Friday, June 30, 2006
Everything about summer sucks!!!
Dude, even though winter was the season of the devil, I want it back RIGHT NOW because I am already dying in this fucking heat. I am tired of showering every five minutes! BAH!
What makes it far worse is that we have school until July 20th (in case you forgot this charming gem of information, Japanese schools don’t have air conditioning). It is SO fucking pointless to have school in this heat because all of the teachers are near death, and the kids don’t do ANYTHING in class. They just sit there and zone out or sleep (seriously half of my last class was asleep). It is so fucking ridiculous and irritating!!!! BAH!
Also, I am about to offer to pay the fucking electric bill for my cheap-ass whore of a Kyoto sensei to TURN ON THE MOTHERFUCKING AIR CONDITIONING IN THE STAFF ROOM! WHAT THE FUCK! When it is 32 degrees, one would expect to have windows wide open, or preferably, air conditioning on. But we wouldn’t want to have flies come into the staffroom now would, we? And we wouldn’t want to pay like 2 extra yen for genki teachers, no! It’s hotter in here than it is outside! Fucking ghetto-ass country.
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What makes it far worse is that we have school until July 20th (in case you forgot this charming gem of information, Japanese schools don’t have air conditioning). It is SO fucking pointless to have school in this heat because all of the teachers are near death, and the kids don’t do ANYTHING in class. They just sit there and zone out or sleep (seriously half of my last class was asleep). It is so fucking ridiculous and irritating!!!! BAH!
Also, I am about to offer to pay the fucking electric bill for my cheap-ass whore of a Kyoto sensei to TURN ON THE MOTHERFUCKING AIR CONDITIONING IN THE STAFF ROOM! WHAT THE FUCK! When it is 32 degrees, one would expect to have windows wide open, or preferably, air conditioning on. But we wouldn’t want to have flies come into the staffroom now would, we? And we wouldn’t want to pay like 2 extra yen for genki teachers, no! It’s hotter in here than it is outside! Fucking ghetto-ass country.
*this message has been brought to you by the Bitter ALT Association
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Various Photos
K, I was going to make the subject "Photos de Randomo," but realized I had already used that as a subject (or so says my entry history), then I was going to use "Random Photos," but that has been used, too. Sad, I'm not original. So you get the most boring subject ever for this one!
Here are "various photos" from my keitai and digicam....I was going to upload Korea photos while I was at it, but I realized that I have to wait to get everyone else's photos before I do that *nodnod*
I love me some grapefruits sours, even though I don't like grapefruit! When you order a grapefruit sour, you get a big glass of...sour stuff. I dunno, alcoholic stuff, then you get a grapefruit that you squeeze yourself and pour into the drink. Not only is it is fun, but it a) makes you feel very productive b) makes you feel like you're having a vitamin-enriched drink, and not something that destroys your immune system and c) is fresh! Fun stuff all around, I tell you. This is from Tokyo orientation (those weren't all for me, thank you).
To show you how awful my English is at the moment, I first wrote "sour" as "sower," then "sawer," then "saur." Then I was pretty sure it was "sour," but it looked wrong so I had to look it up in the dictionary. Oy.
Beware of the power of Japanese marketing! Coke was having the best "saabisu" (service) EVER for the World Cup....keychains that looked like poker chips. There was one for each country in the World Cup, with their flag and stuff on it. K, it doesn't sound cool, but it is! I swear ;) Hehe. Anyway, Tim introduced Cindy and I to them and we immediately went to every conbini near (and not near) us in order to collect the ones we wanted (might I add that it is embarrassing to empty a refrigerator of Cokes while looking for the World Cup keychain of your choice...and it's even more embarrassing to do so while on the phone saying "Okay, they have Saudi Arabia....shit, they don't have Japan! Ooooooooo, they have Korea, do you want me to get it for you?").
This is the baseball game we went to about a month ago. I am so macho!
While wandering around Ota (getting some necessary exercise between our two dinners that night, hehe) we ran into an izakaya called "Inaka." Inaka means like boonies, country, middle-of-nowhere. I was pretty amused and found it fitting that it's in Ota.
Here are "various photos" from my keitai and digicam....I was going to upload Korea photos while I was at it, but I realized that I have to wait to get everyone else's photos before I do that *nodnod*
I love me some grapefruits sours, even though I don't like grapefruit! When you order a grapefruit sour, you get a big glass of...sour stuff. I dunno, alcoholic stuff, then you get a grapefruit that you squeeze yourself and pour into the drink. Not only is it is fun, but it a) makes you feel very productive b) makes you feel like you're having a vitamin-enriched drink, and not something that destroys your immune system and c) is fresh! Fun stuff all around, I tell you. This is from Tokyo orientation (those weren't all for me, thank you).
To show you how awful my English is at the moment, I first wrote "sour" as "sower," then "sawer," then "saur." Then I was pretty sure it was "sour," but it looked wrong so I had to look it up in the dictionary. Oy.
Beware of the power of Japanese marketing! Coke was having the best "saabisu" (service) EVER for the World Cup....keychains that looked like poker chips. There was one for each country in the World Cup, with their flag and stuff on it. K, it doesn't sound cool, but it is! I swear ;) Hehe. Anyway, Tim introduced Cindy and I to them and we immediately went to every conbini near (and not near) us in order to collect the ones we wanted (might I add that it is embarrassing to empty a refrigerator of Cokes while looking for the World Cup keychain of your choice...and it's even more embarrassing to do so while on the phone saying "Okay, they have Saudi Arabia....shit, they don't have Japan! Ooooooooo, they have Korea, do you want me to get it for you?").
This is the baseball game we went to about a month ago. I am so macho!
While wandering around Ota (getting some necessary exercise between our two dinners that night, hehe) we ran into an izakaya called "Inaka." Inaka means like boonies, country, middle-of-nowhere. I was pretty amused and found it fitting that it's in Ota.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
South and North Korea
An interesting NY Times article about North Korean defectors' lives in South Korea. K, that sentence doesn't sound interesting at all, but read the article!
Suicide by pills may be cheaper than by train
An, er, interesting quote from an article about the Yamanote line in the Japan Times:
Yamanote Line traffic usually flows like water. But with so many trains hauling so many people about, it is inevitable that some occasional logistic snafus occur.
None is more unwelcome than the chaos that ensues when someone ends it all by jumping in front of an oncoming train. Last year there were 18 so-called jinshin jiko (human accidents), JR East spokesman Koichi Ueno said in an assertion which may surprise many regular users, for whom announcements of jinshin jiko delays seem far more frequent. According to officials, most jinshin jiko are suicides.
When a passenger jumps, the driver immediately stops the train, confirms the condition of the victim, checks for any damage to train machinery (brakes are particularly susceptible to impact) and communicates all findings to both the control center and his partner minding the back of the train.
Suicide delays generally last about 30 minutes, but can go much longer. JR East bills families of suicide jumpers for damages, with the requested amount commensurate with how many train lines are affected and for how long, said Shunichi Sekiguchi, another spokesman. Officials adamantly refused to discuss exact figures or the company's rationale for the policy.
Yamanote Line traffic usually flows like water. But with so many trains hauling so many people about, it is inevitable that some occasional logistic snafus occur.
None is more unwelcome than the chaos that ensues when someone ends it all by jumping in front of an oncoming train. Last year there were 18 so-called jinshin jiko (human accidents), JR East spokesman Koichi Ueno said in an assertion which may surprise many regular users, for whom announcements of jinshin jiko delays seem far more frequent. According to officials, most jinshin jiko are suicides.
When a passenger jumps, the driver immediately stops the train, confirms the condition of the victim, checks for any damage to train machinery (brakes are particularly susceptible to impact) and communicates all findings to both the control center and his partner minding the back of the train.
Suicide delays generally last about 30 minutes, but can go much longer. JR East bills families of suicide jumpers for damages, with the requested amount commensurate with how many train lines are affected and for how long, said Shunichi Sekiguchi, another spokesman. Officials adamantly refused to discuss exact figures or the company's rationale for the policy.
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