're quiet. In that case, I really hope that I am (usually) quiet, too.
/blog
(Edit: I decided against two of the topics I was going to write about, so the topic became shorter. Then I decide to add something else.)
Winter started today.
There is really nothing to debate about on that one. Yesterday, the weather was pretty decent and when today it got terribly, TERRIBLY cold. Yes, winter, ALL OF THE SUDDEN, is here.
All of my complaints about cold from before- BAH! They're nothing!
I spent a good portion of today freezing in the gym of one of my elementary schools. Today was a meeting about teaching English in the elementary schools and I attended it with a Japanese Teacher of English from one of my junior high schools. Naturally, there was at least one person from each of my four elementary schools, two middle schools, the whole teaching staff of the school it was hosted at, a few teachers I had met through other ALTs, and people from the Board of Education office where I spend a good portion of day when I am not at schools. It was actually really funny that I knew so many people at this meeting. I was telling the teacher that I went to this meeting with who was from where. I was the only ALT attending, although I heard that last year a few ALTs went.
I have my kotatsu set up, but I don't have it up and running. I am guessing there is some missing cord or something. I emailed my predecessor to ask her about it. So now I am sitting here with a fleece blanket over me next to a space heater that I bought. Maybe I -did- do okay preparing for winter after all. Ugh- it's going to be a pain getting myself to get up in the morning because it is going to be FREEZING. It does seem like my usual wish to be able to hibernate over winter is going to show as normally does.
I got a book delivered to me today. Not just ANY book, though, it's the new Ender book! I am very excited to read it, but I am going to make myself finish the Haruki Murakami book I've been reading first. Anyway, I ordered the book off of Japanese Amazon and, because I don't have a card that I can/want to use to pay over the internet, I selected a pay on delivery option. It was kind of fun to do that because that sort of thing is past dead in the US. It required a special delivery service, although it wasn't someone who directly worked for Amazon (for some reason I thought it would be cool if it was...)
I got the book, flipped through a few pages, and then found myself letting out a very happy squeal. Then I realized I probably shouldn't have done that because I could have startled the neighbors. I -think- the walls are pretty thick because I don't hear them very much, but it just might be that they're quiet. In that case, I really hope that I am (usually) quiet, too.
/blog
November 16, 2008
800in5
This is my 800th blog.
And it's been 5 years since I've started blogging.
Hurray!
Errr... I really feel like I should put something relevant to this having being 5 years since I started blogging.
I had a kind of odd weekend. Saturday was good in that I did some much needed shopping, but it was also a stressful day because driving the city and then getting lost on the way back was already bad, but also it was raining pretty hard that day. Today was a complete polar opposite in that it was a pretty great day. I guess a mixture of the usual foggy form my brain takes during weekends, the stress of Saturday, and all of the sunlight I ended up getting today, my mind feels like goo. I'm having a hard time making this blog, well, a blog.
Okay, here's something, and I can KIND of tie it into being relevant.
This is a very known, touching song that many people in Japan know these days. The song is basically a 15-year-old writing a letter to her adult self and then the adult self replying back.
It kind of makes sense for this entry because I started blogging at 17 and now I am an adult blogging. So... I suppose that's KIND of like the song...?
But mostly I just kind of wanted to share this anyway because it is a sweet song that I think would touch anyone with a past and a future. ;)
(....I still plan to make a blog in the Julia in Japan blog this, too, I'm going in a different direction that one.)
Anyway, it song is called "Tegami," or "Letter" in English. It's by Angela Aki, a half Japanese, half American singer.
And here is an English translation.
I would've provided the actual music video, but I actually really don't like it so much. I think this video where she's just singing to students gives the song a lot more justice.
I think it's a wonderful song.
Happy 800in5!
And it's been 5 years since I've started blogging.
Hurray!
Errr... I really feel like I should put something relevant to this having being 5 years since I started blogging.
I had a kind of odd weekend. Saturday was good in that I did some much needed shopping, but it was also a stressful day because driving the city and then getting lost on the way back was already bad, but also it was raining pretty hard that day. Today was a complete polar opposite in that it was a pretty great day. I guess a mixture of the usual foggy form my brain takes during weekends, the stress of Saturday, and all of the sunlight I ended up getting today, my mind feels like goo. I'm having a hard time making this blog, well, a blog.
Okay, here's something, and I can KIND of tie it into being relevant.
This is a very known, touching song that many people in Japan know these days. The song is basically a 15-year-old writing a letter to her adult self and then the adult self replying back.
It kind of makes sense for this entry because I started blogging at 17 and now I am an adult blogging. So... I suppose that's KIND of like the song...?
But mostly I just kind of wanted to share this anyway because it is a sweet song that I think would touch anyone with a past and a future. ;)
(....I still plan to make a blog in the Julia in Japan blog this, too, I'm going in a different direction that one.)
Anyway, it song is called "Tegami," or "Letter" in English. It's by Angela Aki, a half Japanese, half American singer.
And here is an English translation.
I would've provided the actual music video, but I actually really don't like it so much. I think this video where she's just singing to students gives the song a lot more justice.
I think it's a wonderful song.
Happy 800in5!
November 12, 2008
Cold? Yes, cold.
Today is the second day in a row that I woke up with a headache.
I really need to figure out why that happened because it is a very unpleasant way to start the day.
That, along with running late (for being early) to work every morning because it takes longer to dress myself because of the colder temperatures. Clothes take forever to hang dry and I haven`t quite worked out having sweaters and such to go with my work clothes.
This weekend, I am planning on visiting the coin laundry. I am looking forward to pulling nice, warm clothes out of a dryer for the first time since I left the US. I am also thinking that I will go work clothes shopping so that I can hold out a little longer on having to go to the coin laundry and have a few more outfits more suited to the colder weather.
It`s amazing how much you have to plan for cold when you live somewhere central heating is not common. I mean, it`s probably not going to be -TOO- much colder than Monterey (although I`ll admit I have very little idea what to expect), but there I simply put on a big jacket and maybe a hat and then warmed up when I got inside. Here, I need to be able to dress warm indoors more frequently than I used to.
I was going to break my rule about not being too political on my blog, but I am too sleepy so I blogged about the cold instead.
I read through some of my entries I posted here yesterday. They`re pretty okay.
I forgot the squirrel blog was during my list writing phase.
I really need to figure out why that happened because it is a very unpleasant way to start the day.
That, along with running late (for being early) to work every morning because it takes longer to dress myself because of the colder temperatures. Clothes take forever to hang dry and I haven`t quite worked out having sweaters and such to go with my work clothes.
This weekend, I am planning on visiting the coin laundry. I am looking forward to pulling nice, warm clothes out of a dryer for the first time since I left the US. I am also thinking that I will go work clothes shopping so that I can hold out a little longer on having to go to the coin laundry and have a few more outfits more suited to the colder weather.
It`s amazing how much you have to plan for cold when you live somewhere central heating is not common. I mean, it`s probably not going to be -TOO- much colder than Monterey (although I`ll admit I have very little idea what to expect), but there I simply put on a big jacket and maybe a hat and then warmed up when I got inside. Here, I need to be able to dress warm indoors more frequently than I used to.
I was going to break my rule about not being too political on my blog, but I am too sleepy so I blogged about the cold instead.
I read through some of my entries I posted here yesterday. They`re pretty okay.
I forgot the squirrel blog was during my list writing phase.
November 06, 2008
My moles hate me and a random reminder
You know what`s really weird?
Since moving to Japan, I had another mole which was acting funny like the one I had removed. I went to the doctor about it, and, like my doctor in the US, didn`t think it was anything to worry about.
And now a third mole is doing the same thing.
I don`t even know if "mole" is the correct word for it.
But whatever they are, they don`t like me and they want to escape from my arms.
The first one was on my right arm, the second on my left, and the third is on my right arm. So I assume the next one will be on my left again. Who wants to take bets?
Speaking of bets (although it isn`t really one), Danny is certain that my successor to my current job and apartment after I go back to the US will be a male. I doubt it because all of my known (to me, anyway) predecessors are female. So I am writing this entirely for the sake of remembering so I can tell Danny he was wrong.
Yes, it is going to be a few years before this is actually known.
I had a few topics that were better than discussing rebellious moles, but I can`t remember them. Probably because they aren`t placed on my arm where they catch my eye and they are not so hard to resist poking at.
Oh, and if you didn`t read the comments for my last blog (GASP!), I am going to go for the 800 blogs in 5 years thing after all.
Since moving to Japan, I had another mole which was acting funny like the one I had removed. I went to the doctor about it, and, like my doctor in the US, didn`t think it was anything to worry about.
And now a third mole is doing the same thing.
I don`t even know if "mole" is the correct word for it.
But whatever they are, they don`t like me and they want to escape from my arms.
The first one was on my right arm, the second on my left, and the third is on my right arm. So I assume the next one will be on my left again. Who wants to take bets?
Speaking of bets (although it isn`t really one), Danny is certain that my successor to my current job and apartment after I go back to the US will be a male. I doubt it because all of my known (to me, anyway) predecessors are female. So I am writing this entirely for the sake of remembering so I can tell Danny he was wrong.
Yes, it is going to be a few years before this is actually known.
I had a few topics that were better than discussing rebellious moles, but I can`t remember them. Probably because they aren`t placed on my arm where they catch my eye and they are not so hard to resist poking at.
Oh, and if you didn`t read the comments for my last blog (GASP!), I am going to go for the 800 blogs in 5 years thing after all.
November 02, 2008
100th blog blog
I am sure everyone has been paying attention to the blog archive on the left side of this page and have already noticed that I was getting rather close to posting the 100th blog since switching back to blogger.
No? No one noticed? Well- I did!
One of my favorite thing about this blog is that I choose to blog here on my own. On top of that, I have people who willingly read it without me having to nag them to. I remember really trying to get friends to read my old blogspot before finally getting a livejournal.
"I actually got a live journal! Yes, I am still a blogger-person, but I decided to come here so people will feel obliged to read all my blabbing!" -first livejournal post
Kind of a miserable attitude.
And, of course, I followed the herd to MySpace. Sure, I liked LiveJournal and MySpace during their times. However, for some time on MySpace I kind of felt like my blogging was just going to end up moving to the next place everyone else moved. I didn't really like that idea. Plus, I was starting to really dislike myspace in general.
So, I came here. And this time readers followed. Yay! It's sooo nice to have people read my blog without me having to insist. So, THANK YOU!
I looked at past entries and I realized that they show I went through a pretty crazy time. A good number of blogs I posted have to do with the issues applying for JET, graduating/capstone project, and the problem I've been having with my eyes. Then eventually preparing for moving to Japan and then getting here. Lots of changes and stress.
Although, I suppose you could probably take a little over 9 months of -anyone's- life, look at what they did, and think "wow, that's a lot of things going on with that person."
Some of my favorite blogs here include the one where I talked about watching a squirrel get run over because I remember trying SO hard not to make the post funny (although I was slightly traumatized) and the one where I described getting a mole removed (because I compared my numbed arm to a plum being nibbled on by a bird and I made up the phrase "ex-mole").
Finally, because I like to keep track of ridiculous things-
-The end of January will mark one year on this blogspot page.
-On November 16th, it will have been 5 years since I started blogging.
-On all of my public blogs combined (old blogspot, livejournal, myspace, and here), I will have 782 entries posted after I post this one.
Current Blogspot - 100
MySpace - 402
Livejournal - 125
Old Blogspot - 155
I -could- aim for having my 800th blog land on my 5 years blogging date, but I probably wouldn't make it. :D
I just realized this means that I don't blog an average of 56.16% of the days of the year.
/100th blog
No? No one noticed? Well- I did!
One of my favorite thing about this blog is that I choose to blog here on my own. On top of that, I have people who willingly read it without me having to nag them to. I remember really trying to get friends to read my old blogspot before finally getting a livejournal.
"I actually got a live journal! Yes, I am still a blogger-person, but I decided to come here so people will feel obliged to read all my blabbing!" -first livejournal post
Kind of a miserable attitude.
And, of course, I followed the herd to MySpace. Sure, I liked LiveJournal and MySpace during their times. However, for some time on MySpace I kind of felt like my blogging was just going to end up moving to the next place everyone else moved. I didn't really like that idea. Plus, I was starting to really dislike myspace in general.
So, I came here. And this time readers followed. Yay! It's sooo nice to have people read my blog without me having to insist. So, THANK YOU!
I looked at past entries and I realized that they show I went through a pretty crazy time. A good number of blogs I posted have to do with the issues applying for JET, graduating/capstone project, and the problem I've been having with my eyes. Then eventually preparing for moving to Japan and then getting here. Lots of changes and stress.
Although, I suppose you could probably take a little over 9 months of -anyone's- life, look at what they did, and think "wow, that's a lot of things going on with that person."
Some of my favorite blogs here include the one where I talked about watching a squirrel get run over because I remember trying SO hard not to make the post funny (although I was slightly traumatized) and the one where I described getting a mole removed (because I compared my numbed arm to a plum being nibbled on by a bird and I made up the phrase "ex-mole").
Finally, because I like to keep track of ridiculous things-
-The end of January will mark one year on this blogspot page.
-On November 16th, it will have been 5 years since I started blogging.
-On all of my public blogs combined (old blogspot, livejournal, myspace, and here), I will have 782 entries posted after I post this one.
Current Blogspot - 100
MySpace - 402
Livejournal - 125
Old Blogspot - 155
I -could- aim for having my 800th blog land on my 5 years blogging date, but I probably wouldn't make it. :D
I just realized this means that I don't blog an average of 56.16% of the days of the year.
/100th blog
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