What's new, Mindy-loo?

2038-01-19T03:14:07Z

This week, eh? It’s been OK, all things considered. I’m still humming and hawing over when I’m going home. But I’m leaning towards August. But I still wanna talk to my parents. They’ll want me to come home soon. However they’re really good about looking past their biases and listening to what I worry about. Except the “no water in winter” thing. However. Perhaps this summer, my dad will...I dunno...wrap something in tinfoil? *blinks*

I found out today that I’ve been accepted to all the college programs I applied for. This is not surprising. It’s not university. It’s college. So adjust the terminology to fit the education system in your country. I already have a BA. Now I’m going to learn some practical stuff that might help me get a job. Woo! The program I reckon I’ll go with is Social Service Worker. In university, I spent two summers working as a Case Aid worker for Ontario Works (Read: The Welfare Office) and I really liked what I was doing. That is the kind of job I’d like to get when I finally grow up. Ahem.

Anyhoo, it wasn’t a huge shock that I got accepted. It’s an open enrollment program and I more than meet the entrance requirements. Even if I’d never graduated from high school, I’m old enough to qualify as a mature student (ha!) as long as I can pass a literacy exam. I probably couldn’t get as high a TOEIC score as Hiroko, but I’m confident I could pass a basic English literacy test.

Now I just need to decide if I wanna start in September.

What else has gone on this week?

The grocery store I usually go to never fails to horrify/mystify me. Not the store itself. But the other customers are…a special treat. These are my neighbors! In the height of summer, old men will be walking about in open shirts and cut off jeans so short that the pockets are dangling out the hems. And they will have at least one hand in said pocket…testing the produce. But that is a seasonal treat. This season, the treat is little kids shopping with their mums and grandmas at 10pm. The kids will be wearing pajamas and flip-flops. No socks. IT’S JANUARY! Why are they even here at 10pm? Shouldn’t they be in bed? Couldn’t mum OR grandma do the shopping? And the children are always crying. Maybe their feet are cold. Maybe they’re tired. Maybe they just like the sound of their own sobs. But they wail. How am I supposed to enjoy the happy “niku niku niku” song with that racket?? Actually, recently the song has changed to “Watashi no otomodachi…korokke!” Good times!

The kids are always happier at ドンキホテ. It must be all the different kinds of Downy. It makes for a happy atmosphere. And when did we get THIS many flavours of Downy? It’s . . . .overwhelming!

Anyhoo, so my grocery store. The other day there was a high school girl doing her shopping. In her basket she had a pineapple. That’s it. She was going all over the store with JUST a pineapple in her basket. It was the only item in the store that caught her fancy enough. I really started to wonder what a high school girl needed with ONLY a pineapple. I considered following her home, but it was a windy day and her skirt was really shirt. I wanted to learn about the pineapple but ONLY the pineapple. I have seen more than enough underpants in this country already. Sigh

Ear Cleaning. Why is it such a couple-y thing to do? Just . . .why?

Have I ever shown you the canopy I’ve made from the shiny streamers that shoot out of air cannons at concerts? This is made of streamers from V6, Tokio, News and K8. When I leave, I don’t think I’ll be able to take it down without wrecking it. Luckily, the last K8 tour has left me with two grocery bags of streamers. (One silver, one multi coloured!!) So I will be able to take some home with me. Phew.

The view from my bedroom door.

Before I go to sleep, this is what I see!

The veiw from my closet. So...when I have lads held hostage in my room, this is what they see!

Some people might suggest that no one over the age of 12 should have a canopy over their bed. Those people can kiss my arse!

I’m a bad person.

I made a friend on Mixi. I met him a couple times. I have decided . . .I don’t actually want to be friends with him. He’s a nice enough guy. But I don’t speak enough Japanese and he doesn’t speak enough English. We have nothing in common. I’m quite confident that if my Mixi profile didn’t say that I was Canadian, he’d have never messaged me (if you know what I mean). He lives in Tokyo (i.e. Kinda far away). It is exhausting spending time with him (Hello, language barrier). In almost every mail, he asks when we can meet again. So I started ignoring his mails. I have ignored him for about three weeks now. He still mails everyday. Now he’s a nice enough guy, if I had any sort of spine at all, I’d tell him that I’m not interested in talking to him. But I don’t have any real reason to give him. He’s not done anything wrong. He’s just not interesting.

So do I keep ignoring him? Or tell him something? If so, what?

My students continue to be a-dor-able. I want to start a new club at school. I’ll call it: Teenage Japanese Girls Play With my Hair. Yay! QT Sensei can join too. But I might faint.

Right now, I’m making nabe in my slopw cooker. It’s pissing me off how slow it’s cooking. There is something wrong with me.

I’ve been watching too much Katt Williams comedy clips. The man is beyond funny, but I’m beginning to think that “mother fucker” is an acceptable term to describe things. Perhaps I should cut back?

Cancelled lessons and LJ memes are a winning combination!

I bought some lavender oil stuff that I put in the big red kerosene tank. So now my stove/heater smells like lavender. This is a seriously awesome development in my life. Seriously.

So that’s my week. How have you been?

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What's new, Mindy-loo?