Friday, February 10, 2006
Ken is still gay, and Barbie is on her deathbed
Article. Dude, I didn’t think it was possible, but is Barbie even thinner than before?!
Visitors!
So, not only is my sister coming in five weeks (YAY!!!!!), but in the last 24 hours, I have found out that Brandon is visiting Japan at the beginning of March, AND Tony and his wife got teaching jobs and are moving here in April! Woot! Oregon is taking over, bitches! (haha, Brandon, you are an Oregonian now whether you want to be or not)
Note to Self: Don’t E-Mail Hookers
Hahahaha. Gee, I can’t BELIEVE the Charlie Sheen/Denise Richards marriage didn’t work out. Their love seemed bless by God!
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Cue the Fashion Police
I hope I am not stealing a blog entry from Cindy, but since we have the same blogs anyway, it doesn’t really matter (we were talking about this last night).
It has occurred to me that I bet my students think I am really poor and ghetto, because they see me wearing the same thing literally every day. I dress nice for work (nice pants, nice long-sleeved button-down shirt), but no one would know if I went shirtless because I always put my black Columbia Sportswear over it at work. For those of you who don’t know, Japanese schools are so cold that you could probably leave huge slabs of raw meat and cartons of milk in the hallway and they would never go bad (I sense a science experience in the making!). I can see my breath in the hallways as I walk to class (don’t get me started on the even-colder bathrooms). So, yeah, just wearing a long-sleeved shirt doesn’t cut it!
Anyway, the first time I wore my fleece, I got some comments from students who were like “Cool, Columbia!” Now I bet they are probably like, “Honey, you need to get your ass to AEON and buy some new clothes, mmmkay?” because I have literally worn it every day to work since November or December.
I wash the fleece every week, but still…hmm. Thank god for it, tho, because some of my shirts I wear underneath it need to be ironed so badly that even if it is warm, I refuse to take the fleece off because it would be embarrassing. Oh, well, the students would probably wear the same thing every day if they didn’t have uniforms! Or at least I will tell myself that.
It has occurred to me that I bet my students think I am really poor and ghetto, because they see me wearing the same thing literally every day. I dress nice for work (nice pants, nice long-sleeved button-down shirt), but no one would know if I went shirtless because I always put my black Columbia Sportswear over it at work. For those of you who don’t know, Japanese schools are so cold that you could probably leave huge slabs of raw meat and cartons of milk in the hallway and they would never go bad (I sense a science experience in the making!). I can see my breath in the hallways as I walk to class (don’t get me started on the even-colder bathrooms). So, yeah, just wearing a long-sleeved shirt doesn’t cut it!
Anyway, the first time I wore my fleece, I got some comments from students who were like “Cool, Columbia!” Now I bet they are probably like, “Honey, you need to get your ass to AEON and buy some new clothes, mmmkay?” because I have literally worn it every day to work since November or December.
I wash the fleece every week, but still…hmm. Thank god for it, tho, because some of my shirts I wear underneath it need to be ironed so badly that even if it is warm, I refuse to take the fleece off because it would be embarrassing. Oh, well, the students would probably wear the same thing every day if they didn’t have uniforms! Or at least I will tell myself that.
Nerd Convention
Last night was the weekly Ota potluck. However, due to it being cold as fuck and no one wanting to bike anywhere, we have been doing it at restaurants in Ota lately. Also, due to people being sick and busy, there were a whopping THREE people at last night’s dinner, hahaha. So, yes, it was a PARTY with me, Sean and Cindy. Nah, just kidding, we had fun. And by “fun,” I mean we were the nerdiest people in all of Japan (and that takes a LOT).
The three of us decided last night would be the official time to do a file swap of TV shows and movies from our external hard drives (well, me and Sean were swapping. Cindy was just STEALING! Hee hee). So, I went to dinner with my huge backpack full of literally more than $3,000 worth of technology: my laptop, my external hard drive, my iPod and my camera. Sad, I am such an otaku.
Anyway, we decided to walk to Sean’s house after dinner, as we couldn’t think of any place we could steal electricity. Might I mention that laptops are really light until you have to carry them in a backpack for a 20-minute walk? Yeah.
So, at Sean’s place we did the swap and I now have TONS of stuff to watch during winter hibernation! Woot!
Cindy and I left Sean’s and walked back to Ota eki, which we thought would take 20 minutes. I didn’t think we were walking particularly slow, but apparently we were, because at about 9:35, we realized we were a bit far from the eki to make my 9:48 train. The following 13 minutes were the most excruciating minutes of my entire life! I had to fucking RUN as fast as I could with the fucking heaviest backpack in the world! Needless to say, “fast as I could” was NOT very fast at all! On top of this, I was wearing the following clothes: a wifebeater, a t-shirt, a long-sleeved shirt, a sweater, and a THICK coat, gloves and a scarf (if it was truly cold last night, which it wasn’t, I would have been wearing a fleece under the jacket. Thank god I wasn’t!). I was also wearing underwear, long underwear, jeans, and thick skiing socks. Um, YEAH. So I made the train just in time (the second time in a week that I have yelled at the platform person to wait for me as I run up the stairs to the train), and was sweaty and out of breath for like the whole train ride. Hmm, PERHAPS I am a bit out of shape! Jesus!
So, yay to having movies to watch. And yay to having a reason to be more out of shape than I already am!
The three of us decided last night would be the official time to do a file swap of TV shows and movies from our external hard drives (well, me and Sean were swapping. Cindy was just STEALING! Hee hee). So, I went to dinner with my huge backpack full of literally more than $3,000 worth of technology: my laptop, my external hard drive, my iPod and my camera. Sad, I am such an otaku.
Anyway, we decided to walk to Sean’s house after dinner, as we couldn’t think of any place we could steal electricity. Might I mention that laptops are really light until you have to carry them in a backpack for a 20-minute walk? Yeah.
So, at Sean’s place we did the swap and I now have TONS of stuff to watch during winter hibernation! Woot!
Cindy and I left Sean’s and walked back to Ota eki, which we thought would take 20 minutes. I didn’t think we were walking particularly slow, but apparently we were, because at about 9:35, we realized we were a bit far from the eki to make my 9:48 train. The following 13 minutes were the most excruciating minutes of my entire life! I had to fucking RUN as fast as I could with the fucking heaviest backpack in the world! Needless to say, “fast as I could” was NOT very fast at all! On top of this, I was wearing the following clothes: a wifebeater, a t-shirt, a long-sleeved shirt, a sweater, and a THICK coat, gloves and a scarf (if it was truly cold last night, which it wasn’t, I would have been wearing a fleece under the jacket. Thank god I wasn’t!). I was also wearing underwear, long underwear, jeans, and thick skiing socks. Um, YEAH. So I made the train just in time (the second time in a week that I have yelled at the platform person to wait for me as I run up the stairs to the train), and was sweaty and out of breath for like the whole train ride. Hmm, PERHAPS I am a bit out of shape! Jesus!
So, yay to having movies to watch. And yay to having a reason to be more out of shape than I already am!
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Sigh
Proof that I am an old man and no longer a fun person:
I woke up this morning with a feeling of dread that it had snowed during the night. Hoping that my instincts were wrong, I opened the curtains to find a blanket of snow covering the ground. Instead of having a normal, happy reaction to this, my thoughts were “God dammit, I don’t want to bike to work in fucking snow!!!” Sad.
I woke up this morning with a feeling of dread that it had snowed during the night. Hoping that my instincts were wrong, I opened the curtains to find a blanket of snow covering the ground. Instead of having a normal, happy reaction to this, my thoughts were “God dammit, I don’t want to bike to work in fucking snow!!!” Sad.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Weekuendo Rebyuu
I’m currently pretending to be a dumb gaijin and acting like I don’t know there is a school meeting occurring in the gym. Hey, if the tea lady and kyushoku lady don’t need to attend, neither do I ;) I don’t give a shit about bike safety! (as will be evident later in this post) The moral of the story is: don’t schedule an assembly during Jeff’s period off.
So, instead I will blog! I KINDA did stuff this weekend, which is more than I could say the last two weeks. Well, drinking, eating and watching TV count as doing stuff, right? Anyway! So, on Friday Ann, Cindy and I met up with Emily in Tatebayashi for dinner at a tabehoudai (all-you-can-eat) place. Um, needless to say, we got our money’s worth! It was a thank you meal to Emily for always driving us places….thanks, Emily!!! And, let’s face it, it was an excuse to eat, muahahaha.
Saturday morning, the fucking mail lady woke me up at 9:30 in the morning! GAH! I answered the door, not able to speak any language at that hour, and she was like “Ah, yes, on weekends people like to sleep in and take it easy, eh?” I was like “YES WE DO NOW GIVE ME MY FUCKING PACKAGE.” Actually what I actually said was “unn lxslkjweroiuwerflksjsdfks arigatou” *door slam* Anyway, it was good, as I had to clean up a bit before Cindy, Jenny and Ann came over for a Brokeback Mountain viewing! IT WAS SO GOOD. I need to watch it again! The only bad thing was that the copy was a little quiet, and they mutter as it is in that movie, so we had to rewind a few times to see what the hell they were saying. Still, so good! Great acting and great directing…..sooooo good. Might I say, I am disturbed that I saw The Princess Diaries’ girl’s boobs. That isn’t right. Same with Michelle Williams’, for that matter. But, come on! Princess Diaries! Boobs! No! Anyway, the movie was amazing.
We then went to this Ota International dinner thing in Ota (hmm, imagine that) and FINALLY saw Veronica, Angie and others. I hadn’t seen them in a million years, so it was nice to finally hang out with them a bit. The event itself was making me very nervous at first, as it looked like a possible English leech convention, but we somehow came away without any full-on attacks, for which I was very grateful. Plus I do believe our table drank the entire party’s booze, as only gaijin can do.
After the dinner, some of us headed out for karaoke at the usual place. We are going to have to find a new usual place, as they raised the price for the good nomihoudai menu. The drinks on the cheaper one are fucking nasty, yo. Hrm. I had walked to the eki with the girls, so I didn’t have my usual bike to bike back on. However, I had my extra bike at the station from when Cindy rode it there like a month and a half ago (yay for safe Japan!). So, drunk Jeff rode the already-too-small bike home with the seat at Cindy’s height. It was, er, interesting! Thank god there weren’t any cars on the road, as I was all over the damn place!
Sunday was the usual relaxing day…talked to Eduardo (yay!), talked to my parents, watched lots of TV, and did grocery shopping. Yes, I lead a thrilling life. Oh, I saw Good Night, and Good Luck and it was good. Very interesting and very appropriate for the current political climate, as well as the laziness found in modern journalism. I didn’t realize George Clooney would be such a good director; I was impressed!
And yep, that’s my weekend. Hey, the meeting just ended and no one asked where I was. Yay for not being important! Time to read some Harry Potter and ignore everyone :)
So, instead I will blog! I KINDA did stuff this weekend, which is more than I could say the last two weeks. Well, drinking, eating and watching TV count as doing stuff, right? Anyway! So, on Friday Ann, Cindy and I met up with Emily in Tatebayashi for dinner at a tabehoudai (all-you-can-eat) place. Um, needless to say, we got our money’s worth! It was a thank you meal to Emily for always driving us places….thanks, Emily!!! And, let’s face it, it was an excuse to eat, muahahaha.
Saturday morning, the fucking mail lady woke me up at 9:30 in the morning! GAH! I answered the door, not able to speak any language at that hour, and she was like “Ah, yes, on weekends people like to sleep in and take it easy, eh?” I was like “YES WE DO NOW GIVE ME MY FUCKING PACKAGE.” Actually what I actually said was “unn lxslkjweroiuwerflksjsdfks arigatou” *door slam* Anyway, it was good, as I had to clean up a bit before Cindy, Jenny and Ann came over for a Brokeback Mountain viewing! IT WAS SO GOOD. I need to watch it again! The only bad thing was that the copy was a little quiet, and they mutter as it is in that movie, so we had to rewind a few times to see what the hell they were saying. Still, so good! Great acting and great directing…..sooooo good. Might I say, I am disturbed that I saw The Princess Diaries’ girl’s boobs. That isn’t right. Same with Michelle Williams’, for that matter. But, come on! Princess Diaries! Boobs! No! Anyway, the movie was amazing.
We then went to this Ota International dinner thing in Ota (hmm, imagine that) and FINALLY saw Veronica, Angie and others. I hadn’t seen them in a million years, so it was nice to finally hang out with them a bit. The event itself was making me very nervous at first, as it looked like a possible English leech convention, but we somehow came away without any full-on attacks, for which I was very grateful. Plus I do believe our table drank the entire party’s booze, as only gaijin can do.
After the dinner, some of us headed out for karaoke at the usual place. We are going to have to find a new usual place, as they raised the price for the good nomihoudai menu. The drinks on the cheaper one are fucking nasty, yo. Hrm. I had walked to the eki with the girls, so I didn’t have my usual bike to bike back on. However, I had my extra bike at the station from when Cindy rode it there like a month and a half ago (yay for safe Japan!). So, drunk Jeff rode the already-too-small bike home with the seat at Cindy’s height. It was, er, interesting! Thank god there weren’t any cars on the road, as I was all over the damn place!
Sunday was the usual relaxing day…talked to Eduardo (yay!), talked to my parents, watched lots of TV, and did grocery shopping. Yes, I lead a thrilling life. Oh, I saw Good Night, and Good Luck and it was good. Very interesting and very appropriate for the current political climate, as well as the laziness found in modern journalism. I didn’t realize George Clooney would be such a good director; I was impressed!
And yep, that’s my weekend. Hey, the meeting just ended and no one asked where I was. Yay for not being important! Time to read some Harry Potter and ignore everyone :)
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