Broken

If that snow doesn't go away by the time my plane wants to land at DIA on Friday, there will be some serious trouble in the skies.
Things have overall been unpleasant recently. Reasons for which I can't begin to explain, but it's that complex where everything happens all at once and the straw breaks the alsn's back. (And since everyone here calls me a "child" I find it perfectly acceptable to break down crying in the teacher's room when said straw breaks said back.)
Still, there are people out there going through much worse, right now. Like Melinda, or Maggie... or even Rea out there in Thailand. Yea... I can't compare with that stuff. You guys are cooler than me.

Ah well. Here's hoping this isn't my last post ever due to some fatal plane crash in the bazillion flights I'm taking tomorrow. Cheerios!

This is so ridiculous...
Can someone explain where your stats come from?

COMBAT CARDS 2.1

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RULES: Each player of this game starts off with 10 weird things/habits/little known facts about yourself. People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 10 weird habits/things/little known facts as well as state this rule clearly. At the end you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. No tagbacks.*

1. I am obsessed with the sound Japanese trains make as they go past the rice fields. It always makes me smile.
2. I generally don't enjoy anything in the moment, but after it's done I look back on things with great fondness.
3. I have spent more time in a hospital bed than at the gym.
4. My friend Tydan York, David "Ryu" Cocran, and I used to fight with real swords in front of Ty's house when I was in high school. I never realized how stupid that was until recently.
5. I secretly wish I had no posessions.
6. I run my tongue over my front teeth a lot after I've brushed them cause I like the feeling.
7. I have only ever persued things in life that have come naturally to me- with Japanese being the one exception. It is the only thing I've battled on with after failing miserably at every level.
8. I often regret the plans I've laid out for myself and wish I had chosen to lead a humble and easy life near my family and friends.
9. I hate meat, but I love hot dogs.
10. Even though I was a lighting technician for 4 years, I hate heights and have mild vertigo.

....and I'm not gonna tag anyone cause I hate that.
EDIT:
I tag
Lauren
Rea
Mutual Soul
and Marrrrie!
Tally-ho!
It's so refreshing to do mindless memes.

Living takes so much time... how does anyone have time to be great?

LOOK! Look, you! Just look at this movie!
http://www.panslabyrinth.com/
GET THIS: The Director, Guillermo Del Toro, says, "I love the fairy tale illustrations of Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, and Kay Nielsen." Oh, and who are Alsn's favorite artists? Hmmmm. Let me think! DAMN, THIS IS GONNA ROCK!

This movie deserves a tea party like none other (except maybe Alice in Wonderland).

December 30th is officially the date of the next Mad Tea Party. All of those who've been to prior Mad Tea Parties are invited, uninvited, and invited again without delay. There will be tea from the orient and mad costumes, as always, are mandatory else you be booted from my porch, and don't forget to bring your own mad tea cup! The time shall be after 2:00pm, but the time of the movie has yet to be decided for reasons I can't justify. Please drop an RSVP if you'll be in town (colorado-wise), send your snail mail address, and you'll be suited with a proper invitation at the appropriate approaching time.
If my excellent friend, and worst enemy (Oh, the opposites of madddddness!) Melinda Mystell Magnificent will be in town, I'd simply die for her co-hostingship, as she has been with me since the inception and death of the Mad Tea Party lineage.

Cheers all!
And have a happy leaky faucet day.

Alsn fills time while the students wax the floor. ... this would never happen in America. They won't let me help because my clothes are too nice. HA! That also would never happen in America. Where are my paint pants when I need them?
Speaking of paint pants... a meme about my senior year of high school:
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This is what happens after Kindergarteners have sucked the life out of you.
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Bwaaaa.....
*face palm*
Life is too great! I can't handle the greatness and I think I might have to fall apart before long.
My coworkers say I'm suffering from "honeymooning." They say my lack of home sickness is simply that I haven't registered that I'm not going home. OH! I've registered! Dude, I just signed a two year contract with vodafone (cell phone company) it better register!!
Anyway... I'm happy. I just wanted to write that.
oh... and this may come as a shock to you all- I love Japanese kids! They're awesome!

Okae, I've done it! Here's the blog I'm keeping for Japan: http://tsudagaijin.livejournal.com/
I'm keeping a separate one for a few reasons.
#1- It's more for family than anything.
#2- I'd rather start new.
#3- If people don't want to hear about Japan, they don't have to add that new blog as a friend.

See? Good reasons!

"You have blue eyes." She pronounced in proud English.
"I do." I replied.
"You have yellow hair!"
"I do." I nodded.
"Why do you have blue eyes and yellow hair?!" she asked in a voice threatening with confusion.
I shrugged, shoulders to ears, and gave a weak smile. "Because I wasn't cool enough to be born Japanese."
I don't think she got it word for word, but I think she understood my meaning, and that made her smile.
It's easy to make them smile. It's not even the kind of smile you get out of polite uncertainty, either. If they don't want to smile, they won't! I met a girl today who refused to smile ever. Not for pictures, not for anything. She was quite unsettling.
Today my office whisked me away to traditional Japanese sites with a group of students from Hokaido. I climbed a bajillion stairs (okae, only 1,200.) to get to the Konpira Temple- that was cool, but hot... yea. Everyone had soaked shirts by the end and I felt a bit like jumping into the ocean after that. Instead we went to Marugame Castle and trudged up these amazing slopes because crazy Japanese people have to build their castles on the highest point in the town... evil doers. It was still awesome and pretty, but my out-of-shapeness was starting to catch up to me. Then we went to the Seto Ohashi Bridge. Dude- whoa! That's a big fricken bridge. I got to stand under it and in it and... yea... having a train go over your head is an awesome experience.
Tomorrow we make udon and canoe and swim in the ocean. Yoshi!

... I feel like a reverse tourist.
I think I'll go home and take an ice cold bath. Mmmmmm.
I never really know what to tell you people in my momentary LJ opporunities, so I'm sorry if they're lame. Please let me know how everyone is back home!