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The title. The author's name. "Chapter #1" and its title.

Then my hand was sore and I stopped.






Okay, actually I had to read the first first page, which was just information about the store where I bought the book, and then the next page was "about this book" and the NEXT page was the table of contents. But I still read only a very little bit before having to take a break. I'm using the internets to figure out what the letters and punctuation are, and I have trouble reading some letters still. Especially "t." "T" is hard. But I've got "o" down good!

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I think I'm going to make piroshkis today. I'm getting better at it. I may try to make a pie crust, too, so I can make a pumpkin pie. I'd go out and buy a ready-made crust, but I already went to the grocery store today for tea. Also for Dad's birthday card. What? I'll call him tomorrow, and let him know it's on its way.

I got the six year-old cousin two stuffed bed bugs for Christmas. Also, got Becky and Kerri very small Christmas presents, because I am no longer big awesome Japanese school teacher, but poor US nanny. Who spends all her money on tea. : (

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"Subject: the chocolate's better on this side of the pond (or, come visit me)
Hi, --- here (your aunt from Italy, Spain, and more recently France). My momma-san told me you were in Seattle now so just wanted to drop a line to say 'hello'. If your wandering mode turns back on and you want to spend some time here, let me know. You could do the same thing you're doing there except not for my kids (ah!) and you could learn French....and teach English to the many French (and Japanese) families here. Sound tempting? If not, I can do better.....hope all is well with you. Say hello to -----. ---"

! ?! ! !

I haven't WORDS.

What do I do? First thing, I know: I will write back, expressing interest in this offer, however, with gentle regrets that I am here until this aunt no longer requires my presence (post-Master's). I will also detail the sort of requirements I have for any sort of job situation (200 USD for student loan payments, plus whatever bills I acquire in a foreign land, plus a little extra for fun) because I cannot simply move to France and pretend I have no responsibilities.

But what of Korea? What of Korea??? How much time do I have in this life???

"I can do better" she says. ! ?! ! !

France!!!

SOMEONE ADVISE ME PLEEEEEEAAAAAAAAASE

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I am also at a library in a mall a short distance from my cousin's Chinese school, accompanied by a piroshky that is sitting in my bag, waiting to be eaten.

I managed to run up a $380 bill on my cell last month, so this new tutoring job will be helpful in making that up.

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"Nine. Brick."

"I get some sheep!"



"Siiiiiiix."

"I get some wood~! I get some wood~!"



"Four! Who has a four?"

"I do, I do, I do!"



"Nine, nine, nine nine nine!"

"Nine is mine."

"Sheep, sheep, sheep for me!"

]]> ~andglorious http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/28219692/ http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/28219692/ Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:05:54 PST
"Stop licking the computer!"

"GO AWAY"

"Fine, lick yourself, no one cares."

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Halloween parties were canceled, trick-or-treaters were few, and Greg chickened out in the middle of "the Shining."

: (

I just applied to be a tutor.

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XO !!!

The 6 year-old recovered (we think) and the 40 year-old is now down for the count. WHO IS NEXT TO FALL????

It's probably me.

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Port-a-potties in Seattle are called Honey Buckets.

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OMGZORZ

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(I'm on her fanclub's list because I stole her email from her fansite once. XD )

ANYWAY! Guys! "Unseen Academicals" is out, and I bought it! For the Kindle! It's sitting in there RIGHT NOW and I am anticipating it.

XD XD XD XD XD XD XD

Also I baked some cookies.




But now for THE DILEMMA. My 6 year-old cousin wants to learn to play the piano. See, the 9 year-old takes lessons (grudgingly (are there a lot of g's in that word, or is it just me?)) and I play piano, so SHE wants to play, too. Only she wants me to teach her.

I am already her private tutor (fights over spelling are EPIC), and she has ballet classes (which she adores) and Mandarin lessons (which she hates, but her mom thinks are super important (this is her helicopter side coming out)). I taught her to play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" in the poke-your-finger-at-a-key way. It took her three days to learn the first, and one night to learn the second. She's good. She likes music. I can teach her simple stuff without putting too much work into it.

I just don't know that I want to.

I'm not a piano teacher. I don't remember half the stuff I learned. And she's GOOD. She would do well in regular lessons. She just doesn't have time for regular lessons. Did I forget to mention she plays soccer on Saturdays? And her mom and dad share custody? And we seriously have FIGHTS over spelling?

And I don't WANT to fight over music. I love the piano. I have to, seeing as I still play. Mom's sending me my music in the mail. But I agreed to teach her the little songs and she's so excited about lessons and she actually sat there for an hour and played the stupid little song and learned how to identify keys even though I wasn't particularly patient and and and.

: (

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And then I reply, "But, Self, I am lazy."

And then I say, "Self, you'll have no one but you to blame."

And then I talk to the dog for a while so I can feel slightly more sane.

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Anyway, I'm a happy happy woman right now. MUFFINS!

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The 10 year-old was in a genuine preteen snit this morning! It was hilarious! Also hilarious: he will watch the Man from U.N.C.L.E. with me and make fun of it and be wholly disappointed if he can't do so every single night. Last night's episode had SCUBA ASSASSINS. In IOWA. Best kind of assassins + setting ever Y/N?

The 6 year-old was also in a snit, which manifested in not eating breakfast. This child eats seven child-size dinners and is still hungry. I think today's going to be a bad day for her.

I promised my mom two weeks ago I would send her a recipe for muffins and I haven't. Oh internets, do you think she will kill me with her hands or with her BRAIN???

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I hope this journal entry finds you well. I wanted to inform you of the interview I have this week with a local Starbucks store. I hope you aren't terribly disappointed in me. You see, Starbucks offers quite a few nice benefits, without which I may never see a USAmerican-based physician again. It also offers dental benefits, which I may need soon, as one of my teeth seems to have developed a cavity.

I am still the anti-corporate pseudo-hippie slob you've all come to know and love(?). I promise.

Yours, etc.










p.s. on a lighter note, I am looking into TESOL/TEFL certification so that maybe I can get a decent job with a decent salary when I finally lose my mind and go back to Asia. It would be a 150-hour online course that, combined with previous teaching experience plus tutoring experience, may give me an edge when competing with older, younger, blonder, thinner, male-er, and otherwise more desirable candidates. ?

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Even to someone who wears jeans and t-shirts to pretty much every occasion, and a black skirt and t-shirt when she can't get away with it. The farthest I'll go is a black skirt and nice sweater.

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and not doing a very good job of explaining.

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Ottawa isn't much better. If you go there, you will visit museums and the freakin' Parliament because there is nothing else to do. (The museums are good, though, as is the Eastern Bloc tour of Parliament.) Also, the food isn't that great, unless you cross the river, and then you will be in Quebec, and no one will speak English, and it is hilarious. But that's why the food's good: suddenly you're in French Canada, where they know how to make delicious and over-priced foodstuffs.

Nevertheless! It was a fun vacation. Maybe a bit too educational, but I suppose that's what you get when you go to Canada.

(And none of you get souvenirs because everything was so fucking expensive.)



ALSO ALSO OMG I couldn't find any Mountain Dew at all until we went into the skeevy convenience store and then even though it was all in regular packaging it was ALL caffeine-free!!! What the HELL, Canada?!?!?!

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It is like Wisconsin, only with large, weird, castle-y buildings thrown in. Mostly it is like Madison, because Ottawa is a university town, and also can has government (afterthought). But even more mostly it is awesome, because it took Ed and I two seconds to discover the "haunted tour." And now we can say we have trailed after a young woman in a black cloak who wielded a lantern through an old jail that has been converted into a hostel. HELLZ YEAH!

Anyway, I am staying at the Holiday Inn, and omg my room was upgraded to a queen suite. So I have a bedroom, bathroom, living room, dining room, and kitchen. It is ridiculous and awesome. Ed is staying at a creepy hostel (not creepy in a good way, like the jail hostel, but creepy in the bad way, where people punch signs just as you walk outside (or so I am told)), but tomorrow he is moving into the suite. Because seriously I could easily fit twenty people in here. This is ridiculous. There is a dining room table. It has four chairs.

I am tired. I hope this journal entry makes sense. Good night, all you peeps back there in the US*!


(*and all you peeps anywhere else who are reading this, and even those who are not.)

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Also! I began the Great Culling of Stuff. There are two boxes of goodies free for the asking: one contains many awesome books (Terry Pratchett is heavily represented because most of his books are now available for the Kindle, which is sweet) and the other is full of random randoms. Random randoms include, but are not limited to, posters (Japanese and otherwise), mini-swords, statue-y frogs, and cork houses in glass boxes. There are also four Items of Storage. IoS are things I want to keep, but can't take with me, so they have to be somewhere until my wandering stage is over... so if you want to make sure that I someday track you down, you may want to display them in your home and taunt me every so often. My four IoS are actually two pairs of Raijin & Fuujin swag: a pair of beautiful, gold-threaded pictures, and a pair of awesome statues.

ALSO. I am choosing which Japanese shirts I will keep, and which I will give away. (Sorry, I'm keeping the crazy zipper skirt.) So if you maybe want a silly Japanese t-shirt or sweatshirt to treasure, you should give me a call.

Finally, Mom wants to store the majority of my paper dolls, but it may be that she can't find room for all of them. I may be updating the IoS list with, say, perhaps a lovely bride doll, or a bath-house doll. They are sugoi kirei, for serious.

I'm moving to Seattle in late August, so there's time to snoop around and see if I have something you like. Anything not taken gets donated, or maybe tossed off a cliff.

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I am posting this from the MAC. What do I name it?

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o__O ??

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The humble truth is that the first classic I read for fun was "To Kill a Mockingbird," and I read it because we'd run out of Nancy Drew mysteries in the school library and in the first few pages Scout, the narrator, says "damn."

Well, so what? Who needs to read the classics, right? I whole-heartedly support reading summaries on the Wiki. I taught myself to withstand long-winded nonsense by systematically going through shelves of horror novels by Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Poppy Z. Brite. I found the drive to get through pure inanity with our own personal collection of "the Babysitter's Club" and "Sweet Valley High" drivel, and, of course, the Nancy Drew formulas. Ladies and gentlemen, I read the Pern books. Well, some of them. There were suddenly mind-reading dolphins and it just got a little much.

Anyway. What I'm trying to say is, I read "Dracula" for the first time this week, and Mina Harker is my hero.

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Anyway, we bitched about emo kids and how they're dividing into two equally bubbly and non-gothy groups, and mourned the passing of the goth we knew, who wasn't real goth anyway, but still. The world, she turns, and we get scene kids. Or something. Becky was telling me about them, and she didn't seem so sure about what she was saying.

Did I mention I bought the Sherlock Holmes computer game wherein he fights the cultists of Cthulhu? 'cause I totally did, and I'm totally going to play it. On my Mac. Once I buy it. And install Vista on it. Poor Mac.

]]> ~andglorious http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/24893747/ http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/24893747/ Fri, 22 May 2009 16:27:00 PDT awesome.

I'd be like, "So where do you work?"

and Someone Else would be like, "I work for the city government and get a heap ton of benefits and will sit on my ass for eternity and get paid for it. Where do you work?"

and I'd be like, "Sucker. I work at the aiport."

and S.E. would be like, "What, like a flight attendant?"

and I'd be like, "Hell no! I rent out cars! And my benefits are working at the airport, sucker!"

Gotta go. Gus has to pee.

]]> ~andglorious http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/24863687/ http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/24863687/ Wed, 20 May 2009 19:52:07 PDT
I HAS KINDLE XO !!!

It is absolutely awesome. I have a bazillion free books (okay, maybe 30) and a few that I paid for, and there will obviously be more that I pay for, until I have a $50 book budget every month because omg I love this thing.

Reading on it is so easy. It isn't a computer screen, so it isn't backlit. It's just like a page from a book. You can apparently adjust text sizes; I don't know, I haven't tried that yet. But I have had the Kindle read to me. I have to change the man's voice, though. He's irritating.

I love the next page buttons. They are in the perfect spot. The previous page button is placed a little inconveniently for someone who's a bit trigger-happy, but hey, whatevs. I love the pictures that show up on the screen whenever you turn it off. I LOVE how it saves the last page you looked at, so you can turn it off and turn it right back on to where you were reading. Also, you can do that for multiple books.

But I don't like locations vs. page numbers. I want page numbers back. Locations don't make sense to me, because they don't follow like 1, 2, 3. They follow like 2004, 4000003, 234234234234. And that's confusing and irritating.

I love the skin I bought for it, because it is pretty and makes me happy. I definitely recommend getting a cover for it, because if you jam a thousand things into your purse, this will offer a good deal of protection. Oooh, and even though I haven't tried this out yet, I LOVE that you can browse not just the Amazon store, but also Wikipedia for free! (And that you can browse anything else for whatever small fee it is, I don't know, I have a computer for that.)

Basically, the kindle rocks. 100% pure awesome.

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It is totes awesome. I'll be more effusive and wordy later, when I don't have to go to work.

KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINDLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLE!!!!!!!

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WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS SKIN: [link]

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL DATE IS MAY 18. KNOW THAT WHILE I AM SCREAMING IN TEXT, I AM SCREAMING INSIDE MUCH LOUDER.

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WHY IS IT NOT HERE YET D: D: D: D: D: D: D:

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*ahem*

Look, I'll make you a Mom Deal: if you 'fess up now, I won't get mad. Promise. Just... tell the truth, now. Please.



Also, who the hell told me about the Mountain Goats? Why do I keep listening to this emo nonsense??



Hey, my nails are coming back to life!

]]> ~andglorious http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/24485886/ http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/24485886/ Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:17:38 PDT
Also, Westerns are Romance novels for bimbo males. And "adult" Westerns are unintentionally hilarious and awful.

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AND that's why we don't work at the Cheesecake Factory.

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But seriously. I say "you can ask the reference librarians at the information desk" and you apparently hear "go fuck yourself" from the way you huff off. Well, that must mean you're psychic for the future, because the second you turned around that's exactly what I thought! You're amazing!

Also, dickwads, stop going through my goddamn cart if you're going to move items around. And there are DVDs all over the fucking shelves, you do NOT need to inspect ONLY the ones that are IN MY HANDS.

DAMN YOU ALL. I LOVE MY JOB. YOU WILL NOT RUIN IT FOR ME. GET YOUR ASSES TO MY OTHER JOB SO I CAN HATE IT MORE.

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]]> ~andglorious http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/23068513/ http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/23068513/ Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:13:10 PST BUT THEN YOU CAN DO TOTALLY THIS:

[link]

DO IT. DOOOOOOOOOOOOO IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT.

If you do, I will call 911 ALL THE TIME DUDE FOR SERIOUS.




I was going to tell my brother to do this but he would really suck as a 911 operator.

Hey. Wait. JESSY CAN TOTALLY DO THIS. BECKY NEVER MIND JESSY CAN TOTALLY DO THIS.

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I bought socks today.

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i can't live without my intarwebs D:

have been accepted as a "special student" to uwm for fall 2009. gotta do my taxes to get financial aid. goddamnit it's december. three falls, springs, and a summer to get certification woo and move to alaska. everyone keeps asking what about sarah palin. as if she's going to hang out in my apartment and make me watch moose-hunt tv.

rediscovered cd with go!go!7188 on it, am re-sending thanks to kerri who gave it to me many years ago. thanks! it's fun.

got rid of the yellow nailpolish and am wearing green, but somehow it sucked all of the moisture out of the ends of my fingertips. made it difficult to work the other day; fingers too smooth to pick up coins or open bags. also they felt disgustingly plastic-y. alien. D: so today i tore off a bunch of skin with a nailclippers so maybe skin will grow back with, y'know, whorls and things.

moved on from lovecraft to pratchett, having received "nation" as christmas present. terry pratchett is proof that the universe is, at its swirly starry heart, made of pure love. also gases and fire.

read "a study in emerald." still thinking about that mystery game thingy becky and sam were on about. should we combine murder-mystery and cthulhu? i think the more appropriate question is should we not??? surely there can be nothing better. unless we added zombies.

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Even if you've never seen Die Hard (like me), it's absolutely hilariously awesome.

I'm gonna sing this on a bus one of these days.

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WHAT IS HAPPENING

OMFG WHAT IS HAPPENING






x_X

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CAN. YOU. DIG IIIIIIIIIIIIT??????????









(Am gloating here so family members don't have to kill me. eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!)

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I'm more interested in playing Urban Dead than I am in politics, but that only tells you that I'm more than obsessed with the game, because I have been checking 538 every goddamn hour. It doesn't even update that often! I'm left to read comments left by other obsessive voters (mostly Obama supporters) on that site and a few other (almost entirely liberal) blogs.

But it's not all liberals and liberalizing and whatever I'm saying. I hang out on Yahoo, too, reading news updates and checking out their polls, and I even popped over to RedState to see what was going on over there. But then I got depressed by people telling the internets about how God has chosen McCain because Obama is a Muslim.

Dude. Whatever. God wasn't born in America; he doesn't get a vote. OH YES I WENT THERE.

It's October, my nails are orange, and I'm planning to go out sometime after the 17th and pick up wash-out black hair dye and vampire fangs. It's going to be a fun Halloween.

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So I got into a psuedo-argument, the kind you know isn't going anywhere but you argue anyway, because what the hell. And I'm still kinda pissed off about it.

And I'm sad. I never thought I'd be on the opposing side of an abortion argument with either of my sisters.

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I'm on the Skype!

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...

X.x

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]]> ~andglorious http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/19672995/ http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/19672995/ Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:07:40 PDT
I got a lot of packing done today, and sent two boxes in the mail. I've taken out the last $1000 from the bank, and am spending a bit more than I had hoped to send stuff home (forgot to factor in a giant express-mailed box of PAPER DOLLS), but it's going to work out okay. I mean, it has to.

I took down all my pictures and my fans and my posters, and soon I'll be closing the closets back up, and it's going to be so scarily Not My Apartment Anymore very soon. Which is why, right now, it's still a godforsaken mess.

But I've got to get used to this. I'll be in WI for a year, and then I'll move somewhere else. And then I'll be there for 2 or 3 years, and then I'll move to either Canada or Alaska, barring some very unforeseen circumstances. So I better get used to packing up and moving on, right?

The best part about moving, I've decided, is when people keep moving about their lives and fill up the spaces you leave and wave to you but don't swerve out of their way to say goodbye again. It's nice to know that, while you were important, and you were good at what you did, you are not so necessary that they can't let you go. Then you don't feel so bad. Then it's not like it's over: you're just going on to the next chapter.

I LOVE MY LIFE.

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If it weren't for that, it would be like I was disappearing. O_o

]]> ~andglorious http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/19451033/ http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/19451033/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:41:10 PDT
This is too much to deal with today! I have Canadian wrestlers, the super-fast lunch-time spectacular, plane ticket payment, and an enkai to worry about. I don't need heat rash to go with it all!

And people are talking about me in the front of the office. THIS IS NOT MY HAPPY FACE.

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Oh wait, no, I'm climbing Mt. Fuji this weekend. Never mind. False alarm. Not surviving.

]]> ~andglorious http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/19301648/ http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/19301648/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:55:08 PDT
1. About 100 people choke to death on Melissa S each year.
2. In Japan it is considered rude to talk with Melissa S in your mouth.
3. Over 2000 people have now climbed Melissa S, with roughly ten percent dying on the way down.
4. During severe windstorms, Melissa S may sway several feet to either side.
5. Melissa S can remain conscious for fifteen to twenty seconds after being decapitated.
6. It is bad luck to light three cigarettes with the same Melissa S!
7. It took Melissa S 22 years to build the Taj Mahal.
8. If you blow out all the candles on Melissa S with one breath, your wish will come true.
9. Melissa S has a memory span of three seconds!
10. New Zealand was the first place to allow Melissa S to vote!

]]> ~andglorious http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/19133973/ http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/19133973/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:05:36 PDT
So the new ALT is going to be a guy! From TN. Woot? It should be all right. Apparently he, ah, requested to be in a large city. Oops?

There'll be more information once he emails me back. Also, the Fooj is being very helpful today. I know what to do about all my bills! AND! I has farewell party! July 18th. Eri is invited! I'm gonna get really drunk and then climb Mt. Fuji the next night. OH YEAH.

Anyway. I love you guys. Kerri, I'll see you August 2nd at 00:50 (well, a bit later, but you know). Becky! I'll see you after August 6th! And I'll have your birthday present in my luggage.

I'm getting ready to leave Japan. Wow.

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1. Do not treat me like a simpleton, incapable of reading/thinking/drawing my own conclusions. Do not treat my response to your "opinion" as the act of a brainwashed idiot. Do not pretend that you can call out a friend and insult her and blame her for the implosion of her relationship with your other friend and expect me, who dealt with that same implosion, to not feel like I've been asked to take sides. Do not act like I should have ignored the "opinion" you stated in a public forum that was meant to hurt her as something between the two of you, especially as I was the one who got to unwittingly call her attention to it. You made it possible for me to be drawn into this. You deal with the fucking consequences of it.

Also, yeah, anyone who takes HIS side is on my shit list, because he acted very, very badly and I am honestly ashamed that I once called him my friend.

2. I am not a fucking magic gaijin genie who can solve all your problems. YOU ARE FUCKING QUITTING IN A MONTH. SUCK IT UP. And act like a teacher for as long as you're here!




And now I have vented! I feel better.

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Global warming =>

drought-->food shortage-->overty
drought-->food shortage-->starvation
flooding-->destruction of property-->overty
flooding-->food shortage-->overty
flooding-->food shortage-->starvation
flooding-->spread of disease-->death
flooding-->death
extreme weather-->destruction of property-->overty
extreme weather-->food shortage-->starvation
extreme weather-->death

starvation-->migration of peoples into new countries, often illegally
starvation-->destabilization of already vulnerable areas-->violence
poverty-->destabilization of already vulnerable areas-->violence
disease-->destabilization of already vulnerable areas-->violence

migration of peoples into new countries, often illegally-->destabilization of safe areas, leading to further vulnerable areas

violence-->further destabilization of vulnerable areas
violence-->death

further destabilization of vulnerable areas-->olitical violence
further destabilization of vulnerable areas-->death

political violence-->death



So the point of the article is about how global warming is increasing the terrorism threat against the US.

(Some of this got mixed up, and is a little difficult to sort out. I hope you get the point, though.)

]]> ~andglorious http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/19024947/ http://andglorious.deviantart.com/journal/19024947/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:18:29 PDT
But I love it. And I'm willing to work for another school. I wouldn't mind having a few more classes and a bit more responsibility. I wouldn't mind being able to, y'know, talk to my students and have them understand what I'm saying more than 5% of the time. I also wouldn't mind tackling ESL education for real.

So. Basically what I'm saying is, I would like to apply to Teach for America.

Everyone I talk to freaks out about it, as if I expect it to be easy. Did I expect Japan to be easy? Have I ever done things the easy way? I know, tell people you're from Wisconsin and they think you were born and raised on a farm. I'm from Milwaukee, though, and my dad has been a cop for 30 years. I'm not stupid. I know what I'm getting into: a face-to-face with poverty, despair, and all the violence and pain that goes with it. Kids who won't listen because they have no reason to listen, because no one in the world cares about them and they're not going anywhere. Parents who haven't provided anything since sperm and ova. Schools with no money. Teachers who no longer care, if they ever did.

But it will never get better if we just keep on ignoring it. So I'm going to put my money where my mouth is, and if two years beat me down so far I can't do it anymore, then at least I worked at it for two years. I can't go into the army; I would never make it through that. (I'm a lover, not a fighter.) But I can give at least two years to my country's youth, and who knows? Maybe I'll come out of it with some of that elusive "common sense" that everyone will swear up and down I've never had. Maybe I'll finally shake off that idealism that causes people to shake their heads when talking to me.

If worst comes to worst, I'll always have the people who love me, who will help me find my feet again.



But that was decided before this journal entry. What I'm asking you is: what do you think? Chicago, South Dakota (Lakota Reservation), Hawai'i, or Connecticut? My northern bones won't let me go far south.

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