I have a few videos taken with my phone I wanna upload but I'm having a bit or trouble transfering them online. Hopefully, I'll figure it out soon and shoot them up. As always, thanks to my web guru Tu for all the help thus far.
There have a been a few developments with work in the last week or so. I've been here for close to 3 months now and the nagging thought of my visa slowly running out has started to set in. I know it's still very early in my stay but I'm a worrier by nature so I can't shake it. My current work holiday visa only lasts for 6 months and can be renewed for another 6 if the government deems me "acceptable". I haven't broken any laws except for forgetting to turn on my bike light at night (for which I've been stopped and warned about twice already by the local cops) so I think I'm in the clear. I've been a good boy.
Anyway, with time becoming a factor I made a logical work decision last week and it seems to be paying off. I can't give details at this point but let's just say I thought about it long and hard.
It was my grandma's 90th birthday last week (the one that got that crank call a while ago) so I sent her a card and some castella which is Japanese sponge cake. I don't know why they call it that. Maybe it's french. She wrote back with a nice thank you letter and made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
I picked up the first volume of Kazuo Umezu's Hyōryū Kyōshitsu or "Drifting Classroom" the other day. I've been on a horror kick for the last little while so it was only a matter of time until I got to this book. I see Viz is publishing it for the NA crowd. Anyway, it's very good. For a book that was published over 30 years ago, much of it still rings fresh and appropriately terrifying. The slow progression into insanity is beautifully paced and the efforts of retaining normal life by the students (like eating a school lunch) gets so twisted on it's head it's sublime. I'm a big fan of Minetaro Mochizuki's Zashikionna which is another famous horror book but DC is quickly becoming a contender for my top spot. Just look at that face and the spotted black. Like, fuckin' eh!!
TAK
There have a been a few developments with work in the last week or so. I've been here for close to 3 months now and the nagging thought of my visa slowly running out has started to set in. I know it's still very early in my stay but I'm a worrier by nature so I can't shake it. My current work holiday visa only lasts for 6 months and can be renewed for another 6 if the government deems me "acceptable". I haven't broken any laws except for forgetting to turn on my bike light at night (for which I've been stopped and warned about twice already by the local cops) so I think I'm in the clear. I've been a good boy.
Anyway, with time becoming a factor I made a logical work decision last week and it seems to be paying off. I can't give details at this point but let's just say I thought about it long and hard.
It was my grandma's 90th birthday last week (the one that got that crank call a while ago) so I sent her a card and some castella which is Japanese sponge cake. I don't know why they call it that. Maybe it's french. She wrote back with a nice thank you letter and made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
I picked up the first volume of Kazuo Umezu's Hyōryū Kyōshitsu or "Drifting Classroom" the other day. I've been on a horror kick for the last little while so it was only a matter of time until I got to this book. I see Viz is publishing it for the NA crowd. Anyway, it's very good. For a book that was published over 30 years ago, much of it still rings fresh and appropriately terrifying. The slow progression into insanity is beautifully paced and the efforts of retaining normal life by the students (like eating a school lunch) gets so twisted on it's head it's sublime. I'm a big fan of Minetaro Mochizuki's Zashikionna which is another famous horror book but DC is quickly becoming a contender for my top spot. Just look at that face and the spotted black. Like, fuckin' eh!!
TAKposted by TAK at 3:30 AM
