May 2013
girlfriends
I like going to this saturday class when I can, because my friend goes and we sort of hang out and have a chat and catch up.
I need some more girlfriends. I mean, girlfriends I can go out with (this friend is sober, no going out for drinks). I can hang with another friend on sundays, maybe afternoon/evening after her hangover clears up, because she’s a hostess who works all night and sleeps...
tomato jam
Tomato jam. So good.
Everyone almost licked the jar last night.
I know it sounds weird but believe me, it’s awesome.
We hung out with this guy who we found out lives in the neighborhood, iraqi jew, family in israel, canadian passport, so funny. I haven’t hung out with another jew in ages, and it’s weird, but i realized i missed it.
in bed, falling asleep, I said to my man...
Thanks so much! Choosing the Gaijin Card story!
Thanks y’all! That was so helpful, thanks so much!
4 and 5 were very close, but it was 6 by a long shot. And I think that’s great because in a lot of ways it’s universal and relevant today (even though it was written in the 1950s), and I think it would have meaning for people in the English speaking world too. Which is important for a translated work.
I like that one,...
help me choose please?
Trying to choose which story to send in to the university publication.
The author I translated was one of the first major zainichi (ethnically Korean) writers in Japan. He wrote about the early days, during Korea’s colonization and the days when Koreans were part of the Japanese Empire, to the switchover when suddenly they were “foreigners” even though they had nowhere to go and...
DIY
I have gone completely DIY.
Koenji’s a pretty hippy type of place (while, thank god, still being the city). I have a herb garden that’s finally settling down and looking alright, I’ve been making jams and pickles, always some sun tea in the fridge, my man makes his own beer.
It’s nothing major, but it’s nice. These days I don’t leave the house much.
Got so...
pink flowers
Well, feel a little better.
I feel like I’m losing my mind right now. What I’m going through is actually a form of psychosis (my friend says), and I have to say, if this biological clock is this hard to deal with, I am NOT looking forward to menopause, because I might actually murder someone.
My man bought me a pot of pink flowers for my desk to cheer me up. The tag said...
everything is shit
Oh my god, this is just one of those days when EVERYTHING’S fucking going wrong.
I want to punch something. Seriously, it will really make me feel better.
Everything’s going wrong.
I feel like everyone’s hassling me.
But that’s life.
Maybe it’s like when I get a migraine (which I haven’t had in awhile). It’s just never going to get better, my...
at least I found my electronic dictionary
Oh, job fell through anyway.
Translation/interpretation into English is good because it’s the default language for the world. But at the same time, it’s not the first language for a lot of the world.
So if they can find the someone who can do the rarer language, it’s much better.
It’s like you’re always the second best, backup.
English is still a wonderful...
ugh
Oh god, I just found my electronic dictionary. It is filthy. Disgusting.
And it’s so old!
Ugh.
Maybe I should get a new one.
been awhile
First interpreting job in awhile. I’ve been all busy/lazy with these game translations.
Better get some batteries in my electronic dictionary. Where the fuck did I put that thing?
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hard work
Well I don’t know what happened, but he came home from his pub crawl thing as the sun was rising, alllllll ready for some loving. He had a job interview this morning, which he got a haircut for, but he said fuck that, I want to stay up all night/morning on you.
He has endless energy.
he said he got hit on by some young girls, and he was all happy about that.
I love him. But relationships...
moving on
Why are friends so awesome? Got to connect with some really really close ones tonight. Putting things in perspective, making me laugh, all that good stuff.
My professor emailed me. She told me to get permission from the estate of that writer I did my thesis on, so that I can get one of my translations published in the school publication.
And I need to do that.
Enough with this silly business of...
alright.
He works on Saturday evenings, and when the mini me’s here, I have to watch him.
Which is fine, but then I can’t go to this roller dance class I like to go to with my girlfriend. And I like that class.
But it’s alright.
ms-tek replied to your post: shock
So you’re not to allowed to have fun because you’re 33 with a degree? I’m 37 with a degree… I must be really immature!
I can have fun, but I shouldn’t be doing the dumb event jobs I did when I was 22 again, after finally getting my graduate degree.
cheap
He went to some cheap pub crawl thing.
Fuck that shit.
I said, that sounds like something I would have avoided like the plague when I was single, because it’d be a great place to get hit on by a loser cheap bastard.
I used to wonder why I never bumped into him even though we lived in the same city for ten years. But we really ran in different circles. For real.
Cheap pub crawl. Fuck...
shock
One of the dance schools asked me if I wanted to do a two day job for this weird ass event for this thing. I don’t want to name them, even though I’d never heard of them before. But they’re these comedians who dress up in skin tight tights with only holes cut out for the eyes, nose and mouth, and they go around being weird.
But then I remembered that I’m 33 with a...
haaaard
I’m never going to be able to roller daaaaaance! It’s so hard!
It’s one of those things that you look kind of stupid even if you’re very good. You have to be REALLY good, or you look like you’re having a spaz attack.
I’m going through some hormonal shit. Jesus. I did NOT know this shit was so hard. Pretty much everyday, I feel like I could kill someone with my...
just when you've given up
I have a pocket wifi, and we’ve been using that for internet.
Because it’s taking FOREVER to set up internet in our house! We had to request permission from the agency, who had to ask the landlord, who had to request permission from the apartment union, and blah blah blah.
I had honestly given up. We decided, alright, pocket wifi in our house is how it’s going to be.
Then, I...
riyality replied to your post: evil
I don’t get it!! not yet?? wait until when? now’s as good as any other time… no? i feel annoyed all the way over here!
Your annoyance doesn’t even hold a candle, girlfriend…
It’s torture!
bakaple
Getting back into shape is a tough process. I’m pretty much in pain all over my back and all over my legs. So basically, everywhere. Bruises everywhere too. Mostly it’s my back that’s in pain.
I’m going to an aerial silk class today. So, I’ll probably have some rope burns to match!
Woke up, my man had made coffee and set up a “yoga for shoulders and...
evil
My man said “not yet.”
Then when, when my eggs have dried up? Because if they do, I don’t think I could ever, ever forgive him. The resentment, the rage, it would eat up everything.
Every accomplishment and every milestone his son makes is so wonderful, but it’s another nail into my heart. I wish it wasn’t but it is.
There’s a reason stepmothers are...
shoulder
Well fuck me, I seem to have fucked up my shoulder somehow.
The dance teacher was funny today though. She was like, “first you’re water, and then when the rhythm starts, it’s like the water’s getting sucked up into a tree, and then the tree’s blossoming and growing, and then there’s a rainbow!”
I felt like I was in a modern dance class back in college....
outsiderinsider replied to your post: waltz
Victory! Your man has hammer pants too? I have mostly been able to kibosh that shit.
Yeah, he did for his pajamas, but he tossed them out when the crotch hole grew and grew until they were basically tear away male stripper pants!
booty
So Nicki Minaj’s booty isn’t real, what?
I have a big booty.
I’ve lied and said I’ve had surgery on it, and people have believed me. It’s very three dimensional and big and gravity defying.
I don’t know why. But I do.
Japan isn’t big on booties. Probably because 99% of the girls here have flat butts, so the concept just never took off.
Lucky for...
waltz
I taught the boy to waltz! 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-spin with me, 1-2-DIP!
He got the hang of it. Then I tried waltzing with papa, and things didn’t go quite as well. His mini me said, “dude, I’m worried about how much you suck at dancing, papa.”
He can skateboard, but he can’t really dance. In fact, when we went roller skating, he did this weird, kicking with...
end
I guess that’s the end of Golden Week.
Tired.
We just tried to bring the mini around different places and exhaust him, and mission accomplished for exhausting ourselves.
I need an extra day to recover from Golden Week. Anyway, back to work.
Finally exercising again, reserved a few classes this week, woo! Gonna go back to my bruised up self. Got one tomorrow I almost forgot about! Every...
wahine-yo replied to your video: P!nk - Please Don’t Leave Me Me and the Mini Me…
I fucking love this video. Never saw it before! love it!
Have you heard her latest album? TRY is on repeat in my house right now!
kings
I wonder if kids just think adults are machines that cook and clean for them and entertain them. They’re the kings of the castle.
But I’m not that old, I remember being a kid and know that it feels different. You feel out of control and small.
Anyways. back to the grind of life. And life isn’t too bad, all things considered.
the force
Happy May The 4th.
We watched Empire Strikes Back.
When Papa was in the shower, the Mini Me said all secretly that his mama bought him some lego star wars thing. I said why is it a secret? He said just don’t tell Papa. I said alright.
What the fuck!? Why do I have to keep secrets now? I hate secrets, mostly because they’re so annoying.
Then he tried to convince me to buy myself...
level
My man sometimes complains that his Japanese is getting worse because he just speaks English to me. And he said we should have one day a week when we just speak Japanese.
Which actually would be a little bit cool, because it would give me an excuse to correct all the little mistakes that annoy me so much.
Plus, I don’t know if having full Japanese girlfriends who couldn’t speak...
Wave
I saw his baby mama again today. He made me wait over in the corner, I waved and smiled at mini me, and she must have thought I was waving at her because she waved and smiled back.
That was nice.
Cinco de mayo
Mini me doesn’t share my love of dance. The live band at the cinco de mayo festival was rocking, but he wouldn’t dance with me, even when they played Don’t Stop Believing! So so very wrong.
He dances around the house though.
So pissed I forgot my kindle.
Coffee
Pole dance, it was alright. Nice easy class to ease me back into things. And it’s in my hood which makes things nice. Everything’s in my hood!
This weekend, we’re going crazy with the kid, taking him places and stuff. Last days of the Golden Week holidays. I love the little guy but dude, if only my man knew what it puts me through, and how it hurts my biological clock,...
