I didn’t think this moment would come. Relief. Last month was a big hairy arse with warty boils. Thanks to my pay being reduced after the short hours of summer I had to live very carefully, which meant eating less, which meant me being grumpy. However, I did a good job of not showing it at work. As usual, I have an excellent supply of masks. Then, when I got money, I was running around making sure it went to the right places and I got what I needed with it. That exhausted me. This week, things have gone back to normal activity wise but I’ve been feeling like I’m still coming down from the stress of last month and the tiredness. So, after feeling shitty, it was nice to sort out my finances this evening, at last. I can live comfortably now, plus I have the choice of saving 20-30,000 yen a month or blowing it on a trip to Tokyo one weekend or something. It feels good.

So, where as this morning I wasn’t sure if I was going to just stress out at work and shirk my responsibilities, this evening I’m feeling better than I have in ages. And I almost got sexually harassed by  the cute English teacher, if rubbing chalk off my backside could have counted as such. I don’t think it is if I give her permission.  She ran off anyway. She’s in a bad mood with me because I never give her any “Matt Money”. I’ll make up for that one day.  And I got the news that one of my best friends has fallen pregnant! So congratulations to you, Jot. I can’t wait to play “Uncle” haha. Who am I kidding though? She has so much family I won’t be able to get a peek in.

So yeah, this week. I managed to get some lessons organised. I’ve been teaching, after what felt like another long hiatus even though it was only a week or so and I have been teaching the second grade. I haven’t done that since before summer. It’s nice because I hardly know them, so it feels new.

Tomorrow is Halloween. I like Halloween, because, despite it being largely an Americanized holiday, it celebrates the supernatural, which is my bread and butter in the literary world. So I’m all for it. I still have to sort out a costume, but I have a party to go to on Saturday. I wanted to make a Jack Skellington costume, but I might have to settle for buying a plain ole skeleton suit. I’ve always wanted one of those full body skeleton suits that have the painted (I think) design. All the ones I’ve found nowadays have stupid, cheap looking plastic glued onto them. Ah well, I’ll have to see what I can pick up on the way home tomorrow.