02/08/2008: "I'm done being sick.. you hear me?? Done!.... I wish."

I hate being sick. With a passion. I usually do my best to avoid it or, at the very least, minimize sickiness.. but no go. The one thing I have going for me is that I'm not experiencing nausea, just a "from the bowels of hell" cold kinda thing. Stuffy, achey, tired, have a fever and headache.. oh yeah, it's pretty exciting. Ideally, I can rest over the weekend and try to get over at least some of this.. or even better, maybe I'll be better by next week! Alas, I'm not an optimist.. but I'll pretend anyway.

Other than that, I decorated the computer lab for Valentine's day, and it looks nice and ready for the holiday now. I'll include pictures when I have some time to upload them (I actually have the pictures with me and my camera, but no way to upload them to the PC I'm on at work.. darn). The rest of the week was pretty much occupied with doing homework, school, or work. This weekend, in between starting a transcription project, I'll be going to a musical on Sunday.. should be fun! They have a nationally recognized (or so I hear) theater here on campus, and the woman who runs the program has daughters that will be in it and offered up some good seats to my boss at a discount rate, which has been passed onto me. I can't very well turn that down, now can I?

I've also been doing some more research into the city I'll be moving to in Japan. Overall, seems like a nice enough place; nice climate (except that it rains >75" per year.. note that my city now rains ~7" a year), fair size (kinda smallish, but better than being in a farm town of 1k people or one of the biggest cities), and pretty decently located (though note that Japan is roughly the size of CA, so getting from one city to another isn't all that much of a problem no matter where you are). We should start the contract and visa work in March, so.. time's ticking.

I need to install or otherwise make some better form of photo sharing/uploading system for my website soon. While it works pretty decently for when I want to show a picture or two, it leaves some to be desired when it comes to large quantities of photos, like going to Vegas, London, Korea, and other things like that. Seriously.. how else will I be able to send massive amounts of pictures out to people in an efficient manner?

Well, I've rambled enough, so I should probably get to reading this book on "Basic Connections: Making Your Japanese Flow".. we all know reading grammar books in your free time is the most awesome activity.

As a random aside: why do we have AARP magazines for the students to read? These are mostly 20-something year old students from other countries.. I don't imagine they possibly associate with the issues that aging Americans are facing in America's current socio-economic situation. Or perhaps I'm just analyzing this too much and these are just some magazines available for students to read to get some English in..


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