JALT madness and cat sadness

Just got back from the overnight JALT retreat. A good time, and got a couple of ideas for classes.

Tiddles got jumped by the psycho cat about an hour ago, and got her leg messed up. I took her to the emergency vet who gave her a shot and said she'd be okay with rest.

Got to figure out how to catch the psycho cat. I figure she's injured Tiddles and Meekay about a dozen times, three of them serious enough to require a trip to the vet. Damn stray has cost me almost 20,000 yen!

I have this vision of a big box trap, with food inside and a spring-loaded door. I'll see what I can knock up this week... keep you posted.

Hello! Chickens

Long time no see. How are you doing? Keeping well? Good, good.

I have been BUSY. Got a new job, "educating" university students. It's great.

They're just like senior high school students, except that they listen to you, do their homework, and follow instructions. Fantastic.

However, it does take up most of my former free time. Call it an investment ;)

More pain

Going to the gym, the pain never stops! Onto the second round of workouts, and my arms and shoulders are a mass of aching flesh. If I wasn`t so high on endorphins I don`t know if I could keep this up ;)

Played poker with Adam and Matt today. Good times. Yuki was also getting into it, and she came third by a whisker.

University planning meeting tomorrow. A new thing to worry about. The seminar went pretty well on Friday, by the way.

Seizing up

My new weights routine is killing me: one step at a time. I now have three distinct workouts, and starting each one is basically unleashing a fresh round of pain on me. Only one more to debut, then I can work on getting used to them ;)

This seminar on Friday is starting to worry me. I normally have a much better idea of how the thing is going to go by this stage...

It was snowing again today. Snowing.

New site, new music, new life

Hey kids

Found some cool stuff: website called youtube.com, hip hop artist called Immortal Technique, and more happiness about where I work.

We had the leaving party today and it was pretty cool for once: managed to talk to a few people and had a good time. Maybe next year will be a good one...

Lots of work tomorrow, so have to drink my water and process the alchohol ;)

Jedi cat

Jedi cat, originally uploaded by sendaiben.

The felon herself (claws retracted at this point, she`s in stealth mode).

Death Cat

I just got jumped by Tiddles. After suffering numerous claw wounds to the forearm, I am now quietly reacting allergically. Ow.

In other news, it looks like CEC may not be heading for the fifty students we were hoping for... Despite our advertising efforts, we have so far only got one new student (and even she`s not fully signed up yet). This business lark is harder than I suspected!

Ben out.