tsukareta

Oh man, I am so tired. Being in this office drains my life force. As does working with kindergarteners.

We went to Kinomoto KG today for an hour and a half, and let me tell you, that is too long to try to teach English to little kids. They weren't awful like last year's bunch, but they were a little on the rowdy side. One kid clearly needs to be medicated. Another one is a fat, ugly hitter, so he's already on our shit list. But Ryouta (from the good class 2 years ago)'s little sister is in that class, and she looks just like him (so cute! with chubby cheeks!), so I'm looking forward to seeing her again.

Catherine and I are going to the gym today. Last time, I actually got up to a jog on the treadmill! I always fast walk, usually on an incline. But I think walking to work every day has helped with my endurance, since I didn't start gasping for breath immediately. Perhaps I will jog again today!

Only 30 more minutes.

i <3 shinbashi

Let me preface this by saying that I am drunk. Not like completely blind, but on the stronger side of buzzed. So whatever typos or sentences that don't make sense can be blamed on that.

Cat and I did gym today. It worked out pretty well. My heart rate was elevated for about 45 minutes, so I consider it a good day of exercise. Also, while I was on the treadmill, I had a clear view into the weight room through the giant windows, and one of the guys in there TOOK OFF HIS FUCKING PANTS and he had on this little speedo/bikini briefs and he just stood there looking at himself in the mirror. I had to call Cat over to look, but make it look like she wasn't looking. Then he put his pants back on, but immediately took his shirt off to look at his other half. WHAT.

After the gym, we came back and showered and got dressed, because Lauren wanted to go for a drink, as her day had been stressful. So we went to Shinbashi, which, aside from Yoro in Owase, is my favorite izakaya ever. Their chuuhais are soooooo good. Which is why I am in my current state. I had a blue hawaii (I don't know what flavor that is, but it's blue and delicious) and Lauren and I split a lychee. Thank god we split it, because it was STRONG. I wouldn't have managed the walk home if I'd had a whole one. Anyway, it was a good time. I love a good buzz. Sorry, liver!

Also, I've been fanatically checking the status pages of the schools I haven't heard back from, and Virginia's was updated today to say that a decision was made and it is being MAILED to me. BLURGH. Don't mail it to me, Virginia! Just use the awesome powers of the Internet to inform me of my fate. They have such a nice status page too, it's very nice, so I don't know why they don't just tell me there. So frustrating.

But oddly enough, I can get on the admitted students site, so either I got in and they're just bad about hiding it, or I didn't and they are cruelly getting my hopes up so they can be painfully dashed. I hope it's the former, as Virginia is one of my two top choice schools, along with Berkeley.

Now I'm trying to decide what to do before I go to bed. I don't think I should play SimCity, as I might drunkenly destroy my city, and I have a lot of money saved up, so that would piss me off muchly. I will probably hang out on the computer a big longer and possibly watch some TV on YouTube or something I've downloaded. Psych could be good.

b-i-n-g-o

It amazes me how much I love the kids at Ido Kindergarten, especially compared to my feelings toward the other group of kindergarteners. The Ido kids were so good today and it makes me sad to think that we will only see them one more time before the year ends.

Why is my boss still here? He's supposed to be gone! Blurgh. If he was just sitting at his desk, it would be fine, but he's never just sitting there. He's always on the phone, talking in his ridiculously loud voice, and he's right behind me and the sound weighs on me like a load of loud, obnoxious bricks. I hope he transfers in April. I hope so hard.

I thought I would explain the name of this blog, since I haven't before. It's a reference to Dinosaur Comics (these comics, actually), which is perhaps my favorite thing on the whole of the Internet. Seriously. I see a lot of myself in both T-Rex and Utahraptor, which is slightly disturbing, but also exhilarating, in that I am comparing myself to a dinosaur. Anyway, chocochops are, in the words of T-Rex, "moulded chocolate pork chops with a real pork chop bone." The combination of two of my favorite things, chocolate and pork, was too good to pass up as a blog title.

After work, as far as I know, we will be gymming, and after showers, going to karaoke somewhere. Karaoke is one of the best things Japan has ever produced (sushi and Rirakkuma being the other two), and it is much more fun to go in a small group, maybe 3-5 people. With big groups, you don't get to sing as much, and you usually have to listen to people try to sing Japanese songs, which totally takes the fun out of karaoke for me, as I have a very limited repetoire of J-songs, and nobody ever sings one I know. (Wow, look at that run-on sentence!)

I am super excited that today is Friday, because that means tomorrow is Saturday. Excellent.

The U.S.'s current economic downturn is doing wonders for my money transfers. Today the dollar was down to 105yen. It was 107 earlier this week.

I ordered flowers to be delivered today for Mom's birthday. I hope she gets them. I've never ordered flowers online before, but it was from a reputable company (or one that wasn't complained about on Consumerist). I got an email that they were shipping out, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I also felt bad that I'd ordered something for Mom, but Daddy wasn't getting anything, so I bought him season one of Boston Legal. He did do all of my financial aid stuff, so I figure that makes a nice thank-you gift.

little bastards

Today Catherine and I went to Kinomoto Kindergarten (aka the 9th circle of hell), and they weren't as awful as usual. The little bastards that always start fights were fighting at the beginning of class, and one of them was shrieking his head off, but after the principal took them out, things settled down. And the screamer actually played one of the games really well. It's a shame he's such a pain in the ass. I'm so glad we only go there one more time this year. Then it's a whole new batch of hellions.

After work, I went to the gym with Lauren. I hadn't been in a while and I definitely felt it. But I can feel my thighs getting fatter, so I need to go more often. Like tomorrow and the next day and the day after.

This morning I was doing my daily check of the law school status sites, and Georgia's had been updated. I got in! Yay! It was kind of funny because up until Tuesday, it just said my application had been received, and Tuesday it changed to say that my application was under review in a process that usually takes several weeks, and today, I got in.

I was too tired to make any real food for dinner, so I had some cheese and crackers with prosciutto. It was tasty, but it bothers me that prosciutto is nama ("raw") ham in Japanese. It's not raw! That's gross. Prosciutto is delicious.