Narita Update

I'm sitting in the airport outside Tokyo playing on my laptop.  There isn't much else to do.  Had a chicken sandwich and cuppa coffee.  I'm very tired, but if I take a nap here in the public lounge, I'm afraid I won't sleep on the plane, which would make the trip even longer.  I bought the movie "Ironman" and put it on my iPod to help pass some of the time.  The book I brought is only mildly entertaining.  There's still nearly two hours remaining for me to wait for my connecting flight to Detroit.  I hope it isn't a small plane.  The trip from Korea to here was only an hour and a half, but I was so cramped and uncomfortable that it felt like a lot longer.  Last night Robert C. brought his girlfriend to my place, and despite his promises to take her to a motel, they didn't, and I only got two or three hours of sleep.  He drove me directly to the airport in the morning, so that was nice, but I'm still peeved that he brought that woman along.

Well, I better get up and walk around before I fall asleep right here!  Update once I get to my sister's house in Michigan! 

The one where I sigh

Waiting for lunch at the school cafeteria.

Well, school is over as far as teaching goes. Now we're inputting grades and sitting on our hands waiting for students to complain about their grades, then we will be free to travel. There is a lot of bureaucracy when it comes to foreign teachers going to their home countries on vacation. I still haven't gone to the office to get my paperwork that will let me leave Korea and have my job when I get back. Maybe today.

Going to Seoul sometime this week to try to find a laptop case for my HP. It's a big laptop, and nobody around here sells them that big. Well, it isn't THAT big, but it still isn't a regular size, and it doesn't take long to learn in Korea that you can only buy regular and usual stuff in Korean stores. They don't even have stores for the unusual outside Seoul!

My cat sitter didn't show up again. Sigh.

The one where I avoided the dentist again

There you see in my shopping trolley, about $200 worth of stuff. Some underwear, some chicken brats, buns, Splenda, peanut butter, and a block of cheese. The underwear was the most expensive, but Costco is the only place I can get underwear that fits me. Korean stores only sell underwear for small people.
A second tooth broke last Friday, but I've been avoiding the dentist since then, because 1) it's embarrassing that two teeth break nearly back to back, and 2) the last dental work hurt like hell, and I want to avoid going through that again for as long as possible. I suppose Wednesday is a good day to go.
I compiled my final exam today. In the morning, I'll photocopy the two versions then set up for the interview exams I have to do this week and next. Why two versions of the exam? Because the students sit side by side; there is no room to separate them. So if they copy, they'll definitely get the wrong answer. It's better to guess than to copy in this case.
Tonight I teach in Second Life. The theme is Crime and Punishment. After the lesson, I'm taking them to a virtual prison to see a courtroom (the prison lock-up part is only open to role-players, not visitors). Then we're going to a CSI sim.

The one where I started shutting down

I deleted all my videos from YouTube last night.  I'll eventually shut the site down.  It only causes problems, and the videos aren't very interesting anyway.   I'll be shutting down Facebook fairly soon, too.  I've got over a hundred FB "requests" (those irritating applications) that I can't keep up with.  What I hear about "friends" is generic and impersonal, not what I had hoped at all.  People I tried so hard to locate and stay in touch with really don't want to stay in touch after all.  The lost contact was deliberate, it seems.  My blog on iWeb I'm going to phase out as well with fewer and fewer posts there.  Nobody reads it anyway, and paying a hundred bucks a year for a Mac account isn't really worth it when Google is free.  It's just one of those times, a time to pull it in and regroup my resources and try to build up a charge again.