It’s been two weeks since my last post. I
really should have been able to write at least one maybe two posts in the
interval since, but I didn’t. I don’t remember what happened in the last week
of school, except that I had my first day at the other elementary school. The
fifth grade teacher was great, but the other teachers not so much. They were
like some of the teachers in Kikyo—in the class, maybe directing, but not
engaged.
I wanted to go plant rice in Niigata for
two or three days during golden week, but my reservation wasn’t accepted so I
didn’t go. My pastor invited me to join some families for a day camp/barbecue,
but I got a bad headache on Monday and Tuesday and ended up not going. In fact
I couldn’t concentrate on doing much of anything during those days, so I
watched a movie in English. Even that I had a hard time concentrating on, but
that could have been partially because of the movie. It was “Rise of the
Guardians”, which is a popular world for fanfiction. The movie had some
potential, and wasn’t cringe-inducing like a lot of movies, but it was too
focused on inhumanity and thus seemed irrational.
I felt better on Wednesday and went
climbing. I cooked several good meals, but in the end I don’t think they’re worth
trying again. I wrote maybe 500 words of a Harry Potter fanfiction while
slightly intoxicated, and while I think it was well-written syntactically and
interesting dramatically, the plot didn’t make much sense. On Friday I went
climbing and on my last climb, I strained a finger joint. The finger really
hurt, and it became swollen. Even now it hurts a bit and is definitely swollen,
so I think I’m going to cancel my rock climbing trip for this weekend.
Also on Friday I did a bunch of cleaning
and went shopping and tried to finish making my apartment hospitable. I
finished my closet, but the kitchen still needs a bit of work. I did buy a nice
spice rack though, which makes my countertop look a little nicer. That night
after climbing I went to the bar with Abe-sensei. I talked for a long time with
some funny guy whose English was not very good but he was fearless in using it.
He kept saying “I am tired and she (his wife) is angry.” And he would say
things like “Do you know (famous person)? He is my (father/mother/daughter).”
It was funny.
So in the end my golden week disappeared
mostly into time unknown. I did spend a lot of time on the kittens game, which
I restarted, and about 25 hours on Factorio because a new version of the game
came out. I also tried to play Knights of the Old Republic, but I ended up
spending a lot of time trying to plan a character so I kind of got frustrated
and only played a couple of hours. That doesn’t seem like it accounts for the
hours that disappeared, but it’s all I have.
