I haven’t been good at writing at least weekly lately. Partly because my weeks have been really busy lately, and partly because I have my PC here, and a girlfriend… so my sitting and writing time has been significantly lessened. If only I had internet access in my brain… I think up good posts in the shower or on my breaks… I just don’t have the ability to write them down at the time. Soon enough, soon enough…

So I feel like I have to write at least a bit tonight before I go to bed. Last week it snowed every single day, so by the weekend I was really excited! Tons of snow! It seemed as if Takefu was on a 7-day snow schedule for a long time… it snowed every single Friday night for all of January and most of February, and finally last week broke the schedule by snowing constantly. The snow here is nice and easy, not at all like in Philly. There’s more of it, sure, but you can push it off the cars with a single wipe. Even after 40cm of snow you could probably push it all off using a kleenex, unlike in NJ and Philly where after only 1 inch of snow it’s iced on so hard that you need a heater and an icepick just to clear your windshield.

Last week at work was a Counseling Week, which meant special bonus lessons this time. So I did two types of lessons: Business Communication, and New Years Resolutions. They were fun, but one of my New Years classes turned out to be… well… the absolute worst class I’ve had so far (and honestly, it’s hard to imagine another one as bad coming… but we’ll see tomorrow…). Worse than the kid puking milk and udon all over my carpet and fouling up the place for a week. Unfortunately, it’s bad enough that I really ought not to write it on a public blog, so I have to just leave it at that.

My snowy weekend was spent relaxing with Hitomi and Pi-chan and watching the snow fall outside. We watched a bunch of movies, and I got to introduce her to Saw and the Shining. (Speaking of horror movies, in my class today I did a lesson on favorite movies, and one of my students said that Ju-On was his favorite movie! Huzzah! That made me happy!)

Let’s see… beyond that, there’s not much new. Same old same old, really. I’ve been reading lots of books lately on my iPod touch, and I’ve been taking lots of random photos that I intend to upload at some point… but that will have to wait as it’s past my bed time. This week is also monkey-busy, and I feel like I might be coming down with a cold right now. (I had coughing, germy kids crawl all over me today like I was a big American jungle gym.)