I can listen to 89.3 The Current online. I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before. We’ll see how long I actually listen to the damn thing. These internet obsessions never last long, and I never was good at listening to the radio unless I was driving. The first photo is a view from the raised pedestrian crossing between the two tracks at our local train station, identified by photo number 2 as Hizen-Shiroishi. The blue building is supposedly a mental hospital. Cassie and I scared ourselves silly during the typhoon as we walked through the deserted, pitch black streets wielding only a flashlight and imagining that a bolt of lightning would soon illuminate a perfectly still, drenched with rain and quite scary recently escaped mental patient. Was that last sentence too long for you? Well, fuck off.

We just got typhooned. It’s name was Shanshan. This sign above has nothing to do with it, except that it says “abunai", which means dangerous, which is what the typhoon was. The rice field across the street is permanently bent out of shape, and this is why. The house rattled. The lights went out. We bought more candles and more wine at a candlelit 7-11 down the road. It was kinda cool. Also, I wrote another god damn song, if you can believe it. That noise you hear in the background? That’s the actual typhoon, making a guest appearance.

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photo info: blah blah blah shrines blah blah blah nature…

This song is a silly song. It came directly from fucking around on the guitar while looking at a tiny soccer ball I bought to throw at students. Yes. Students. School. Exhaustion. Boredom. A lot a lot of reading. More boredom. Confusion. And some more exhaustion. See previous post. I have thought this before and I will think this again, but I think I’m predisposed to laziness. I rarely want to actually do anything, but when I do do it, usually, I am glad that I did it. This applies to many things.

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This is kind of how I feel.

photo info: saying good-bye to the…temple…master? at the Inasa Jinja up top, saying hello to some other old cool shrine down below.

The weekend cometh, hurrah. I start actually teaching next week. I think I’m prepared for at least the first day. After that though, who knows. Gonna try to drive up to Imari today to see some pottery village thing. That’s one of the few things Saga’s famous for. Pottery. Wooo.

Yesterday I was invited to an enkai for all the men at the junior high school. I said, “Sure!” without even thinking about it. Then I remembered that I was gonna go out to eat with Cassie at the Indian place in Saga City. I was all prepared to work things out and try to do both, but upon mentioning that I had a date with my girlfriend planned for the evening, all the women in the teacher’s room freaked out and told me I had to follow through and that they would go tell the men that I couldn’t go out with them. So, problem solved. In other related news, all the women at the junior high school think I’m the coolest thing since sliced bread.