August 10, 2006

• I Never Told You What I Do For A Living!

  To be honest, I don’t exactly know what I’ll be doing for a living yet either, but I have indeed found gainful employment for the summer! Its all warehouse work through an agency and as of 9:30 tonight I’ll be doing the late shift at UPS! Fun? Not really! But it pays, and thats what I need! Hopefully I’ll be moved on to a better paid, daytime shift elsewhere pretty soon but this should provide me with some much needed cash to see me through the summer, ease me back into University life and fund my, hopefully not too far off, travel plans! Not to mention a down-payment on my nearly finalised accomodation for September! I am also up and driving again, which makes life way easier but more expensive, considering fuel prices here have reached nearly a pound per litre in my absence!!! 

  
  

  Time for my Matt and Dani update! This is gonna be a pretty regular feature until the afore mentioned Mr. and Mrs. Lott get their internet sorted out, just to let everyone know what they’re up to. It also allows me to bask in their reflected glory and leech off their popularity!!! So here goes..

  
  

   Continuing the work theme, Matt started work the other day! Well, kinda…! He had to introduce himself, first to all the staff and then to the entire student body! He didn’t say whether in Japanese or English, but that kinda stuff is always super-fun in any language, huh? It all went OK by the sounds of it. They are getting settled into their new place, despite the current lack of hot water for the shower!!!   Dani’s JET placement allocated her a bigger, swankier apartment which they are considering moving into, but the plan for the present seems to be to maybe stay where they are for the first year, then move into Dani’s place later! They’ve been getting to know the area, taking in a local Chinese place (it was good!), locating a much needed hyaku-en (100 yen) store and a mall complete with restaurants, various stores, a library and a gym! And lots of people with dogs! Unfortunately the expense of setting up the internet at their place could mean that they have to wait for the first paychecks to come rolling in, meaning worst case scenario: no internet until the September 14th!!!   They can access the net via computers at the local library, but get only an hour per go and can’t log into their Xangas or comment or any of that stuff! Which blows! Occasionally they’ve got a very weak and sporadic wireless connection in the apartment block but it never lasts long enough to allow them to do any of the things they’d like to! All in all, everything is super-nice and super-neat! (He really did use “super” as a prefix a hell of a lot! Which is good, really.) They want us to know we are all loved and missed too! Awwwww!!! We all miss and love you too. Like kerazy!!! I’ll keep these updates coming, but we want you guys back doin’ them yourselves ASAP! Yo!?

  
  

  Thats all that I got for today! Nothing major planned for the weekend, just the usual gym and hangin’ out! Depending on my work situation I’ll be grabbing some Pizza Hut pizza tomorrow with my bro. Last time I had Pizza Hut was early April! Matt and I couldn’t even get through a shared large pizza! The results of our strict dieting! Wonder if my appetite has increased since then…?

  
  

  Oh yeah, one last thing before I quit… Nathan, Dave and I took in Warrior King at the cinema the other night! Its not the sequel to Ong Bak, which many people have been thinking, but is made by the same people and features a lot of the same cast! The fight scenes are sweet! Tony Jaa is freakin’ hardcore, dude! Highlights include him taking on a bunch of guys on inline skates and BMXs, kick-assing his way through a restaurant, fighting a Capoeira fighter in a burning, flooded out Buddhist temple and takin down like, 30 guys with a range of limb-snapping manuevers! (Every last sound effect was bones snapping, I swear!) Whatsmore, this film will really make you feel for Elephants!!!

  
  

  Love and Peace! From me and the Lotts! Lots and lots! (Uhhhh.. I bet that never gets old! )       

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