New Year, new stuff, new-s

I am procrastinating on doing the dishes, as my kitchen is quite cold these days, and I figured it was a good time to stop procrastinating on my blog.

Here to start the New Year is a bit of change to the layout of things. There is my fun new comment spot below my photo, and there is a new link. Yes, you read that correctly, it is a link to my online photos. I finally got over the fact that google can use my images with out asking, well not really over it, but resigned. So yeah, check out the photos, and hopefully that and my little comment box will keep me more entertained on this site.

Things here have been pretty good lately. I have recently started letting Kuno outside for extended periods of time. Her behaivour has greatly improved, and it gives me a chance to move quickly around the house without her always underfoot. She also has new cat furniture, including another freaking thing to climb on, and an electric hot pad bed. It is cold, and when I'm gone to work I feel sorry for her.

Speaking of work, things are busier than they have ever been. I am back up to a minimum of 20 classes a week (in a schedule of about 25 classes a week). That is more than most of the Japanese English Teachers at my school. I take it as a sing that they respect my performance and ideas in the classroom, but it comes on top of other growing duties at the school. I have pretty much become the computer guru, which is quite amusing. The computer club sponsor/network administrator now comes to me and asks me about things; Maruyama-sensei has had me do a number of projects for her, including the current one of assisting her in making a grad CD. They have collected the rights to some songs and are planning on burning a CD for all the staff and graduating students. I am really managing what they want, as well as doing all the imaging for the CD case and the face of the CD itself. That is actually quite interesting. One of the teachers has a new printer which is capable of printing on back of most new CDs. That being said, it is a brand new machine, and of course, I was enlisted to set it all up and make it start working properly. I am glad that I am there though, because I don't think it would get done at the magnitude that Maruyama-sensei wants if I wasn't. They just don't have the skills or the time to acquire them.

Other than that, it is just the same old of always wanting more hours in the day, and invariably needing more hours at night. On that note I should probably stop procrastinating on the dishes, so I can then make some food, since my stomach says it's dinner time and the clock says 8:30. Ugh the TV tells me it's -4 outside, that make it -3.9 in my kitchen.

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