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This week was so long. My students are finished with their term end exam and I've finished grading all of them. I'm not going to any of my visit schools again until after winter vacation. So that left me with fuck all to do at work for the majority of the week (besides making the Christmas lesson, which took very little time). The week goes by so slowly when you have nothing to do.

Tonight was good though. I met meepalicious in Ikebukuro after both of us got off of work. I lent her Veda, my old laptop, because she's been having laptop issues. We also had dinner together. We opted for sushi and got chirashi-don, which was yummy. It was basically sashimi on rice, so I was happy. This weekend should be good, too. My birthday celebrating begins tomorrow night. serria and probably meepalicious are meeting up with me and we're going out to the bars in Ni-chome. I'm looking forward to it! Eri's going to visit me for a bit tomorrow afternoon, too, cause she's too busy to join in on the rest of my birthday plans on Sunday. Sunday's birthday plans are going to involve going to another dansou cafe in Ikebukuro. It should be fun I think. :3

Tonight is the coldest night here yet. I think it's in the upper 30s (Fahrenheit, not Celcius) right now. It's times like this when I curse the fact that Japan is not a fan of central heating. My little wall heating unit only does so much to warm my drafty apartment (buildings here also have horrible insulation). I'm going to go curl up under even more blankets now that I don't have to do things. Brr.

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This week was so long. My students are finished with their term end exam and I've finished grading all of them. I'm not going to any of my visit schools again until after winter vacation. So that left me with fuck all to do at work for the majority of the week (besides making the Christmas lesson, which took very little time). The week goes by so slowly when you have nothing to do.

Tonight was good though. I met meepalicious in Ikebukuro after both of us got off of work. I lent her Veda, my old laptop, because she's been having laptop issues. We also had dinner together. We opted for sushi and got chirashi-don, which was yummy. It was basically sashimi on rice, so I was happy. This weekend should be good, too. My birthday celebrating begins tomorrow night. serria and probably meepalicious are meeting up with me and we're going out to the bars in Ni-chome. I'm looking forward to it! Eri's going to visit me for a bit tomorrow afternoon, too, cause she's too busy to join in on the rest of my birthday plans on Sunday. Sunday's birthday plans are going to involve going to another dansou cafe in Ikebukuro. It should be fun I think. :3

Tonight is the coldest night here yet. I think it's in the upper 30s (Fahrenheit, not Celcius) right now. It's times like this when I curse the fact that Japan is not a fan of central heating. My little wall heating unit only does so much to warm my drafty apartment (buildings here also have horrible insulation). I'm going to go curl up under even more blankets now that I don't have to do things. Brr.

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The birthday weekend is off to a good start! I Skyped with my parents and stellawind like usual this morning. I was also able to briefly call DJ on Skype! Since leaving for Japan, we've only been communicating through Facebook messages because he doesn't have very good internet access right now. As a little present to myself, I bought a limited amount of minutes on Skype so that I can call his phone occasionally. He wasn't able to talk for very long this morning, but it was so good to actually hear his voice!  I'm hoping that I can talk to him again next weekend and get more of a detailed update about how he's doing (because he tends to brush aside those questions sometimes). I miss my bff.

This afternoon I briefly met up with Eri. She's too busy with her job searching to join my birthday celebrations this weekend, but she stopped by to wish me a happy birthday and give me a present! She gave me a fluffy brown blanket that has buttons at the corners, so it can also be worn as a poncho or bolero. It's quite cute. :)

Now, I'm looking forward to going out for drinks tonight!

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The birthday weekend is off to a good start! I Skyped with my parents and stellawind like usual this morning. I was also able to briefly call DJ on Skype! Since leaving for Japan, we've only been communicating through Facebook messages because he doesn't have very good internet access right now. As a little present to myself, I bought a limited amount of minutes on Skype so that I can call his phone occasionally. He wasn't able to talk for very long this morning, but it was so good to actually hear his voice!  I'm hoping that I can talk to him again next weekend and get more of a detailed update about how he's doing (because he tends to brush aside those questions sometimes). I miss my bff.

This afternoon I briefly met up with Eri. She's too busy with her job searching to join my birthday celebrations this weekend, but she stopped by to wish me a happy birthday and give me a present! She gave me a fluffy brown blanket that has buttons at the corners, so it can also be worn as a poncho or bolero. It's quite cute. :)

Now, I'm looking forward to going out for drinks tonight!