My fate (as opposed to Conrad's Fate).
You know, I didn't really know what I was going to write about when I opened this "Post an Entry" page, but I think a brainstorm is coming.
Got to see a recorded version of Wicked last night. I stayed up until one watching it, and was late for school this morning. ^_^; That's quite all right, though. It's still summertime. I always seem to end up late at least twice during these long vacations where we go to school anyway.
Last week I was in Hiroshima for the prefectural orientation and then in Kure for a our city-ish orientation at the BOE. No one was really there, having taken off using nenkyuu (yearly leave). That made it easier and quicker--at least on Friday, where Mr. Sakata spoke to us each personally about our spots and how to get there. It's really weird taking over Vanessa's school's, but not so scary as it would be to be brand new walking into the place blind. I know Uekiyo-sensei a bit from the times I came to visit Vanessa at school. I think he's had time to get used to me a little already, since he's met me before. I made him laugh the other day (by something he remembered me saying several months ago), so I think it's progress. I know I like him way more than my other teacher, Mrs. Sakimori. lol He way more willing to listen to a JET's ideas and try to implement them. I hope we get to have a good time with the kids together.
Vanessa told me so much about the bitchy secretaries at both schools. I totally understand where she's coming from. Right now, I can laugh at their audacity (the whole "coffee incident" and the gossiping they love, as Vanessa told me). We'll see how I react when it's eventually directed at me.
Mmm...Last week, I got to go to karaoke three whole times(!!) in the space of four days. It was a little much, even for me. Must be getting old. ^^ I went on Thursday on my own and Saturday on my own, and then on Sunday with my host mom, sister Sayuri, and my host mom's fried Mrs. Kunimasa and her daughter Youko. I feel like I burned a lot of calories. And I always feel good when people seem to enjoy me singing songs. It's warms me right up. And people always seem to say the same thing...that they could "feel" my emotions in the songs. I always thought it was more that a non-Japanese person was singing Japanese songs. But I sing the songs I sing because they appeal to me and make me feel something--a shiver or a energetic feeling, or something. It's different each time. So maybe it's not just a fluke when people compliment me. I'm happy to sing for anyone who wants to hear yet another love song in Japanese, though. ^^ But only in the karaoke box. Not out on the street. That's completely different.
I'll definitely miss the karaoke boxes in Japan. Really makes me want to start my own karaoke business up in the States (or wherever I eventually live). It'll take a crap load of money and wrangling rights and all kind of stuff, surely. And why hasn't anyone already capitalized on this idea? If there was a karaoke box place in the US somewhere, I couldn't help but want to visit it at least once. Somebody, get on the ball, please!
Oops. Looks like this entry didn't have as much meaning as I thought. lol Oh! I know. I'll tell one of my future goals. I'm going to take this online Continuing Education class from a university in my hometown this October. It's an editing class, which is designed to be helpful for both writers and editors. I hope it sparks my interest in further learning, and I'll figure out what direction I want to go in from there. I don't want to go back to school just yet, but I don't mind learning something interesting and hopefully worthwhile.
I'm also in the planning stages on working out when I'll be going home to visit for a couple of weeks in Christmas. I want to visit Alicia in Reno for a couple of days at least during that time. I distinctly remember promising her that I would come to visit when I spoke to her for like two hours sometime in March. I even remember her (half-joking?) idea that we could pool our expertise and go into business together when we talked online a while back: Alicia with her advertising and graphic design background, and me with my professional/technical writing and editing semi-background. ^^ I've been thinking about it on and off since she mentioned it, and it's been several months since we last talked-talked. I'm thinking about it, though. I wonder if she still remembers that conversation.
And I'm kinda "Boo!!" to higher education at the moment. I don't want to have to write and present a thesis. I think I hate research. That's all thanks to McNair and Dr. Trites, I think. What a bitch of a time I had. Probably no worse than other people. Not fair that some people in the program just got by with a crap-ass essay, and then some of us had to suffer through data collection and contemplating punching holes through walls. Bah. Anyway, yes. Grad school. The idea of learning sounds nice, but not the idea of putting together a paper I'll never want to see or use ever again for the sake of being recognized as a graduate. But, hey. Maybe Carnegie Mellon doesn't make you do stuff like that if you don't want to. Hmm...Let me check. No, they just have you do an internship and complete 12 courses. Nothing about ::shiver:: big research, or...a thesis defense (::runs screaming out of the office::). Maybe Carnegie Mellon will be okay. Maybe I should think about applying finally. Mmm...Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's a big city. But it would only be for two years at the most, I guess. Unless I liked it up there in the cold. I just assume it's cold up there. I wonder...
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