Another quick update


Timeline

3/18 - interview with MLS
3/19 - first phone contact with the Utsunomiya School
3/20 - did-nothing. Some research on ECE, interview prep, etc.
3/21 - stayed home to watch the soap-opera real life. The Afro girl is getting scarier and scarier by the minute
3/22 - Interview at Utsunomiya. Spend hours and hours going over time table and contract, etc. Then I looked at one apartment.
3/23 - Gave notice to Sakura house
3/24 - helped my roommate move her furnitures to Takadanobaba.
3/25 - Made an Inkan! Woohoo~
3/26 - did nothing.
3/27 - Sight-seeing with roommate in Odaiba. We even did all the tourist stuff like riding the ferris wheel...
3/28 - picked up my Gaijin card, and spend the rest of the day in Shibuya. I oogled at the camping gears, dry suits, kayak paddles, outdoors grills, etc. But bought nothing at the end. (Got myself a scarf at a fashion shop though. I also got some cozy wool socks ^_^)
3/29 - went to Hanami at Yoyogi koen, sampled snacks like takoyaki at food stalls, bought a charger for my ipod speaker in the speaker, but I don't think it works O_O;; My ipod is now corrupted.... bahh
3/30 - was going to go to Yoyogi koen again, but then it rained. Verbally agreed to confirm to rent an apartment unit that I haven't seen myself in Utsunomiya. Planned to do dinner with two french girls , but C is freaking out over every little thing, and generally being loudly indecisive. I got so annoyed that I wanted to snap at her and tell her to just stop apologizing, but that's probably just gonna make it worse, so I shut myself up and came upstair to blog.

All in all, I am really glad that I am leaving this sh!thole of a guesthouse. I know I am not being very tolerant, but it seems, every week, a new weirdo moves in. My roommate is easy enough to live with, but she can be selfish too -- like, when she wants to watch a movie until 2am, she takes it for granted that I should stay up with her and go to bed as soon as her movie is over. When I have some e-mails to reply to at 1am, she gets out of bed and tells me off for using my computer so late.

The new French girl is cool, we could actually have decent conversations like grad school, college life, travel experiences etc, instead of the constant gossips of diet and breast size and popular hair style and clothes etc. The french canadien girl is always glued to her though, and I am running out of patience for her constant apologies and worries. "Should I go to kareoke now or should I go later? Oh I am so mad at myself for wasting that 100 yen in the laundry. Oh I am really hungry and I want to eat some rice but I am going to get fat so fast! Oh I am so sorry I am not even helping with dinner, I guess I just don't deserve to eat. Oh I am so sorry. Oh I am sorry..."

Then the American girl came home to talk about her job interview. "Oh basically, by the end of it, they are like, like, like saying, WHAT!? YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN A MODEL BEFORE? YOU ARE KIDDING ME RIGHT. They are so sorry that I am leaving Japan in 3 months. They don't know what they are going to do without me."

That's the last straw, really. I am ready to admit that I am an old lady. I don't know why society likes to glorify the youthful feminine and immortalize them on magazine covers, when in reality, it's just a psychological pit of constant self-consciousness minus any degree of self-awareness.

Glad I am moving on.