Compositional Hibernation - Week 15 (August 19 - August 25)

Compositional Hibernation

Week 15

I bet you're wondering why there are more pictures of Fuji at the top of this post. Well, the simple fact is that, due to very poor weather and my need to save some money, I did essentially nothing this past weekend. I therefore compiled the top 5 pictures of Fuji as indicated by comments on Facebook filtered through my own impressions.

Like I said above, I did very little this weekend. The week itself was also fairly uneventful, most of my students having returned from various holidays and are getting back to a more regular schedule, which means English school is a go. I spent a good portion of the week peeling skin off my face from sunburn accrued during the Fuji climb. That was kind of unflattering and probably a bit scary for my kids classes.

The only other thing of particular note that occurred during the week was that on Wednesday I found out that my ex-girlfriend has started dating someone else. It was a weird downer after the euphoria I experienced in the wake of the Fuji climb. It's been 8 months, but it was still a little surprising I guess. You spend 5 years with someone, things like this still tend to affect you. It made Wednesday not that much fun. On the plus side, running that night was super easy, it's always easier to run when you're distracted. The week before Fuji all my jogs were super easy because I was so preoccupied with the climb.

Enough of that emo shit.

Rest of the week was okay, nothing spectacular, as previously mentioned. I got a number of souvenirs from my students from all the places they'd been, mostly food. It was quite good! I also told my story about Fuji multiple times, which was very enjoyable.

Saturday chugged into the station with no plans. I went home that night, and mucked about on my computer for a while. This was the genuine trend for the whole weekend. I read a bunch about digital photography, practiced composition a bit with my hibiscus as a subject and did some research on:

1. Getting British Citizenship
2. Universities for the future
3. Thailand

Why Thailand you ask?

Well, I'm going there next month for a short vacation, September 21- 29. If anyone has any recommendations on where to visit or what to see, I'm all ears. I really have no idea, it was kind of sprung on me. Hopefully I'll be able to save enough money to pay for everything while I'm overseas AND get a new SLR so that the pictures will be that little bit more scrumptious. I believe I'm threading the needle. Time to call in debts. Oh Ronnnnnnnnn...

I also called my family back in Canada and used up the remainder of my phone card that I had bought to call my mom from the top of Mount Fuji. Everyone happened to be at the cottage so I caught them there and had a chance to talk to a few of my aunts and my dad. My dad was cool enough to pick up a Montreal Canadians jersey for me and send it overseas, so that should be on the way soon. I'm looking forward to putting it up in my classroom in a couple months and start REALLY educating my students about Canada.

Sunday I spent finishing off Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. It's the first game I've finished since I got over here all those three and a half months ago. I'll be writing my review on CutSc3ne right after this. (edit: Tomorrow)

I also played a bunch of World of Warcraft. That's about it though, nothing else. Monday was much the same with the exception that I took 2 hours to go down to Shinjuku and buy a Lonely Planet book for Thailand. I've been studying it the past couple days. I also took my run a bit earlier than my usual 9 or 10 PM, which was quite nice for a change.

And that was pretty much it! Nothing too exciting, as might be the case with the next few weeks. I'll be curtailing my spending to prepare for the trip and hopefully the camera that goes along with it. We'll see how things work out.

Surprisingly, that's all for tonight! Cherish this accursed brevity while you have the chance! On to the next blog. Talk to you all next week, this is

Ian "Mello Yello" Cantello

signing out.