Another rushed entry

when oh when will I get the internet in my apartment? Earlier this week I was advised that the library has free internet. So here I am.... typing... as quick as my little (giant to most japanese people) fingers can manage. I have exactly fifty minutes to play on the computer. Wait! Only forty-five. You see there is a timer ticking away on teh screen. This library is high tech. At any rate, come hell or high water this computer will shut down when my time is up. Lucky me.

anyway I`m trying to use this little bit of time as best I can. I`m not allowed to send email but I can do other things like try to better coordinate my personal initiative to pay bills.

I should give a quick update shouldn`t I. Um, I recently got paid. My paycheck wasn`t shit. I mean really nothing. I had like a cajillion deductions. This was my first paycheck so I had to pay 2 and a half months of rent, electricity, local tax and something else that I forget now. The point is that I will be trying to stretch my little rice rations slightly farther in the coming days.

hmmm. Here is a new one. My job is making me sick. Like really sick. I have had a child-induced cold for the last week. I`m just a little tired of seeing little clouds of germs rushing me... The kids are still cute though. So you can`t be to mad. I`ll try to sleep more and eat some fruit. y`know viatamin c and shit.

I finally got a cell phone, but only one person not in Japan has called me. Thank you Rasha. I officially feel important. Everyone else... $&%&%$&#%$#%#%#$%#%#$%#%"#!$'&'(( Call me dammit!!!!!

To put my phone number here or not to put my phone number here... that is the question.
if you want to calll me leave a note on the blog. I`ll drop you dem dere digits.



twenty minutes left. What can I add. Well hell. I was gonna try to load some pictures on here, but this fucking high tech library has locked, and I do mean physically locked the A: drive and both front facing usb ports. Bitches.

Oh shit this very creapy old man just walked up to my computer and stared at me. Not the stare of someone who is just curious. oh no. this was the wobbly I might be drunk and/or crazy at noon stare. I`ve grown very accustomed to the "OOOooooo, Big Gaijin" stare. I get it everywhere. Last night this guy stopped and shouted something like Sekiyara at me. My friend said it meant I was big. I thought it meant I`m drunk because that guy had definetly downed his weight in liquor.

These rushed entries are long.

How`s this for wrong. Today I am making spaghetti with tofu.

Rushed... kinda

I really don`t have much time to get a decent "write" on. I`m actually paying for this time. I`m at this internet cafe... 400 ￥ an hour. The words highway robbery come to mind. Anyway, I`m fighting this japanese keyboard and just wanted to report that today has been my best day in Ogaki yet.
I honestly didn`t do much today. I went bowling, to the arcade, saw a movie, and ate lunch with a couple of my coworkers. I guess that counts as a lot.

anyway. My schedule at the school is hectic. I think my boss is pushing me off on the parents at a reduced rate and that is why I keep getting more and more students everyweek. right now I`m up to forty students. That doesn`t sound like a lot but at least fifteen of those students are private lessons. Private lessons are a pain because you have to prepare a complete different lesson plan for that little bastard.

I`m a little scatter brained right now. I`ll com back and fix this.






I want to get rehired though. I want to do this for about three years, so I have to put foward my good face. At all times.

My apartment is cool. I like it. I`ve said that before.

I have pictures. I always seem to end up at a computer with internet at awkward times though. I`m gonna have to start carrying my flash drive everywhere.