11/11

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah,

I know,

I'm long overdue for an update

But...

But...

Okay, there isn't any excuse. If someone with a full, exciting life in China can make daily updates, surely I can, too, right?

What... have I been up to...

(besides "no good"...)

The weather got mighty chilly, oh yes it did. You know that, "chilly atmosphere"?

Yeah, that one!






It's nice, isn't it? Even if I hate cold weather, the "atmosphere" really works for me.


Right now I'm sitting in my brother's apartment, for the "2nd Annual Veteran's Day Indian Cookout". (i.e., he cooks Indian food, and I eat it. I'll take some pictures of the food and post them up tomorrow. )

He's become a rather good cook, actually. (Maybe because he has to cook for his girlfriend every night...? But that's a different story...)

11/3

I've almost completed my application for a teaching job in Japan... how exciting!

It goes without saying that I'll be really happy if they hire me.

But, even if they don't, there are plenty of other jobs out there, right??

Every day in my Modern English Structure class, I fall into a fit of irritation, and write pages upon pages of pissy stories. I've been debating whether I should go ahead and post them up here, or not. Maybe the next time there's a day that I don't feel there's anything I should update about...

11/2

That's the jack-o-lantern I carved for Halloween!

Actually, it's not even a pumpkin.

They were out of pumpkins, so I just got a little $1 squash...

So, I just wrote a 3 page paper in 30 minutes.

I'm trying to decide whether I was able to finish it so quickly because my thoughts were so clear, or because I was just rushing like crazy.... (I set an alarm for 30 minutes after my start time, then wrote as quickly as possible. Actually, when I put it that way, it probably wasn't a matter of having clear thoughts, at all...)

I've been remembering a lot more of my dreams, lately. (I'm sure I always have the same number of dreams, but for the most part I don't remember them at all, so I say I've been remembering a lot more lately.)

Speaking of dreams, I used to have a recurring nightmare, when I was young, nearly every night for a few years.

Yesterday, Masatoshi recounted his nightmare from the previous night to me.... and it was the same one I used to have when I was little!

I guess there's just something about running around grassy mazes, trying to escape soldiers.

It must be a common fear for humans, or something.

Well, back to homework...

11/1

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10/30

Happy Halloween!

Just a touch of American flavor for you, far away in the East...

No, I'm not doing anything for Halloween.

Maybe I'll carve a jack-o-lantern tomorrow...?

Oh, I remember that time a few years ago,

you showed up where I was eating dinner, looking like a vampire, and eventually flew off into the night, possibly to make mischief.

....Possibly?

Definitely.

Roomsie and I are in the dining room now. He made some instant noodles that tasted so bad, he had to throw them away in the end. And now he's making strawberry-banana jello. I've somehow managed to run out of some of the most important ingredients for cooking, so I'm having a dinner of tofu, and sweet potato chips I fried earlier.

Now he's laying on the floor, and we're arguing mindlessly about something or another.

He always uses the traditional method, for jello. He HAS always used the traditional method.

But I'm for the quick-set method.

And so is his mother.