05.11.03
Ahhhh yes, I had almost forgetten what sex was like.
05.10.03
As I'm sure you can imagine, there's a lot of goofing off that takes place when me and Fletcher congregate anywhere, and this is also (perhaps especially) true of when we're in the Town Office every Monday. We generally have fuck-all to do there, so we usually end up doing exactly fuck-all for the entire day. Lately though, we've been charged with producing an updated version of the Fukuma English Town Guide, which is a little helpful hint book that's given to foreigners who register for their Foreign Registration Identification Card with the Town of Fukuma. It's been kind of fun actually having something to do while in the office the past few weeks and has definitely helped the days go by a little quicker.
As expected tho, nothing can go down without a little inside humor here and there. While I was coming up with the layout for the Introduction page, I realized that I needed some text for composition purposes, but didn't have any of the content written yet. So in one brief succession of rapid-fire keystrokes, this stream-of-conciousness rambling plopped onto the page, accenting a particularly goofy afternoon of already bizarre humor. I offer it here, so you can see the kind of boredom we have to deal with in the office and how we (or I, anyway) choose to deal with it: baseless defamation of character and Star Wars references.
BTW, I'll probably post the whole English Town Guide as a PDF once it's finished, just for the fun of it. Probably won't be that useful to anyone, but it might be fun anyway.
PS - Fletcher's not really gay... I don't think.
PPS - Fukuma's not gay either. How could it be? I mean, really now...
05.07.03
Hmm, not so sure about this noise. I listened to a LOT of N.W.A. in Jr. High and High School and anyone who knows me will tell you that I talk a good game (an incredible game, really), but seriously I'm so passive I'd make Ghandi puke.
05.05.03
Wow, fantastic weather here this weekend. Me and fellow ALT Helen went to Fukuma beach to have fun, but since the wind was far too intolerable to be.... tolerated we packed up after a mere 10 minutes and started to head back, bitching and moaning about how nice it was and we wanted to be at the beach but the wind was just too bad (the last straw was when I opened my Shakespeare book and the wind ripped out the table of contents and carried them across the sand a few hundred feet before I could catch up. I'd say that warrants a growling frowny face: >:-( Grrrrrrr. )
As we were walking along said beach, we came across the newly remodled Pantai Bagus (we frequent a sister-restaurant of theirs) and stopped in.... and it rocked!! There was no wind at all, just sun, palm trees and all the Moscow Mules you could drink. Absolutely fantastic as the view from our table in today's photo shows. Just look at how relaxing it looks for God's sake!! And this is in my town! Sorry Dad, I'm am indeed trying to rub it in, I confess.
Of course, this was before the rain and humidity started today. You know what sucks about 90% humidity? Not the dampness. Not even the heat. The bugs. They sense that you're already feeling really gross and sticky so they seize the opportunity, in spite of their size, to leverage their annoyance factor and piss people off. I'm going to have to take a different route to school for a while because the one that goes along Saigo River that I usually take, while still perfectly acceptable for those who enjoy inhaling insects more than air, has gotten just too insufferable for yours truly.
And that's just the beginning. Today the oddest thing happened at school. Right after second period ended, the middle courtyard was overcome with a cloud, not a swarm but a fucking cloud of bees. It was crazy. I was cursing myself for not bringing my camera today! No one knows where they all came from all of a sudden or what attracted them to the barren courtyard of Higashi Chu, but people were freaking. All the windows had to be closed for most of the day, which as you can imagine in 90% humidity, SUCKS!!
By lunch time the bees were all over the shed in the middle of the courtyard and were starting to build a nest. Leave it to children to be complete fuckwads, they started chucking their umbrellas out the second floor windows at the roof of the shed where the bees were all swarming. "Hee, hee. Death is fun, let's piss off The Swarm!!" Eventually the principal called in a freaking beekeeper who came and put on his silly netted hat and sprayed some smoke-stuff out of a can at them untill they all got in his special 007 Beekeper Boxes and toted them away.
Just another day at Higashi Chu.
