parasitegirl

When you leave a school they give you flowers, many flowers.

When I worked at the high school I always came back from the goodbye dinner with a huge bouquet. Drunk departing male teachers would send me home with their flowers.

There are 4 bouquets of flowers in my bedroom now. I only own one proper vase, and it for a single flower, so I've had to use coffee tumblers not suited for the purpose. The most difficult clustert to display has been the heavy orchids. Getting the balance just right so it doesn't tip over is a delicate game.

Also delicate are the inner workings of my mac laptop.

The combination of my unbalanced orchids and my petite mac are why I am now writing to you from a dingy manga-internet labrynth halfway between home and work. I can get my mac to start up in safe mode, but the keyboard is too fried to allow me to imput my passwork and continue

In a week my new, black, iBook with upgraded memory, apple care, and American keyboard with arrive on my doorstop and I will pay 241,011 yen in cash and unwrap it and figure out what I have backed up via super duper to my external ('and all my itunes stuff is stores externally as well, so no worries there) and what can be salvaged. Next week I may even have time to book a mac genius in Ginza..but for now I will be out of touch.

I'm rather impressed with mac support here in Japan. I was able to figure out what model I wanted yesterday mornign at this internet "cafe" and then later call, get the English helper, and order and arrange delivery by phone. I had the options of not only paying by card, but also doing bank transfers, a bill I pay at a convini, or the COD. COD is the swiftest method. The reason it'll take a week is that I ordered the upgrade and the American keyboard (a few keys are in different places on the Japanese board...if I wasn't getting the upgrade I'd probably settle for the Japanese keyboard).

And now it is time for me to pay for my 20 minutes of internet and board a tiny train to my city hall. I have my lunch, a slim thermos of coffee, and more of my Japanese study guides and English lesson plan items.

I rather like city hall...but you'd think that the men in water works had never seen a white woman before.