Your killing time report

City Hall and the Milkman's Sister.

The Milkman's Sister has been gone for 3 weeks and isn't expected back for yet another week. I thought she was supposed to be only 2 weeks in the hospital...but it's a month. I think she got an ovarian cyst removed...but with the language barrier and the fact that my other co-workers are men..I really have no clue.

 

I am back to being mostly productive. I write a lesson plan a day (well, an E/J version and a J version) and at this rate I will finish the 5th grade lessons in a week or so...I am mildly burned out.

 

Teaching in real classrooms isn't going to happen until I am back from Seattle...in the last weekend of September schools will all be finished with sports days.

 

Food, money, body:

I've been budgeting my cash so that I can relax about it in Seattle and Portland...eat out and such. I will NOT be going to Fluevogs or clothing shopping anywhere but thrift stores on my trip....but on the 21st I might be visiting the closet of Alimah. I know that closet is full of Bellas in my size range (but a little taller).

 

I now carry a second "food money" wallet with my weekly food budget in it. It has "princess" stitched on it...thank you Daiso/100yen store.

 

Yesterday, I walked to the NGO and bought fresh eggs and grapes. The developmentally disabled workers enjoyed the hell out of one of their assistants practicing her English with me.

 

Today, I walked to the other tiny store with the table of locally grown items. I picked up gnarly red and orange peppers, red onions, onions, and tomatoes. I'll have to pick up some other items at my nearby grocery store (I get what I can as locally as I can...but sometimes I want to use recipes without altering them for Japan life or supply issues...and no one locally is making yogurt for me)...I'll also see if the Shin-Matsudo stand is still selling huge chunks of watermelon...a spicy watermelon cold soup might go well with my lunches.

 

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Your killing time report

City Hall and the Milkman's Sister.

The Milkman's Sister has been gone for 3 weeks and isn't expected back for yet another week. I thought she was supposed to be only 2 weeks in the hospital...but it's a month. I think she got an ovarian cyst removed...but with the language barrier and the fact that my other co-workers are men..I really have no clue.

 

I am back to being mostly productive. I write a lesson plan a day (well, an E/J version and a J version) and at this rate I will finish the 5th grade lessons in a week or so...I am mildly burned out.

 

Teaching in real classrooms isn't going to happen until I am back from Seattle...in the last weekend of September schools will all be finished with sports days.

 

Food, money, body:

I've been budgeting my cash so that I can relax about it in Seattle and Portland...eat out and such. I will NOT be going to Fluevogs or clothing shopping anywhere but thrift stores on my trip....but on the 21st I might be visiting the closet of Alimah. I know that closet is full of Bellas in my size range (but a little taller).

 

I now carry a second "food money" wallet with my weekly food budget in it. It has "princess" stitched on it...thank you Daiso/100yen store.

 

Yesterday, I walked to the NGO and bought fresh eggs and grapes. The developmentally disabled workers enjoyed the hell out of one of their assistants practicing her English with me.

 

Today, I walked to the other tiny store with the table of locally grown items. I picked up gnarly red and orange peppers, red onions, onions, and tomatoes. I'll have to pick up some other items at my nearby grocery store (I get what I can as locally as I can...but sometimes I want to use recipes without altering them for Japan life or supply issues...and no one locally is making yogurt for me)...I'll also see if the Shin-Matsudo stand is still selling huge chunks of watermelon...a spicy watermelon cold soup might go well with my lunches.

 

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