But at least I look thin, right?

Whoa guys. This week is not proceeding so swimmingly. I mean, I am getting all my work done and feel fine physically and emotionally, but the effort of getting all the things I need to get done this week has taken its toll on my grooming habits, or rather, basic hygeine. Every once in awhile you will get one of those weeks where you have too many lessons to plan for, have nothing to do for night classes, your principal wants you to make a speech, you have papers to grade and your car breaks down. List of hygeine problems because Forrest likes lists:
1. I have not showered since the weekend. It is Thursday.
2. I am wearing the same clothes I have been all week. And, when I say all week, I mean ALL WEEK. I wear this stuff to bed, too.
3. Makeup? Are you kidding? I don't have time to change my socks.
4. I am not even going to tell you what happened to teeth brushing and deodorant wearing.

Basically what I am saying is that I am unclean. Nothing has convinced me more that Japanese people cannot really tell what I look like than this week. I honestly think when they look in my direction they might see a blur because I have still gotten compliments on my appearance. The grades I taught yesterday couldn't stop freaking out because I looked so tall and thin apparently. Yes. Because I don't have time to feed myself.
But that is how you stay pretty.

---This is an interluuuuude....switching topiiiics (I am singing this out loud)-----

Speaking of singing, don't let your classes know that you can sing or play instruments at any level of proficiency because then you will become the new cd player. A younger class of mine was doing the seven steps song and they kept making me sing it alone over and over changing the numbers because it was fascinating to them.

Today's take away sentences:

"Your glasses look like my dad's."

Student: "What is beer in English?" Me: "Beer."
Student: "What is wine in English?" Me:"Wine."
Student: "What is juice in English?" Me: "....juice."

My text conversation with Dana:

dana[...]@softbank.ne.jp
do you still have mice?

[...]kvegan@ezweb.ne.jp
i might be winning the war against the mice but it is more a war of attrition than anything. like i am israel and they are palestine. in this analogy my house is gaza.

dana[...]@softbank.ne.jp
is there any meddling by the us?

[...]kvegan@ezweb.ne.jp
if we were to continue the metaphor, i guess the us would have to be rather ironically my boe* since they come to aid me in the fight and bring me supplies. as i feel grateful, a little uncomfortable and have to clean before they come over, i think it is a fitting comparison.

*(Board of Education. The administration building that runs my world.)

-----------------I am dying of a laaack of sleeeeeeep (sang as before)----------