MS PAINT!!

I loves it.

SO how do I get it on my Mac I wonder? This I ponder, as I procrastinate. I'm gonna get it, and I'm gonna make me a professional quality banner. I'm thinking a peacock, or an old staple: penguin shot out of cannon.

While I'm at it, Solitaire. Need 90s(?) putah apps.

Prototype!!!!

Here's my little work-in-progress:





Actually, that's an earlier prototype. Here's a current one:




Note the changes, head and arms. Still not sure bout the head actually, and the arms...

I like him. He's not quite what I was going for, but I like him. Also I don't know if the little smoke clouds break the clunkiness of him, making it inconsistent. Any advice/feedback please!! (I'm just writing as though ppl actually read this, necessary fiction)

Ha.

My house is no longer cleanliness impaired but I ain't doing any of those things. I am working on an art project though. One I'm supposed to be *finished* dammit. I'm on a robot jag. I wanna design things. I gotta learn some software.

I'm exhausted. I need to get to bed. When oh when will I finish this project? I promise myself I will work on it a little every night. I think then I will be fine, as long as I don't put it off, being overwhelmed by the task. A little bit is fine.

Breathe!

Soon: must blog Taiwan and DISNEY. Hey if anyone actually reads this they should really nag me about it. Get nagging! Also: adventures in rampant consumerism, I has it.

PS mini-post: Space Mountain was CLOSED! WTF? And Star Tours was awesome, I don't care what Nick says.

To do:

This is not a to-do list, rather, it's a list of things I COULD do if my house weren't cleanliness-impaired.

- jigsaw puzzle
- super NES
- xBox, for that matter
- watch a movie/tv
- art/craft project
- start new book (might do that anyway)
- invite friends over (probably wouldn't though)

...

Torment

Torment is being terribly sick and being stuck inside a (ridiculously filthy) apartment while outside, life blooms verdant green in perfect spring weather.

Torment is having such a pigsty of an apartment. Hey, it was all fine until I had to tear it apart looking for my passport. Which was under a nintendo game cartridge. We're talking Super NES people, perfect size to hide a passport.

Torment is living this strange, liminal existence as an expat in a temporary contract job, loving the money and the travel, hating the job, loving the boyfriend, hating the distance. Do I stay? Do I pack up and face the inevitable - no career, probably uni again, no prospects?

Torment is having a backlog of photos from travels and a terminal inability to upload them to Facebook. Hyperbole? No. This could actually kill me, like if I get so frustrated I throw my laptop into kitchen sink and get electrocuted, or something.

Torment is teaching my third years. But that's a looong story.

Happy Mother's Day everybody!!!

Broom broom.

I made scones and as I don't have a scone cutter, I used a car-shaped cookie cutter instead. I bought it at a Tomica store in Osaka because I wanted a present for Nick:). How is it a present for Nick you ask? Um.

And they turned out delicious! But I can't even eat them all, because they are supposed to be for tomorrow's picnic. A Himeji 花見 (hanami) picnic that is.

Stoopid friends eatin all my damn scones.

LOLZ!

http://viv.id.au/blog/20080321.1558/newsflash-toys-now-indistinguishable-from-satire/



Femininity indoctrination AND fetish waiting to happen.


Done.

Spring is sort of springing, then unspringing..

It's cherry blossom time! I was supposed to go picnic-ing and hanami-ing in Himeji today, but the weather is not kind. But I'm secretly happy, cos I wanted to sleep in and be lazy:P. But I really do wanna go see that castle.

Experienced the 'changing of the desks' the other day.

So in Japan, teachers tend to follow their students into the next year level. Teachers are generally assigned a year level, rather than simply a subject. They also move around to the homeroom classes, the students don't move to a different classroom - except for certain subjects, like music or home-ec, that require special rooms. At the end of the school year, lots of teachers move to a different school, and they don't find out til the VERY last minute.

The remaining teachers, plus the new ones, all move desks. Why? Japan is all about groups/hierarchy yada yada yada. So the first year teachers all sit together, likewise 2nd & 3rd year teachers. When they all change year level they have to move their stuff to the corresponding group of desks in the staff room. You'd think they could just stay where they are and change the assignation but.. no. Maybe the placement of the section of desks reflects status or something. Like, the first year desks are furthest from the principle's desk.

Either way, the changing of the desks was chaos, and really funny. Can't explain why exactly.

Japan, you make me scratch my head.

PS - I'm not changing school, I'm assigned to Oike for another year. Not sure how I feel about it, but I have new JTEs. Here we go again!

I'm over snow.

Make the cold go away.

In other news - signed and sent off re-contracting form today. For all the bad things and the underwhelming things and the good things about being here - my decision was financial. I can save a ton of money here, and while I'm career-less (career prospects-less) and the economy's going down the toilet, I'm staying.

Now I just have to be a good girl and not buy tons of CUUUUUTE CRAAP!

Wow.

Didn't even realise I'd made posts on this. But there they are, right below. I somehow failed to mention that that 24 hour game arcade has a pool of real fish - for fishing. You can fish real fish. At an arcade. I'm not sure what you're supposed to do with them after. Put them back in? Take them home to eat?

So I get home from Singapore and it's pretty depressing and the next day I stay in bed until 2pm (and then again the day after). I'm finally up and pottering and whatever and I can see something through the lace curtain. It looked like snow. It was!! I wondered how long I had been missing it, but I think I must have caught the beginning. After a short while you could see things start to turn white as they got covered, and they weren't white to start with.

MY FIRST EVER SNOW. And also the first snow of the year, called hatsuyuki, 'first snow'. It was so pretty, fluffy, yay! It whirls around you, so I went out the day after to catch it on my gloves. 

It never occurred to me you could use umbrellas for snow. People going out had umbrellas - genius! Makes perfect sense! Not just for rain!

So anyway here's some pics:

Hanayama from my balcony.

Compare the view - before...

...after. Not much of an interval mind you.

Some videos to come.

:)